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5 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I had multiple arguments with my wife about our son's behavior when he was in elementary school.  He was (and is) a very good kid, but he was a typical boy.  My wife freaked out when he climbed a tree.  A tree.  I had to explain that boys climb shit, they wander, they throw rocks at each other, sometimes they fight, but the odds are in the kids' favor.  

I don't know if parents are becoming overly protective or if kids just aren't pushing the envelope as much as we did, but it certainly seems like something has changed.

Good on you for sticking up for Jr. The term boys will be boys isn't meant to defend asshole behavior, but to say hat they are gonna do stupid and difficult things for no other reason but "it's fun." 

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My parents and myself would still be in prison for the shit they let me do, and the shit I let CHIEF Jr. do. A lot of the rural kids in my childhood neighborhood all had motorcycles, so I warted my Dad enough that he bought me one in 3rd grade. We had our own motorcycle gang, with some of the kids being older (junior high). About ten of us would ride county roads out to about 15 miles from home, rain or shine, light or dark. We were usually back by dark, since most everybody rode dirt bikes without lights.

CHIEF Jr. had our golf cart to cruise around with his buddies at about the same age. You are supposed to be at least 16 to drive one in our neighborhood. He knew all of our security guards and pretty much talked him out of ever getting a ticket. He would drive it over to his best friend's house and pick him up, its easily 6-8 miles away, but in the same subdivision. After the HOA started cracking down on kids on golf carts, I would just let him drive my Jeep Wrangler over there, he was maybe 12 by that time, and it was a manual.

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12 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

My parents and myself would still be in prison for the shit they let me do, and the shit I let CHIEF Jr. do. A lot of the rural kids in my childhood neighborhood all had motorcycles, so I warted my Dad enough that he bought me one in 3rd grade. We had our own motorcycle gang, with some of the kids being older (junior high). About ten of us would ride county roads out to about 15 miles from home, rain or shine, light or dark. We were usually back by dark, since most everybody rode dirt bikes without lights.

CHIEF Jr. had our golf cart to cruise around with his buddies at about the same age. You are supposed to be at least 16 to drive one in our neighborhood. He knew all of our security guards and pretty much talked him out of ever getting a ticket. He would drive it over to his best friend's house and pick him up, its easily 6-8 miles away, but in the same subdivision. After the HOA started cracking down on kids on golf carts, I would just let him drive my Jeep Wrangler over there, he was maybe 12 by that time, and it was a manual.

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Letting a 12 year drive a jeep alone is fucking insane. If you got arrested for that I’d have no issue with it

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6 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Letting a 12 year drive a jeep alone is fucking insane. If you got arrested for that I’d have no issue with it

He lives out in a pretty rural area, albeit there's a "neighborhood."

I was driving a ranch truck, including on county roads and whatnot, when I was 12.  My mother was driving an old beater to school and around town when she was 12, in Alice, TX.  Cops picked her up one day, she didn't have a license, swore she was 16.  Cops brought her to the door, grandpa answered, cops says "she's driving around in a car, says she lives here and she's 16."  Grandpa looked at her and the cops and said "if she says she's 16, she's 16," and signed the ticket.  BTW, that grandpa is the same dude who gave me free reign with the ranch truck.

Shit's a little different when you're not in the big city.

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

He lives out in a pretty rural area, albeit there's a "neighborhood."

I was driving a ranch truck, including on county roads and whatnot, when I was 12.  My mother was driving an old beater to school and around town when she was 12, in Alice, TX.  Cops picked her up one day, she didn't have a license, swore she was 16.  Cops brought her to the door, grandpa answered, cops says "she's driving around in a car, says she lives here and she's 16."  Grandpa looked at her and the cops and said "if she says she's 16, she's 16," and signed the ticket.  BTW, that grandpa is the same dude who gave me free reign with the ranch truck.

Shit's a little different when you're not in the big city.

I don’t see anything wrong with it on a ranch or farmland. On roads where there’s other cars or kids potentially playing, people walking, that’s pretty reckless. 

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Didn’t know the Dodgers played in Atlanta. 

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15 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

My parents and myself would still be in prison for the shit they let me do, and the shit I let CHIEF Jr. do. A lot of the rural kids in my childhood neighborhood all had motorcycles, so I warted my Dad enough that he bought me one in 3rd grade. We had our own motorcycle gang, with some of the kids being older (junior high). About ten of us would ride county roads out to about 15 miles from home, rain or shine, light or dark. We were usually back by dark, since most everybody rode dirt bikes without lights.

CHIEF Jr. had our golf cart to cruise around with his buddies at about the same age. You are supposed to be at least 16 to drive one in our neighborhood. He knew all of our security guards and pretty much talked him out of ever getting a ticket. He would drive it over to his best friend's house and pick him up, its easily 6-8 miles away, but in the same subdivision. After the HOA started cracking down on kids on golf carts, I would just let him drive my Jeep Wrangler over there, he was maybe 12 by that time, and it was a manual.

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My sons frequently would roam around by themselves or with other friends on their dirt bikes as kids starting around 10 years old. My middle school daughter uses her ATV to go to her friend's place.

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56 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Ugh.  I was at a soccer match next to Old Settler's in Round Rock when a kid got run over and killed.  We were probably 1/4 mile away, but could see the whole first responder action.  It was so depressing.  We're watching our kids run around and kicking a ball, and a parent nearby was trying to process the death of their toddler.

My nephew almost got hit by a big lifted truck in a parking lot. Like Jesus Christ, you don’t need to overcompensate for a tiny penis so badly you might not see or even feel hitting a 3 year old 

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13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

He lives out in a pretty rural area, albeit there's a "neighborhood."

I was driving a ranch truck, including on county roads and whatnot, when I was 12.  My mother was driving an old beater to school and around town when she was 12, in Alice, TX.  Cops picked her up one day, she didn't have a license, swore she was 16.  Cops brought her to the door, grandpa answered, cops says "she's driving around in a car, says she lives here and she's 16."  Grandpa looked at her and the cops and said "if she says she's 16, she's 16," and signed the ticket.  BTW, that grandpa is the same dude who gave me free reign with the ranch truck.

Shit's a little different when you're not in the big city.

Same, I learned to drive a truck (stick shift) at 12 years old. All of my sons did as well. My daughter started last year but in an automatic. Obviously not in the city but on the family ranch and rural roads.

"Free range" in rural areas is very different than in the city.

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3 minutes ago, F250 said:

Same, I learned to drive a truck (stick shift) at 12 years old. All of my sons did as well. My daughter started last year but in an automatic. Obviously not in the city but on the family ranch and rural roads.

"Free range" in rural areas is very different than in the city.

My dad had me out bushhogging the pasture when I was 12.

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11 minutes ago, F250 said:

My sons frequently would roam around by themselves or with other friends on their dirt bikes as kids starting around 10 years old. 

Yeah, I lived in a small town but we had a ~ 20 acre undeveloped lot maybe 0.25 miles away.  We would ride our dirt bikes on city streets back and forth to that lot multiple times per day.  Cops didn't even care.

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Same, I learned to drive a truck (stick shift) at 12 years old. All of my sons did as well. My daughter started last year but in an automatic. Obviously not in the city but on the family ranch and rural roads.

"Free range" in rural areas is very different than in the city.

For sure. My Old Man had me hauling a cattle trailer with 14,000 lbs. of cattle to the Meridian sale barn in a 1979 Ford F-250 with him following me with another load when I was in Junior High. I probably had at least 50,000 miles worth of driving under my belt when I got my hardship license at 15. Things, and places were just different back then.

My old High School still has an "off campus" parking area for kids that drive to school without a license (have to have a license to drive on campus). If you are going to play sports, especially during "two a days",  as a freshman you are going to have to drive, or have a parent pick you up and drop you off.

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31 minutes ago, Js1 said:

My nephew almost got hit by a big lifted truck in a parking lot. Like Jesus Christ, you don’t need to overcompensate for a tiny penis so badly you might not see or even feel hitting a 3 year old 

The driver was jealous of your nephew’s penis.

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23 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

For those younger kids not lucky enough to have a local porn fairy leaving porn hidden in the woods, or behind convenience stores or in the ceiling of the 6th grade boys bathroom, stall #2, the SI Swimsuit Edition was a crucial part of our childhood.

You sonovabitch, I was looking for all that for weeks.

To the topic, I would tell my mom I was going "out" and then ride my bike all over to do some dumb shit. Plus, video games weren't on every screen yet, but the Handy Andy had one right near the entrance.

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2 hours ago, CHIEF said:

A lot of the rural kids in my childhood neighborhood all had motorcycles, so I warted my Dad enough that he bought me one in 3rd grade. We had our own motorcycle gang, with some of the kids being older (junior high).

We had a Big Wheel gang.....we'd have fucked your shit up.

One kid had a Green Machine.  He was obviously the leader

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I was the youngest of 5 kids (two older brothers and two older sisters) and had lots of autonomy.  When I was around 8, the family decided we were going out of town for the holidays. The night before we left my brothers and sisters were acting like a bunch of assholes and I basically told them to fuck off and went to bed by myself. Woke up the next morning, and boom: the house is completely fucking empty. They left without me. Had the place to myself for 3 days.  Hijinks ensued. 

 

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3 hours ago, Helobious said:

Letting a 12 year drive a jeep alone is fucking insane. If you got arrested for that I’d have no issue with it

You would be arresting a metric shit ton of folks in the country for that type of driving.  Lots of times local LE knows, but it's accepted as long as the kids aren't being idiots.
Virtually everyone is driving tractors, farm trucks and shit when they can reach the pedals, maybe not as much today as when we were kids.  You knew if you fucked around the beating would be worse than actually getting caught.  Oh wait.  Arrest my mom before she beats my ass!!!  That Jeep would be just another vehicle to drive over to neighbor's place 1/2 a mile a way.  It really was no big deal.  A lot of folks still do it.

Now let's talk boats.

and after that, guns.

It was a MUCH different world back then.

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My grandmother always swore that my Dad's oldest brother was plowing fields with a tractor before he started grade school. As she got older, he kept getting younger in her story. He finally got so young that I asked her how many acres he could plow before you had to stop him and change his diaper.

But these boy's parents really take the cake. It's like their parents wanted them to leave and never show back up again. But, they were Okies so I'm pretty sure common sense was out the window:

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42 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I was the youngest of 5 kids (two older brothers and two older sisters) and had lots of autonomy.  When I was around 8, the family decided we were going out of town for the holidays. The night before we left my brothers and sisters were acting like a bunch of assholes and I basically told them to fuck off and went to bed by myself. Woke up the next morning, and boom: the house is completely fucking empty. They left without me. Had the place to myself for 3 days.  Hijinks ensued. 

 

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46 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I was the youngest of 5 kids (two older brothers and two older sisters) and had lots of autonomy.  When I was around 8, the family decided we were going out of town for the holidays. The night before we left my brothers and sisters were acting like a bunch of assholes and I basically told them to fuck off and went to bed by myself. Woke up the next morning, and boom: the house is completely fucking empty. They left without me. Had the place to myself for 3 days.  Hijinks ensued. 

 

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1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep, always. They could do bad ass turns. I wish they made those for adults.

On my street we "big kids" would hijack the little kids' Big Wheels, and while we couldn't sit in them, we could stand on the back, get some speed going, then KICK the Big Wheel at its target, usually another kid on a bike.

When we weren't back in a vine-choked mass of brambles, cutting tunnels with machetes.

The tunnels were part of a "fort" system that we would test by convincing the little kids to get inside, then we'd shower the area with railroad track rocks.

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2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Funny you used that GIF.

It was a Star Wars video game that took every quarter of my allowance each week at ol' Handy Andy. I did save a few to spend on candy from the Winn's around the corner.

Was it this one? Winn's another name I haven't heard in a long time.

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We had a beach house up in Oxnard from the time I was like 5 years old.  Starting around maybe 7, I would spend the entire day at the beach, climbing the rocks at the jetty, going to the little corner store with my $0.25, and all manner of fucking around with absolutely zero parental supervision all day, and never a fuck was given.

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10 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

On my street we "big kids" would hijack the little kids' Big Wheels, and while we couldn't sit in them, we could stand on the back, get some speed going, then KICK the Big Wheel at its target, usually another kid on a bike.

When we weren't back in a vine-choked mass of brambles, cutting tunnels with machetes.

The tunnels were part of a "fort" system that we would test by convincing the little kids to get inside, then we'd shower the area with railroad track rocks.

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19 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

Bingo. Just the same two or three levels over and over but I thought it was the most incredible thing ever to "fly" an xwing.

Winn's was my weekly sugar dealer.

Also bought my first BB gun there.

Did Winn's buy out Wacker's? We had one in Cleburne. I remember saving up my $14.99 to buy a Thundershift 500 to sling my Hot Wheels around an oval track. Two lanes so you could race your buddies. Someone would always start to get behind and sling it so hard it would go airborne and leave dents in the sheetrock.

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2 hours ago, Deej said:

Back when I was a kid, the adults were driving so hammered with us kids in the car, it would have been better if us kids were driving. 

Every time I have a scotch it brings back a warm memory of the car having that warm smell from the roadie in the front seat on the way to Friday night dinner.

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12 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

We had a beach house up in Oxnard from the time I was like 5 years old.  Starting around maybe 7, I would spend the entire day at the beach, climbing the rocks at the jetty, going to the little corner store with my $0.25, and all manner of fucking around with absolutely zero parental supervision all day, and never a fuck was given.

I will pick on you because you are an outsider.

But, (JOKINGLY ASSHOLE EMPHASIS), aren't you the poster boy for American priviledged society norms. Sounds lovely though.

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For sure. My Old Man had me hauling a cattle trailer with 14,000 lbs. of cattle to the Meridian sale barn in a 1979 Ford F-250 with him following me with another load when I was in Junior High. I probably had at least 50,000 miles worth of driving under my belt when I got my hardship license at 15. Things, and places were just different back then.
My old High School still has an "off campus" parking area for kids that drive to school without a license (have to have a license to drive on campus). If you are going to play sports, especially during "two a days",  as a freshman you are going to have to drive, or have a parent pick you up and drop you off.
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My Pa Pa taught me how to drive his old column shift truck down his local bumpy roads outside Leona (~79). I was barely tall enough to push in the clutch. He just said don’t worry, as we won’t need to go past second gear.

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16 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

On my street we "big kids" would hijack the little kids' Big Wheels, and while we couldn't sit in them, we could stand on the back, get some speed going, then KICK the Big Wheel at its target, usually another kid on a bike.

When we weren't back in a vine-choked mass of brambles, cutting tunnels with machetes.

The tunnels were part of a "fort" system that we would test by convincing the little kids to get inside, then we'd shower the area with railroad track rocks.

I assume you forced the survivors to bury the ones who died. 

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