My Dad let us sit on the bonnet of the car while he drove.

Chuck Stone

Does that make him an evil man?

hatrickpatrick

On the contrary, he sounds like the biggest f*cking legend EVER!!!

Dudess

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Does that make him an evil man?

No, that was great fun. It's only frowned upon now because of political correctness gone mad!

phasers

Depends, how fast did he go?

BBDBB

not at all


if he couldnt afford windscreen wipers what else was he supposed to do?

earpiece

And you've been chucking the stones you peeled from your face ever since!

peckerhead

Pffft. We sat on the roof. :rolleyes:

Aoifey!

Aww, I never got to sit on the bonnet. I feel so unloved.

Chuck Stone

I has to say that it was at the beach so it wasn't that dangerous - we probably would just have broken a coup[la bones but not died because it was the olden days

Abi

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Does that make him an evil man?

Nah. He just makes Britany Spears look like a model parent.

Hasmunch

Unless the bonnet of the car is his nickname for his penis then that man sounds like a legend

hondasam

My dad liked us so let us sit in the car. When he was drunk we drove and put him on the bonnet.

Keith in cork

No, he sounds like an epic man.

My grandfather has 14 children. This means alot of grandkids. In the early 90's he used to bale us all into his car and head to the pheonix park for lash of figure of 8's.

Lets just keep him and your dad apart before some children strapped to jets become a common occurance.

Chuck Stone

Abi wrote: »

Nah. He just makes Britany Spears look like a model parent.

I bet my Dad would beat your Dad up in a fight though? :pac:

Kiera

I see the fun police are still up.

John Doe1

Im phoning the police now mr.stone, soon you will be in a loving home:)

Keith in cork

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I has to say that it was at the beach so it wasn't that dangerous - we probably would just have broken a coup[la bones but not died because it was the olden days

Children never died in the olden days. Hence the amount of crooked looking midlifers we see now with serious mental issues.

Abi

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I bet my Dad would beat your Dad up in a fight though? :pac:

He'd scatther your aul fella all over the road :pac:

Chuck Stone

Aoifey! wrote: »

Aww, I never got to sit on the bonnet. I feel so unloved.

It's a real non-drug rush I assure yo=ou Aoifey. S'mad buzz.

Kiera

Keith in cork wrote: »

Children never died in the olden days. Hence the amount of crooked looking midlifers we see now with serious mental issues.

That's from eating chewing gum off the ground. :P

hondasam

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I bet my Dad would beat your Dad up in a fight though? :pac:

Abi wrote: »

He'd scatther your aul fella all over the road :pac:

My dad would beat the shi* outta both yer dads.

Coriolanus

I remember doing that too. The aul fella had a Defender and we'd sit on the bonnet while he drove down a 30-40 degree slope. When I think of it now it's mad that none of us ever slipped off the front...

Abi

hondasam wrote: »

My dad would beat the shi* outta both yer dads.

My Da wouldn't get a look in with your aul fella tryin' to bend Chucky's aul lad over the bonnet :pac:

Chuck Stone

Nevore wrote: »

I remember doing that too. The aul fella had a Defender and we'd sit on the bonnet while he drove down a 30-40 degree slope. When I think of it now it's mad that none of us ever slipped off the front...

That sounds fantastically dangerous exciting!

amacca

Abi wrote: »

My Da wouldn't get a look in with your aul fella tryin' to bend Chucky's aul lad over the bonnet :pac:

allo allo allo...sergeant killjoy of the fun police e-division responding to an after hours call out...what seems to be the trouble here?

Chuck Stone

When I grow up I'm gonna let my kids sit on the bonnet while I drive so they can have them buzzes the health and safety brigade want to deny them.

Yep.

Abi

amacca wrote: »

allo allo allo...sergeant killjoy of the fun police e-division responding to an after hours call out...what seems to be the trouble here?

Oh... did it make you clench your arse cheeks :pac:

hondasam

Abi wrote: »

My Da wouldn't get a look in with your aul fella tryin' to bend Chucky's aul lad over the bonnet :pac:

Hey that's a family secret, he is still in the closet.:p

Cee-Jay-Cee

My dad used to let me steer the car from the passenger seat when i was about 10 or 11. I would sit at the edge of the seat, no seat belt, one hand on the dash the other on the steering wheel. I was even allowed to steer as he passed out other cars. Grant it that was back in the early 80's..things was different way back then :rolleyes:

We were also allowed to sit in the trailer which was unsprung, we could have bounced out at any stage but hanging on was all part of the fun!

amacca

Abi wrote: »

Oh... did it make you clench your arse cheeks :pac:

with respect ma'am the cheeks of an h-officer in the fun police are always clenched in preparation for all potentially fun h-eventualities:pac:

Derfil

Sounds like a lot of fun your Da. My 11 year old daughter drives around the Curragh whilst I hang on to the roof of the car. If she can knock me off by pulling a handbrake turn she wins 20 bucks.

Chuck Stone

CJC999 wrote: »

My dad used to let me steer the car from the passenger seat when i was about 10 or 11. I would sit at the edge of the seat, no seat belt, one hand on the dash the other on the steering wheel. I was even allowed to steer as he passed out other cars. Grant it that was back in the early 80's..things was different way back then :rolleyes:

Yeah?

I was a child of 5 children who used to struggle for elbow room in the back of a car that was held together with tape on 300 mil;e drives from Cork to Derry. It's amazing I haven't been completely destroyed, mentally and physically from those experiences but here I am.

connundrum

I would completely put a downer on this thread by telling about the time my mam let me sit on the bonnet.

But I won't, because the stubbs where my fingers used to be are now crying.

Chuck Stone

connundrum wrote: »

I would completely put a downer on this thread by telling about the time my mam let me sit on the bonnet.

But I won't, because the stubbs where my fingers used to be are now crying.

I have it on good authority that no child has ever been hurt from sitting on the bonnet of a car at the beach...






.....cept little twisted-spine Jimmy

JonathanAnon

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Does that make him an evil man?

only if he then drove at speed before braking at the edge of a cliff..

Chuck Stone

JonathanAnon wrote: »

only if he then drove at speed before braking at the edge of a cliff..

Reminds me of hangin' onto the roof of a car as a teen when the guy driving was pelting along at 60 mph +. Now that was scary. Same guy got put off the road for 8 years for killing a cyclist while speeding. Not funny at all. Shoulda been locked up imo.

Ledger

My dad used to let me change the gears of the lorry when i was like 8 or 9.
And of course driving the car on the beach since i was able to see over the steering wheel! I even got to 2nd gear! ha





EDIT: About 6 months ago, i fell off the side of the car and fractured my skull. Amazing what a few pints will do.

Dionysus

The OP wouldn't happen to be named either Joseph Meleady or Joseph Grogan?

Maybe I'm just too old

Ledger

Dionysus wrote: »

The OP wouldn't happen to be named either Joseph Meleady or Joseph Grogan??

Maybe I'm just too old

SWOOOOSH!

thats the sound of that going over my head, sorry mate ha

pragmatic1

My dad had a van and used to let me hang on to the back. Decided to jump one day after seeing it on the A-Team. Thought I'd land on my feet easily. How wrong I was.

Chuck Stone

Dionysus wrote: »

The OP wouldn't happen to be named either Joseph Meleady or Joseph Grogan?

Maybe I'm just too old

I would never place so much value on a mechanically propelled device as to wager my life on it's staying under my control.;)

eth0

There are still people doing this today and in 10 or 20 years you will see threads exactly the same. Just a bit of harmless fun

Parents doing it now obviously keep schtumm about it because say it to the wrong person and you could get the social workers on your door. There is more hysteria about it being a bad thing now but most take no notice of the 'think of the children' crowd

2 stroke

Car bonnets didn't dent as easily in those days.

Chuck Stone

eth0 wrote: »

There are still people doing this today and in 10 or 20 years you will see threads exactly the same. Just a bit of harmless fun

Parents doing it now obviously keep schtumm about it because say it to the wrong person and you could get the social workers on your door. There is more hysteria about it being a bad thing now but most take no notice of the 'think of the children' crowd

If all the dangerous things I did as a kid were denied me I think I'd be a much lesser man for it.

At risk of sounding like one of those 'when I were a lad' folks there are too many kids these days thinking completing level 8 is exciting.

xsiborg

living out the country there was always a tractor with a trailer handily zipping along the road that if i sped up on the bicycle, i could grab a dangling rope or the door release handle and hitch a ride all the way home, when we saw michael j. fox do it in "back to the future" with a skateboard hanging on to the back of a car, one of me brothers muttered "copycat!"

i wouldn't do it now though when tractors can zip along at 50mph! :eek:

eth0

xsiborg wrote: »

i wouldn't do it now though when tractors can zip along at 50mph! :eek:

Never mind health & safety, its fast tractors that are ruining our fun

Chuck Stone

I was a skater boi (she said see you later boi) and I used to get tows offa many willing adults from their mechanically propelled devices I tells ya!

My dad used to let us steer while he lit a cigarette.

stepbar

Jeasus....

I used to think the ould lad was cool when he let us sit in the transport box... Clearly not!!!!

Liamario

It depends on a couple of things.
Was he trying to run you over/ escape the family home?
Was he using you as Armour plating to avoid incoming fire in Baghdad?

Jordan 199

I sat on the boot of a saloon car, don't think I ever sat on the bonnet.