If you’re reading this and your birthday is pre-1970, you’ve already won…
You’ve been through some crazy experimental and neglectful shit in your time and the fact that you aren’t wearing a permanent pair of crazy pants means you must be evolved or something!!!
Here are some “normal” things from your childhood that are actually insane…
17. Hair care was very, very different.
16. Car seat technology looks like a big joke.
15. Everyone had very interesting ideas about orange juice.
14. Smoking on planes was a fun thing to do in those days.
13. Ice cream was the true breakfast of champions.
12. This seemed like a reasonable thing to touch your face with.
11. Advertisements offered helpful tips on how to suffocate your baby.
10. Salad came in fun shapes.
9. Gunpowder toys were fun for the whole family!
8. But not quite as much fun as playing with hot metal and molten plastic
7. Lead was literally everywhere, all the time.
The July 1904 edition of Sherwin-Williams monthly publication reported that lead paint was “poisonous in a large degree, both for the workmen and for the inhabitants of a house painted with lead colors.” But who cares about workmen and your home inhabitants.
6. This hairstyle alone could drive you to drink.
5. Everyone agreed that helmets were silly and unnecessary.
4. Asbestos! Very pretty!!!
I’mmm dreaming of a white…carcinogennnnnn.
3. Exercise meant standing still while a machine jiggled your butt for you.
2. Drinking and driving? NBD!
1. The draft!
Young men were basically either in the jungle getting shot at or at home doing drugs in a field.