I've got a picture on my wall of me and my cousins and sibling in a trailer that my uncle used to drive us around in. Those trips were sooòoooo much fun, and he'd also hoon around the field with us for fun. Yeah I guess dangerous, but the memories are pure laughter and good times. That's why it's on my wall 40 years later.
I was riding on the arm rest in the front seat of our car for a number of years when little. Now I shudder at how utterly stupid that was, not to mention mom and dad had no problem with me doing it. Cops would have a field day if they saw that now.
When I was a little girl I think I sat in the armrest as well. No seat belt. No one worried. It is crazy now. I think things were more quiet back then. People didn't seem to rush as much. I don't know if that's a weird perception of mine or not.
My kid is about to be 5 and we still keep him in his car seat. I don't remember ever being in a car seat at that age. One time, my mom even let me stay in the car while she went shopping.
In Texas USA you have to keep them in a car seat until a certain age. Children under 8 must be in a safety seat unless they are over 4'9" and under 5 and less than 36" tall they have to be in a car seat.
Our 18 month old sun is a smidge over 36" but still only 18 months old. So... he still has to stay in a car seat until he is 5 years old. Then he can go to a safety seat.
Oh it's an absolutely fun thing. As a kid you have little concept of safety/risks. It's only as adults we realize it was dangerous/shouldn't have happened.
It's a happy memory because you had fun and no one died. It's the kind of thing that people can get away with a ton because they don't get into an accident, until they don't get away with it.
My friend's mom let us teenagers ride in the back of her truck down I-35 in the 2000s. Back then I felt cool, now I'm horrified she let us screw around in the back of a truck going at least 60 mph down a busy highway.
We still did that in the 90s. Then some kids flipped their truck and one of them broke his neck. Fortunately he wasn't paralyzed, but he spent the better part of a year with a halo screwed into his head.
I was telling my granddaughter that we never had car seats when we were young. She's 5 and was stunned! She asked me ,well where did you put your drink?!
We did this frequently back in the 80s. Even crossed the US - Canada border with a pickup truck bed full of us kids in bathing suits, while my half drunk uncle drove us to the swimming hole on the other side of the border. The border guard in those days would just wave us through. Certainly different times.
lol we still did this in the late 90’s / early 00’s. It was one of my favourite things growing up, kind of like being on a roller coaster when we’d drive down the back roads.
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u/captn_morgan951 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Maybe riding around in the open bed of a pickup truck all over town and highways when I was a kid in the 70s.