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Agree that far more people were killed on roads years ago. Seatbelts especially have made a huge difference to the toll.
The irony of that story is that it is the author's generation that has created the children of today...
My mum kept me on a pretty tight leash growing up, but I can relate to some that stuff. Once I reached my teens, we (my brother and our friends and I) would go skating all day every day.
These days kids need to be in a safety seat until they are SEVEN. What's next, kiddie seats until they are teenagers? Is the underage road toll realy rising so much that kids need to be in a seat that long? This is going to cost us rather a lot of money on a larger car very soon now as we have a small, economical car and the blasted kiddy seats don't FIT in it, so we really do need a Government enforced upgrade to a SUV
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle...
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
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Also roamed the streets underground in the drains...used to be the quickest way to school and the place for "initiations" to occur....yep..real gutter rats...LOL!
Roaming around the streets with .22 rifles & slug guns slung over shoulders...but for some reason not on Sundays....?
I remember that from the late 70's and early 80's....
Except niether our b & w or colour tv, think it was 82/83 when a colour one, definitley did not come with a remote.
In fact, I think the first remotes which I can remmber where connected by cord to VHS players.