Gen X was probably the last generation of feral kids.

I remember one boring humid summer day where me and my mates, most of us 8-10 years old spent the day trying to put leeches on girls, or touching the electrified cattle fence for shits and giggles.

One day some guy laying water pipe didn’t know where the street was he needed to be on. So we all climbed in the back of his van to show him. Afterwards he gave us the the leftover pipe which we turned into a race track for our toy cars, and blow pipes to fire rocks at girls. Ahhhh the summer of 1989. That Xmas I got a Commodore 64…

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Yeah we have survived quite a bit of stuff that would probably fill our Grandchildren with terror if they knew about it. 😬

Lead in paint.
Asbesdos in walls.
No seatbelts in cars.
Teachers smoking in class.
Corporal punishment from either parents or family or school or even just random grown-ups giving you a clip around the ear if you were cheeky to them !
Cheap travel so we took busses and trains to nearby places but our folks wouldn't know where we were.
Accepting lifts from strangers in their cars.
Crossing canals via the locks.
Crossing railway tracks.

It's a wonder there are so many of us still around.