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That's awesome!

The visual of ur story is amazing..I can see it all..what a time we lived in

Good all days 😁😎

AWESOME....WITH YOUR SLED OR ON IT... THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

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Nay Dorsey --That slide memory was the best, those slides were great and we’d use sand to make them faster.

I like this guy

Why can’t we have great delivery in hip hop/rap songs anymore? Seems like everyithing else provides you with high quality entertainment except current rap music.

Me: I laughed too much and so hard during the whole set 🤣! You: What's too much? My body: my ribs hurt, I peed a little, tears was rolling, my stomach muscles started burning, my teeth kept flopping down but best of all I turned my spare tire into a 6 pack.

Amen.

That sounds awesome m

Your not lying! We used to sit in the bed of the truck on the way to the beach, or just about anywhere.

Tying a string across the street at night and watching people screech to a halt 😁

Been there ...DONE that.... 53 Buick.

We used to fight to see who got to ride in the back of the station-wagon. CO and rear-enders be damned.

I was #100 👍

Yes indeed! ‘Rub some dirt on it!’ is the best parental response to childhood ‘misadventure’. I broke my left wrist twice, my right wrist once, my left leg once and my right ankle once. I’m happy, healthy, generally well adjusted adult. And I loved every minute playing outside as a kid.

Thdxbll3 that’s what my dad says when a football player gets hurt and he used to tell me that as well

I've said for some time now that if you don't have at least one visible scar from childhood, you probably weren't doing it right.

You bet @SoK ....... we used to hear from my parents, and we said it with our kids ..... "the bone isn't sticking out, get back in there!" LOL.

"You don't need yo use 4 letter words to be funny." - Red Skelton.

That is one of the standards at the Drybar comedy club.

Amanda H tether ball

@@timpoferl5405 thanks ! Sleep deprivation sucks for memory ! I loved tether ball!

Amanda H born before 95, I was born in 58. I remember, great times. So glad I'm not a kid today. Today it's all about safety, forget about the kid being a kid.

Amanda H yes I remember those slides hurt and burned like a mother

@@TravisGinther ooowee they sure did ! My brother had 2nd degree burns once. They had to bandage him up like a mummy !

Garson Hedrick weee papa weee papa 😂 I’ve been on those steel slides he’s talking about 🤣

I was born in 74' also, and I can remember it like yesterday those darn sliding boards that were super hot in the summer. We had a sprinkler at my playground and before we would try to use the slide, we would go into the sprinkler, get really wet, and go down with our towels under our bottoms! We did have the black "safety foam" squares put under the swings, slides, etc. But in the summer, those foam squares made the play areas really hot! Then when we were big enough to go in a public swimming pool, we did just that or go to a friend's house that had one of those nice swimming pools that you can fit on the front porch or lawn. And the car seat I remember was a lime green colored small chair-like device with metal bars/padded arm rests that there was a certain way to be strapped in. When me and my sister were infants, Mom would sit in the backseat holding us with a lap seatbelt only. And those pleather carseats in our 73' Buick LeSaber which were black were super hot in the summer that when wearing shorts, it was pure torture! Eventually Dad got the red fabric seats put in which were awesome! Those were some awesome years me and my Sissy had growing up together! I really feel bad for kids that have to grow up in today's world, especially if their parents aren't teaching their children by God's order. A lot of kids today are not reared to know Christ and how important it is to be rooted in Him at the age they are able to understand what He is all about. If God is present in your lives, it makes living a lot better. Jeff knows! Nice video that brought a smile and chuckle when I needed it most. Thanks Mr. Allen for the trip down memory lane!! ❤❤😝😝

Idk where you live in the country but if you ever make it to Independence, Ks, (about 30-40 min from the Oklahoma border, I think) go to Lion’s Park. They still have the old stuff! There’s a structure that has 4 old metal slides that have got to be at least 12 ft high. Can’t remember for sure. They’ve installed new stuff, too. But the old stuff is still there. For a town in the middle of nowhere, it’s actually a really cool park! There’s a little zoo and a nice pool, too.

Agreed, I would not trade them either. I am another person who was a bleeding, scraped up kid in the late 1970s and I am glad I grew up when I did. Good times for sure and I can relate to your story about kids getting knocked all over the car. Of course! Been there! :D

Ya riding on that "shelf " on the back window was the best. Rode up there until I was too big to fit.

Yep, another 70's child here. We had a big Ford station wagon that had these two hidden fold up seats in the very back that we 3 kids took turns riding in on our vacations. I don't remember ever wearing a seat belt as a kid, though I could have used them in a couple of the car wrecks we had over the years. We also used to ride in the back of my dad's (or just about anybody else's) pick-up when we went to town. No thought given to the danger. Kids today are prisoners to their parent's fears. It's a shame. We have a thing called "free range" for certain animals, but not for our children anymore.

Fremen1971 We also rode in the back of everyone’s pickups back then and we also eventually got a “wood paneled” station wagon. It also had the 2 fold up seats in the back AND it came with a table that we could set up between them. It had a magnetic checkers board and magnetic pieces to use on it so they wouldn’t slide around while the car was moving. Those were the days. As far as today’s kids, they’re all sickly all the time. I don’t remember any kids being treated for ADHD back then. No peanut allergies, no gluten issues and definitely no dairy sensitivities. I think parents today hold back certain foods from their kids and make them wash their hands every time they touch anything...to the point where their bodies don’t have the ability to fight off certain things or become sensitive to those foods. We drank out of the hose in the backyard, walked around barefooted outside, picked berries, apples, etc...and ate them right then...no washing them off first. Our immune systems are much tougher for it. I’m rambling and probably not making much sense, so I’m gonna stop now. lol

Nah, you're not rambling at all. Just stating some truths and indulging in a bit of nostalgia with us.

Freedom! Mom said go out and play in the morning and sometimes didn't see us until dark. We used our imagination and had the best time of our lives!

You cant handle vulgarity

It really is.

*Tony Tobit* It’s that everybody else is vulgar and his style different but still funny.

Totally agree Bike Maurice

@@tonytobit1446 - Does it take some kind of maturity to handle perverse talk? What you can't handle purity? Your easley swayed by the norm? Any fool can talk with vulgarities.

Ha ha, we are the same age and I totally get what you mean!

Growing up was risky! 😁😃

@Vera Grig Amen!

That's exactly right. and you stop a bully by standing up to them.

@@michaelhill1256 I'm 73, STILL working on it. :-)

OOOOOOOLLLLD!!!

We used to throw sand on our slide to make it slicker!

So fun! Burns and all.

Funny, yes, but TRUE!! I survived....barely....

, wax paper and cardboard baby😃

The ones in Centralia WA were wavy. So it was eee-Drop-eee-Drop all the way down. About 35 feet high

@@oneloveonelife2221 "wax paper and cardboard baby" The greatest combo ever. We used to keep them in the back of the car in case we came across one of the old great slides. Alas... they're all gone now.

Kelly Penrod l am 62 too, and l want my Canada back as well. When was the last time you saw a kid with scabby knees? Didn’t we all have scabby knees about nine months out of the year?🤓😷🇨🇦

It will never happen with electronic toys😢

Hey what’s good

Black and white t.v. no remote control,yes rotary dial phone 8 track tapes no vcr,a lid or a baggie ful not quarter ,half or ounces , old cars that were safe no unleaded gas no seatbelts

What city did you grow up in Mike? My sister had those steel wheeled skates with the key, etc. She was born in 69' and I was born in 74'. We had one of those Pong games that you could only play on a black and white TV. Then came Atari! I don't recall the make and model of the Atari we had, but it was one of the most awesome game systems, and then Intelevision, Activision and Coleco vision systems followed. Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-man, Pitfall, etc. Those were the good old days!!

They were torture if you were in the backseat and the drunk driving adult driving the car you were in cut someone off. The evil looks you got, with no escaping! I was once in Hungary with my diplo brother in law cutting everyone off. The car had the diplo plates so all the Hungarians were cursing my niece and I stuck in that back seat!

@@mgmail7279 whats diplo?

@@johnw2026 Oops, sorry - diplomat.

YAAAASSS

Those were awesome. We used to fight over who got to sit back there. The rear window was power so mom used to run it down for us so we would get all the exhaust fumes. It kept us quiet on long trips.

Our mother said if you need stitches, I’ll stitch you up otherwise just come in the house and put some peroxide and don’t go to sleep if you hit your head to hard.

What about internal bleeding

Wax paper IS the trick for metal slides....I can remember bringing large pieces of it to school to slick the slide up...good times ❤

Your Dad is awesome!! I hope you have been able to remind him of that famous day he brought home that monster slide. Cool!

MontagZoso, it has probably been 30 years AT LEAST since I last used that slide. I suppose every day between then and now has been an opportunity I’ve failed to take. Today I took that opportunity, thanks to your comment. I even found out where it came from! Thanks!

@@Pb-ij4ip happy for you!

Cool Dad!!!

But here's the thing: kids nowadays are going to tell their kids how their parents let them out of the house like the Michelin Man and how lucky they are to still be alive

We used to line up the kids in from of the swings and see how many people we could jump over flying off the swings. My buddy tony and I were always going back and forth with the record until I had 12 kids in my line and the yard supervisor said that’s it. We did put a mark on the ground where the last kid ended and I jumped just to see and I would of cleared him

Wow! I was just going to say the same thing. We would ride in the back of his Datsun pick-up, on the interstate, heading to the stock car races, and of course he'd always have a beer between his legs. That was the 70's.. Right or wrong, that's the way things were.

Kids with a pickup truck or a fast car were always the most popular. You could put 6-8 teens in the back with cooler hidden under their legs and cruise all night. I remember riding with my father-in-law in the 90’s and he saw a truck full of kids going down the road and he exclaimed, “Call the cops, that’s dangerous!” My jaw hit the floor. Our dog jumped in the bed every time I cranked the truck; he thought it was his truck. He rode hind legs on the bed front paws on the roof of the cab and nose in the wind. When we got to town he guarded the truck. Never taught him any of it, that was what he decided was his job. I loved that dog and that truck.

I used to fill the bed of my 64 Chevy stepside pickup with hay and take my six kids for rides on country dirt roads while drinking quarts of Budweiser and smoking a bowl.... with credence Clearwater revival playing on tape...... good memories!

I rode in the back of our pickup truck with sleeping bags to go ice fishing with my cousins in the middle of winter in Canada. We had a blast! I feel sorry for kids today, society has trained them to be afraid to live. We got dirty, sweaty, scraped and bruised. You were so cool if you got stitches! We camped in the backwoods behind our house in treehouses we built ourselves. We only came in when we got good and hungry. I am glad for my childhood.

Jack Dupp that’s great! We went to the races riding in the back of a ‘68 Chevy pickup a few times. I was only 10 years old!

I'm only 32 and still have the scars from flipping over the handlebars! Mom put a bandaid on and back out I went! Lol

"You OK?" -- Yeah. *laughter* "Dude, that was so cool!"

i remember when i was like 5, not long after training wheels came off my bike riding around, there was a speed bump on the street that was abnormally steep so i did wheelies on it. well one day that wheelie got a little carried away and turned into half a flip. handlebars landed on my throat, seat on my berries, full weight of the bike right on me. had no one around so i had to get up and walk myself home. was on that bike the next day, still no pads. learned to not do wheelies so high anymore

@@juliarobinson1432 Bandaids cured everything!

Wow!! Sounds scary!

35 and amen !!!!

Yeah!!!!!!!

My goal was for my mom and dad to never find out. I didn't want the spanking that I knew would come. Hahahahajaha

I remember this barbie that came out when i was lil and of course i thought it was cool bc it had roller blades and had these sparks that came off it... It's the first toy i remember being recalled... I think... The news showed this barbie going thru gas on cemet and catching on fire... I remember being like "who is doing this w their barbies!?!?" lol xoxo

I am 36 & experienced all the things he mentioned! I just told my kids about falling off a raised bank onto river rock gravel in a kindergarten playground & busting my forehead open. The teacher had to pull pieces out of my skin amidst all the blood, but we went back out to play a few days later just being more careful.

You got arms! Gee, your parents cared. I got my father's cigarette ashes blowing into the black window when he flicked them out the front!

@@mgmail7279 You're the first person I've heard of that experienced that too! Sometimes those ashes were still hot, oww! 🚬

Its called "thinning of the herd". Only the smartest survive

Frankenstein lives you mean like going to the park ten houses away at the end of the street with just your friends ALONE without hovering mommies armed with purell? Before Covid of course! Age 62 😷🇨🇦

We had crab apple and walnut wars...they stung when they hit, but they weren’t lethal..and We rode horses bareback ....without helmets....Girls playing 🏑 field hockey...we were vicious...we didn’t have shin pads..I still have divots in my shin bones ... and I lived...it just made me more crafty and faster on the field! They would call us FREE RANGE kids now...unsupervised by parents .....because we were allowed to walk to the corner store, go to the beach, or the park or school by ourselves to play...( swimming, frisbee, crab apple wars, tackle football, soccer , baseball, broom ball ..whatever..., ) ...as long as we were home by 6:pm for supper...we were good. When the street lights came on..you GO HOME...AND GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY was every mum’s motto!

We had a sledding hill called Garbage hill, there was the bunny side the medium side and the suicide, it was great, took my kids and nephews there also.

Oh, you mean the America before the boomers ruined it. Yeah cool

It started turning right after his generation so kinda seems like it was also his generation that thought it was dangerous and started changing statutes and legislature 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

58 here. Ahh, good times lol.

Same here ! BEST ERA !!

AMEN!

You don’t miss what you had until it’s gone.... And SO MUCH IS GONE.

Max Hughes I hear ya Max. Saw the same thing happen at my kids place.

bored kids are dangerous. They never think about that though.

Kids at our school aren’t allowed to wear scarves in the winter...choking hazard. Apparently frostbite and hypothermia aren’t that dangerous in canada🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🤔😷🇨🇦

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I imagine that recess kind of feels like a prison yard now.

I'm 27 and from a small town, relate to every word :)

Katherine Hamar I guess the small towns didn’t adopt the technology as soon. We have really taken away a lot from life for the next generation(s)

@The TacomaKid agreed!

Needs a new agent!

Born in 83. I remember those 6 story slides that melted your skin in the summer. Wouldn't want it any other way, kids these days think fun is sitting infront of a tv. Fun back then was you didn't come home til the street lights came on or you heard your mother yelling out the window

I'm from 84 and was born in Brazil. Take everything he said and add some snake hunting through the bushes, climbing the highest trees and making friends with monkeys until they become your personal pet and that's what we lived. My baby brother at 2 years old once found and hided a small coral snake in a shoebox for days to play with until mom found out and freaked out. Yes, a very dangerous mortally poisoned coral snake as a toy for a 2 years old. And today's kids are afraid of cockroaches and just see animals in the zoo...

94, still did all that 🙌🏽

I agree. I grew up in the 80’s and we had a lot more freedom then. Plus if you got hurt your parents would just tell you to walk it off.

Atari was the beginning of the end of friends playing kickball and wiffle ball and tackle football on the snow covered streets..

You won't be disappointed! !!

Me too! I love good standup so I’m not sure where he’s been hiding all these years but I’m glad I found him.

His line about teenagers being God's "revenge" is epic.....see how you like it to create something in your own image and have it ignore you all day!

Claire Friend I've listened to him a lot.

dart318swinger: Funny you should mention "Old Coke"! That stuff actually had cocaine in it as an active ingredient. Then Coca Cola Syrup came out for when we had stomach bugs!

Malisita Fox oh yeah we had one on our playground. It was so much fun to play on those and the big old wooden merry go rounds. Kids today missed all the fun stuff

Hey what’s good

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So true.

The Brownsville ... they are so protected that a lot of them don't even look up from their cell phones when they're walking across the street when they get off the bus .. They just automatically assume no car is going to run them down .

We would write signs for the people driving behind us to read.

Thomas Hughes You forgot the 10foot plastic sheet from army supply when you tied an 8foot cord from each corner to hold on to. A good 30-40mph wing gust would melt those petals right off, but you got home early from school!

Yep, I still remember speeding down the hill on our street on top of one of those old school skateboards at age 9 (circa 1970s), with zero padding or helmets or any of that stuff, which was not a thing back then...and crashing face first at the bottom of the hill, picking gravel out of my face, limping back up the hill, getting BACTINE sprayed on my bloody cuts by Mom, who of course did not blink an eye. Builds character! I love it! And yes, hot metal slides that peel your skin off in summer when you sit on them and the slide was about a mile down and just as high. Ah, memories! :D I would go back and do it the same way in a heartbeat.

Yeah, I remember those metal wheels. Don't hit a good size stone in the road or you'll make it to the bottom of the hill before your skateboard.

Awesome, I did that with my sister! Cardboard and a staircase, good times! No brother shutting the door at the bottom to mess with us, but...that would have been okay too. ;)

Thanks to that old Louisiana chef who used to be on telly, I read your last line as "I gar-rowan-tee".... Good to know some freedom for fun still exists!

Heaven is following a creek through the woods.

Take notes snowflakes

@@joevicarious2615 Yes, take notes snowflakes! 1970s kid. Yes!!

Me too

Yup. Mom's got ya. I remember one time, my dad took a left turn in his VW bug and I slid against the passenger door, which apparently I had not shut fully. The door swung open. I saw the passing of asphalt which to me was a really cool perspective... and then my dad reached over and pulled me back in. Pretty cool to be small enough to not even see out the windshield and then suddenly be parallel to the road. The door then slammed shut after dad made the turn. Must be one of the many reasons I like to ride a motorcycle because every so often, I look down at the pavement passing quickly beneath me & I am simply in awe at the speed. Good times.

Kevin Roberts l was driving my mother home and l had to brake suddenly and she still flung her arm across me. I was 43 at the time😄😷🇨🇦

@@missg.5940 👍😉😁

Or sharp gravel! :D

Yes

Ours had asphalt paving

If you were lucky but that was the fun part

Don't forget the goatheads and other thorns. Getting that in the hamstrings sucked...but it made us stronger.

Yes it was!

Deep Cycle Garage never needed sunscreen 😭

I just laughed so hard when I read this that I started snorting!

superior to chemical sunscreen lotions, which they found out cause cancer!

That's horrifying! This country is so messed up... mainly due to the lawyers and the corrupt politicians. And also the media and education system that have been brainwashing people for decades.

David, that's bigger than I am. Wonder if I can sit in the front seat to drive.

Can you imagine a boy picking up his prom date and her mother says "don't forget to move your car seat to his car."