On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 07:20:40AM +0100, Chris Mitchell wrote: > I sometime wonder how our parents and grandparents made it through > life with all the health and safety hazards that there were. (and > that's ignoring the effect of 2 world wars of course).
I think we can thank a lot of our improvements in safety to the lessons we learned in the process of so many people who didn't make it through life. Be that as it may, I am ever so glad that I'm not growing up now. So many of my fondest memories are from doing things that are practically felonies these days: Riding to my best friend's family's cabin in the back of their pickup truck (which would not have been nearly so fun in the winter without the camper shell). Some of the games I played with magnesium shavings, sodium chlorate and such back in high school would have me shipped off to Gitmo as a terrorist. Being a small kid, by today's laws, I'd be required to ride in a kids seat until I was in eighth grade. I probably would have died of embarassment. The list goes on. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
