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September 29, 2005, 5:09 am PDT

rose colored glasses...

Quote From: susanlp03

Whatever happened to the old fashion ways of having fun. It really is a shame that these days for teens are as hard as ever. I have a teen and just hope between work and school, she just doesn't have time to do something so stupid. My heart aches for these parents who have lost children.

I'm not advocating this in ANY WAY whatsoever, but I had to comment that when I was a teenager, the thrill that the other kids were doing was: 

  

1. seeing if you could cars passing by with rocks (or snowballs) -deadly for the drivers and passengers! 

2. jumping off of bridges into water below where you only have a small clearance of the rocks hiding just below the water -still very popular 

3. I heard of some kids hammering 2x4's into the road under the snow to see if snowplows would flip when they hit them 

4. And even some kids (and a famous comedian) admitted to jumping of the back of a moving truck into a hay bale/ water/ whatever. 

  

As a matter of fact, my friend has a boy scout handbook from (I'm estimating) the 40's or so that simply scares me with the types of things they were advocating (how to create man traps, for example, or how to twist the necks of animals in such a way as to kill them). 

  

So what I am saying is that today's trends are horrible, but the "good old days" isn't necessarily what we want, either. 

 


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