Name a safety device they have now that we didn't

[gizmo1979]

I'm always amazed that we survived as kids.No helmet for bikes.All the old playground equipment is gone all unsafe.No safety caps on drugs.We had nothing and we survived,not to mention no AC.

[SmokingJacket]

1. It's because of the kids who didn't survive that we have all that stuff

now.

Except for the AC.

[Orangepeel]

11. excellent point. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Car seats

and seat belts.

[Left_Winger]

7. I can remember when I was a child of about four or five

I would stand up on the front seat next to my mother while she was driving. This would be around 1960.

[Lars39]

3. Washing machines, believe it or not.

Toddlers sometimes fell into scalding hot washtubs. :(

[Donkeyboy75]

4. The ubiquitous *WARNING* labels.

Seems like walking out of your house is dangerous. Apparently take-out coffee can be lethal. :eyes:

[CanuckAmok]

12. A friend of mine has a '00 Jetta, and...

... there's a warning label on the door-jamb: "Caution! Edge of door is pointy".

[Donkeyboy75]

21. That's really really sad.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

33. LOL!

That's great!

[Blue Diadem]

5. The electric outlet covers and the cabinet/door locks

My daughter had the door knob covers when my granddaughter was a tot. I had a heckuva time opening the darn doors to go outside!

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Not only no hemlets on bikes, but no knee and elbow pads on skates...

I still have the scars from where I erased most of the flesh from my knees when I was nine.

[gizmo1979]

28. Did you have the skates with metal wheels.

[Spider Jerusalem]

34. No metal wheels...

Plastoc (I WAS born in 1977, so metal-wheeled skates would've been a bit of an anachronism...)

[Wcross]

8. When I was a kid my dads car didn't have seatbelts. n/t

[samplegirl]

16. Not to mention

any parent could pile the whole neighborhood into the back of a
pick-up.

[sakabatou]

9. By we you mean what time in the past?

[Deja Q]

10. I can think of only one thing right now...

Condoms.

:yoiks:

[WCGreen]

14. Condom have been around for thousands of years....

Why do you think they call them Trojans....

Duh,

Seriously, Birth Control Pills

[Deja Q]

15. Man, I must be angering people left and right today.

Maybe I will just leave.

[WCGreen]

17. Dude, I forgot the sarcasm thingy

:hide: :sarcasm: :hide:

I love these little thingy's

Does that make me gay. Not that there is anythig wrong with that

[baldguy]

13. When I was a kid we had Jarts.

steel-tipped mini-javelins. perfect toy for children.

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[Dervill Crow]

20. OMG, they're really called Jarts!?

I thought it was just crazy Pittsburgh talk for darts. My husband told me he and his sibs played with these.

Must go apologize to him, but honestly, they do talk funny in Pgh. No offense to any Pittsburgher DUers out there.

[SoCalDem]

26. We still HAVE~ ours.. in the original box

:)

[gizmo1979]

30. Wanna sell them?

[SoCalDem]

31. How much?? We wiped all the blood off and they were only

used a few times :evilgrin:..Probably not since 1977..They have been in Indiana, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and finally California.. they are well-traveled Jarts:)

[gizmo1979]

32. I think they go for about

100 bucks on E-Bay

[SoCalDem]

36. I found that out.. WOW.. I posted a pic of my set

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3723708&mesg_id=3723708

[gizmo1979]

29. I love jarts! broke my last steel one last summer.

[Enraged_Ape]

37. Jarts (lawn darts) were the best game EVER

I was working in a sporting goods store when these things got recalled. I remember carrying our last few sets into the stockroom to send them back. I was almost in tears. I was too poor or I would have bought them.

Seriously, it would take almost a master's degree in stupid to injure yourself or anyone else with these things, but leave it to your average American to find a way to use them to send someone to the hospital.

I can't tell you how much fun I had down at the park with these things, the scent of burgers barbecuing on a grill nearby, the "snap"s of opening sodas and beers, the sounds of children laughing all around. Those were some of the happiest days of my life.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Baseball helmets

In Little League you just brought a soft cap and a glove to the field. I got hit in the head a couple of times and the team manager basically just patted me on the butt and sent me on my way.

[datasuspect]

22. plexiglass

steering wheels that don't impale you.

countoured plastic dashboards instead of angular steel ones.

[I Know How To Do it]

23. Do not stick wood burning apparatus in eyes.

[evlbstrd]

24. Pretty much all of them..

Our car was all steel, no belts or restraints. And all of this antibiotic shit. Me and my siblings agree, we were steeped in raw sewage, and rarely get sick.

[datasuspect]

25. i used to take car keys

when i was three or four years old and put them in the light socket.

i was playing "car."

[Dogmudgeon]

27. Helmets for kids on bikes

I had a friend who rode his bike without a helmet.

He was hit by a car, and died of massive head injuries. (This was around 1971.)

The driver was DUI and did minimal prison time.

--p!

[xmas74]

35. I know that I didn't have a car seat.

I played w/ plastic and I have heard that I used to sleep in a dresser drawer.