Bouncing Kids and Pick-up Trucks

@DaddyEvil (137762)

• United States

26 Feb 21

@TheHorse Did you ever ride a sled behind a pick-up? When I was a kid our neighbor got an old hood off a car and dragged it behind his truck in the snow while all us kids rode on it.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

27 Feb 21

@DaddyEvil I did not have that experience. But it sounds like it would have been fun. Are we still allowed to do that?

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 21

These were the good old days.

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CarolDM

@CarolDM (203422)

• Nashville, Tennessee

26 Feb 21

I remember many times riding in the back of an old truck on a dirt road. Even on the tailgate sometimes. Good ole days. What a happy shot here.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 21

It was the same in Montana this past Summer, right after I got the truck. The kids of a family I was visiting "demanded" I drive them around Maiden MT in the back of my truck. Little joys, for both the kids and grown-ups involved. "Just don't put your fingers between the bed and the cab," just like I heard XX years ago.

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CarolDM

@CarolDM (203422)

• Nashville, Tennessee

26 Feb 21

@TheHorse Right! Keep your handing inside the truck. So cool to fee the wind on your face.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 21

@CarolDM I'm glad I had those experiences.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (69136)

• United States

26 Feb 21

Maybe they’re not used to seeing an open space in a vehicle! City kids, y’know.....farm kids can drive a pick-up by the time they’re six.

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

Really? Blink..you are not serious.

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

@TheHorse Gosh..you should be sent to prison.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 21

Heh heh. Horse Jr. has been driving around the parking lot with me for years.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (61709)

• Centralia, Washington

26 Feb 21

You bring back Idaho days. We sometimes were brought to the main road on a tractor. Colder than toothpicks in the winter, we were delighted to get a ride in the back of a truck. Forty miles to our cabin but at least we got there.

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

As a child I rode a truck once. Nothing so ..Elephant a couple of times, horse once , camel once. Elephant and camel were fun because back in those days, buildings were not that tall.

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Kelli M

@spiderdust (14760)

• San Jose, California

26 Feb 21

It's like a mobile trampoline!

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 21

Yeppers, that's how the kids see it. I'm am done with work for today. I wonder if I'll be driving the sprouts around later today. Kids don't forget promises.

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

Oh oh..if the jump too much they gonna fall out..

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Kelli M

@spiderdust (14760)

• San Jose, California

28 Feb 21

@vandana7 Yes, but then they pick themselves back up and climb in again. I don't think he'd let them bounce while the truck is moving.

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Simone

@Janet357 (75646)

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26 Feb 21

you really love kids. If that pick up was my husband's, he would never let those kids jump there.

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

That and his music make him a great friend. You have not come across situations when he needs real spanking.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Mar 21

@vandana7 You need to stop thinking about my tush so much. I will bare it to you in full color, so you can see it for what it is, and hope you can return your mind to more appropriate thoughts.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 21

How come? There's not much damage they can do!

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Notlilie

@prinzcy (32305)

• Malaysia

27 Feb 21

I never ride on a moving pick up truck. It's illegal to do that. But you're right about one thing. Kids can turn anything into toys. It's the matter of being creative.

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

I would have kinda thin fabricated cage like area..so that it becomes something like a room with required opening for kids. That way no fear of accidents. Otherwise, an adult must sit with them. I am kinda overprotective person.

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Tina Dalasinski

@Tina30219 (82066)

• Onaway, Michigan

26 Feb 21

Me and my sisters use to ride in the back of our dads pickup but it had a topper on it. Where I live now people ride in back of pick up trucks but we don’t live in a big city we live in a small rural area no cops here unless the state police are driving through

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Tina Dalasinski

@Tina30219 (82066)

• Onaway, Michigan

26 Feb 21

@TheHorse I enjoyed it when we got to do it

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

27 Feb 21

@Tina30219 Me too. I don't yet hear the kids outside. If I do I might "mysteriously" appear.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 21

Yep, we still do it sometimes when we're in the mountains in Montana.

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Greg

@xander6464 (44433)

• Wapello, Iowa

26 Feb 21

I used to ride in pick-up beds, too...I wonder when it became dangerous.

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Greg

@xander6464 (44433)

• Wapello, Iowa

27 Feb 21

@TheHorse That sounds like a lot of kids.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

27 Feb 21

@xander6464 Tragic, isn't it? Especially when the population of those two states combined is about 2,000,000. I'm in tears. Have to go.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

27 Feb 21

@xander6464 Sipping some now. Can't believe those states have been robbed of all of their beautiful children.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (108347)

• Marion, Ohio

27 Feb 21

All kids seem to love trucks. Monster is easy to contain in the bed of a truck

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

@wolfgirl569 Do kids sit without troubling and getting bored for that long? Here, our kids are not that well behaved..many of them. I would get ulcers thinking what they are up to. LOL

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@vandana7 (100632)

• India

28 Feb 21

How long have you driven in those trucks? How many hours at a stretch?

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (108347)

• Marion, Ohio

28 Feb 21

@vandana7 I have a pickup as my only vehicle. We have been in a truck 4 hours one way at times except stopping for gas. And then had to get back home too.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317315)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

26 Feb 21

I agree. There's just something magical about kids and a pickup truck.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (182154)

• United States

27 Feb 21

Great photo. It's good that kids enjoy playing creatively rather than with electronic technology.

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@TheHorse (220408)

• Walnut Creek, California

27 Feb 21

I agree. Sadly, there are some electronic "garbage toys" at the preschool were I've been helping my friend out. I don't use them when I'm playing with the kids.

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Kezia Riska Riyanti

@RiskaR (44)

• Indonesia

8 Mar 21

ooh you were right, everything is a toy for kids.. my kids did the same way too..

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