Re: Childhood pastimes are increasingly moving indoors

[n5hsr]

Bill,

Send them out to the Renaissance Faire sometime.

I may be mistaken but didn't pedophiles get taken care of by parents? We
almost had one 30 years ago in a little rural town. He flashed my sister,
who was all of 8 at the time and her friend who was 9. Well, they came
running home from the park (a whole block and a half.) and my brother, who
was 14 at the time, took off after him, then Mom started calling all the
neighbors and most of the men took off after him. I wasn't there, I found
out about the incident when I got home from work. There were a lot of
farmers around that area, so a lot of the men were home.


The old Schwinn Racer I rode from 1969-1980 may not have been fancy or
lightweight but it did its duty and my sister still has it. We had
scooters and pedal cars, too. Get rid of these battery powered things, make
the kids use their legs and their mind. Does anyone make a pedal-powered
car, or was our '64 1/2 Mustang the last one?

And quit trying to make everything totally safe for the kids. We can't put
padding on every tree in the country. Teach them that they:

1. Had better respect authority.
2. Actions have consequences.

Let them learn this early before they get to be 16 and start driving and
still think they're immortal.

Charles of Schaumburg

[Bill]

n5hsr wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Send them out to the Renaissance Faire sometime.
>
> I may be mistaken but didn't pedophiles get taken care of by parents? We
> almost had one 30 years ago in a little rural town. He flashed my sister,
> who was all of 8 at the time and her friend who was 9. Well, they came
> running home from the park (a whole block and a half.) and my brother, who
> was 14 at the time, took off after him, then Mom started calling all the
> neighbors and most of the men took off after him. I wasn't there, I found
> out about the incident when I got home from work. There were a lot of
> farmers around that area, so a lot of the men were home.
>
>
> The old Schwinn Racer I rode from 1969-1980 may not have been fancy or
> lightweight but it did its duty and my sister still has it. We had
> scooters and pedal cars, too. Get rid of these battery powered things, make
> the kids use their legs and their mind. Does anyone make a pedal-powered
> car, or was our '64 1/2 Mustang the last one?
>
> And quit trying to make everything totally safe for the kids. We can't put
> padding on every tree in the country. Teach them that they:
>
> 1. Had better respect authority.
> 2. Actions have consequences.
>
> Let them learn this early before they get to be 16 and start driving and
> still think they're immortal.
>
> Charles of Schaumburg
>
>
My first and only experience was when I was 16 years old and hitch
hiking home from school. A guy picked me up and after a few blocks made
a very lewd 'queer' fruitcake suggestion to me to go off with him and do
XXX activities. I just said "Pull the car over Faggot, or I'll grab the
wheel and you can buy a tree and the cops will have your sorry ass.".
That was my second year in California, and back then gay was the good
old time the Flintstones were having, hence he was a queer, fruitcake,
faggot, by the terms of the day. Unfortunately I didn't think enough of
the incident to take down his license and report him since I wanted to
haul ass over to my girlfriend's house.
Now I wish I had since who knows what else this guy may have done.?.
I forced a pullover but some 12 year old may not have been so lucky.
Now I feel guilty, 42 years later.
Bill Baka