Whether it was the front seat of your mom’s station wagon or her bicycle, chances are, you were entirely untethered. I should also mention that, not only were there no seat belts, child seats were nowhere to be found. The only “click” heard in the 1970s automobile was your dad’s Bic lighting up a smoke with the windows rolled up. Of course, you’d have to fish them out of the deep crevice of the backseat cushion where they often came to rest, unwanted and ignored. Goodbye Jart – you were an impaling arrow of death, but I loved you anyway.Ĭars came with seat belts in the 1970s, but no one used them except maybe out of curiosity to see what it was like to wear one. I suppose it needed to be banned, but a part of me is sad that kids today won’t have the battle scars and Jart survival stories we had. If they happened to land in your skull, well, then you should have moved.Īfter roughly 6,700 emergency-room visits and the deaths of three children between 19, they finally outlawed Jarts on December 19, 1988. Parents of 2014 need to be reminded of how less restricted, less supervised, less obsessively safety-conscious things were… and it was just fine.Ĭan your mind comprehend a more deadly toy than a weighted spear that kids hurl through the air like a missile? No one ever obeyed the actual manufacturer’s rules, we just flung these damn things everywhere. It’s not that they cared less – they just didn’t worry compulsively about it. Back in the 1970s (and earlier), parents didn’t stress about our health and safety as much as they do today. The way things are going, every kid is going to go to school wearing bubble wrap and a helmet.
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