Must Have Been A Beer or 12 Involved

Reddog1 wrote:

languiduck wrote:

Reddog1 wrote:
Actually, we were more creative and less concerned with the sky falling back then. No need to weigh it, cause we were going to haul it anyway. Personally, I totally ignored the door stickers then, as did all of my camping friends. We did not have air bags, not required to have helmets while riding a motorcycle, it was common practice to have passengers in the TC while traveling. We actually even drank the water from the TC tank.

That's crazy talk!

Not at all. I question any value in an in-depth discussion, but I will stand by my statement. Depending on you age, you will find as time progresses, we tend to think we have too be dictated to by others for various reasons. There was a time, we were responsible to think and be responsible for ourselves. As time passes we tend to think the sales people and attorneys literature is the only truth. Simply stated, one size does not fit all.

Each one of us work off from a knowledge base. Sometimes it is from experience, sometimes from research, and ideally from both. My preference is both, with the understanding that experience usually will be more valuable than theory. In my opinion, a sales person or attorney typically have little to no experience on a given subject that that they were educated in.

Agree! The older I get, the dumber the younger generations get. It still blows me away to see so many so willful to surrender their independance and let federal laws and yuppy activist groups strip away our ability to be self thinkers expecting everyone to embrace their values and so many blindly don't care. I do miss the days of skinny dipping in the creek, drinking wAter from that same creek, and having parents that taught us there are always reprocussions for our actions, both good and bad. And some times those wrong actions resulted in a very bad discomfort on our little sassy butts. Those experiences taught us to be respectful of authority, and to take responsibility for our actions istead of blaming everything else in the universe for our stupid and irresponsible behavior. Divorce,being involved in any kind of legal lawsuit, having children outside of marriage,sexual freedom, all carried a scarlet letter of embarrassment that no one wanted to carry. These were social stigmas that no one wanted to carry. Today, if someone is going through something like that, it's a badge of glory! You end up on a talk show, or worse, Jerry Springer, and somehow are proud of abandoning any kind of self controlled behavior and morality.

Give me the days before the internet. Life was much more clearly right and wrong then. I'll take that camper and truck any day. They will both probably outlast my current rig.