Disobedience ...

I know exactly what you mean and I agree with you 100%. I was thinking today about the things we could do 60 years ago when I was a kid that you can't do now. I bought my first car when I was 13 years old. It was a 1931 Model A ford coupe with the rumble seat. I paid $35 for it and hauled hay all summer to pay for it. I drove it anywhere I wanted to and was never stopped and asked for a drivers licenses a single time. You could hunt and fish without a licenses about anywhere you wanted to even on private property if the owners knew you. Anyone 16 or older could get a drivers licenses and didn't have to take a test. You didn't have to have insurance on a car to tag it or proof you had paid your personal tax. There was no sales tax on a used car to get a tag. You could spank your kid's bu** and it was no ones business but yours. There are a million other freedoms we have lost a little at a time over the years. They say a lot of it is safety but we were a lot safer then than we are now and had a lot more security.

Hi Guybrush, I will come and rebel with you, this is crazy a park is for doing all these things, I saw an open air swimming pool that basically said the same no balls, no splashing, no food or drink inside the fence area the works and I thought what ever hapened to people playing and they wonder why kids get bored these days. I can understand a dogs on leashes one in certain areas but not all and not banned completely. In our local park the childrens swings and slides section has cattle type grids around it to stop dogs getting in to that bit but they are allowed to run free, there is a skate park and also a lovely green area with a pond and lots of tress and the only rules are pick up after dogs and pick up litter, bliss. This is how it should be eh! Huggles Ellie :D

I guess there's safety in numbers? . Give me the simple life here in the bush. It's the same old story mate...the few spoil things for most others. Sad but true.

The last time i looked parks were free and for the people..so let me join you and lets see what kind of stink i can raise..what is it for just show like some model home???

whoo hoo if this is the kind of discussion your posting bring 'em on more more. I'm definately up for it!!! it's like that here no playing ball, you have to have the gardens like this, no doing this, no doing that, blah, blah, blah. Had a guy from the council calling every day this week about some questionaire survey they want filling it apparently it's extremely important! He's about 12 he's asked on several occasions if i'd like him to run through it with me, it's very simple. (i refrained from slapping him) Apparently living on my estate and being in during the day means i'm unable to read or comprehend anything hes saying. I've politely told him my hot water tap and broken glass in the door is extremely important to me and i will hand to completed questionaire to the workmen when they come to complete the jobs. I read it and it's asking how much i earn, how many hours i work, what i do for social activities, what my religion is, how many hours i spend online, doing what, where, when, my inside leg measurement, what colour knickers i'm wearing. I'm with you i just wish they would all feck off!!!!! Life was so much simpler when i was a lass *reminisces*

I feel your pain! But it feels like everyone around me is so much worse, and when I do something that is kind of bad but not really hurting anyone, I don't feel guilty anymore! I think, also, that the world is getting more touchy with lawsuits and such. Parents don't let kids climb trees, all sorts of little things. What happened?

I hear ya guy...I am right behind you.

I understand. And with Obama as President, we'll have even more government intervention. Who wants that?

Want a company? Maybe we can do something WILD. LOL. Here in my country however, there is no much of these restrictions though, we can still experience "fun" up to these days, the problem with our parks here sometimes, instead of viewing it as a place of relaxation at times, it becomes cheap place due to some 'unwanted case- business' to say, but not all.

Are you sure kids wasn't on that sign, too, and marked out? Doesn't sound much like a park I'd want to go in. Most parks allow bikes that I've been in. They just have specific places to be in the park. And what is wrong with taking a kite to the park? I thought parks were to enjoy myself.

Sadly, I think many of these "rules" are for liability sake. If they allow dogs and the dog bites someone, the city/county could be sued for it. Stupid, but a reality anymore. I agree that it's ridiculous, but I'm sure that is why they do it. Sometimes I'm amazed that playground equipment is still there!

guybrush ,i'm sorry for that i cannot agree with your point of view,i think you must study suiting the society, you canont make the society suit you.

Oh, I sooo hear you! I have been saying that for the longest time now... I will join you in your fight.. lol

Disobedience is a sin,some time what we call sin might be a divine obedience to the will of God.The evidence of love is obedinence,It very important for us to know that it is good to obey our parents ,our leaders and those that are of higher authority.The rules or command given to us by our leaders are not to desroy us but to save guide us in the journey of life