I read an article this morning which had pictures of “back in the day”. One of the pictures was a bunch of kids “car hopping”. If you are too young to know what that is: Car hopping was done in the snow. You would wait for a car going down the street, and run and hang on to it’s bumper and let it tow you down the snow filled road. Sort of like Marty McFly in Back to the Future, when he catches cars with his skateboard, and gets a tow home. So much fun, and yet so much “dangerous”.
If I caught my son doing that, I wouldn’t let him out in the snow until he was 18. It brought to mind some of the other things I used to do as a kid. Like walking to school which was almost 2 miles away. Cutting through people’s yards, going through the woods, and the baseball field, all the while dragging my coat on the ground that I was supposed to be wearing, since it “was 3 degrees outside. I remember one day walking to school, and I passed two guys coming out of a house with shotguns. They must have been going hunting, but since I was 11, I thought they had just shot the people who lived in that house, and were leaving for lunch. I didn’t know. I do know it scared the shit outta me so bad, I never went passed that house again. I changed my school walk route. Who knows, they “could” have just murdered the house owner.
I also remember riding my bike on the railroad tracks, sneaking off to the mall on the bus, walking across the creek over a two inch tree branch that got struck by lightening, and landed purposely across the water – 10 feet above the water. I did one time fall off that tree, and had a rock puncture my knee. Off to the hospital. I told my Dad I fell off my bike.
These days however, kids do not do any of that stuff, except for maybe … Read the rest of this entry »
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