im always baffled when people only a couple years younger than me cant imagine life without bike helmets or wrist/elbow/knee pads. i learned to ride a bike in gravel. we didnt have paved roads in my town. and wiping out resulted in serious skinning (which should be called deskinning).
i also remember a time before seatbelt or motorcycle helmet laws. the good ol' 1980s. in fact, i dont think we even had seatbelts in our hippy-van, and my dad only wore a helmet when he rode alone.
my mom and her friends used to take us kids ice skating... on the lake. we (adults and kids) didnt wear ice skates - why bother? - we just wore our brown-soled sneakers and slid around on the creaking crackling ice.
ive only been shot once with a b-b gun, and luckily it wasn't in the eye. alas, the same cousin who shot me, did happen to shoot another kid in the eye. i believe that court case is still open... 18 years later.
finally, i recall fishing in a rock quarry canal with my mom and her bf. i also recall there being a whirlpool which seemed to suck every/anything into it and under the water. we sat on the very edge of the rocks with our feet in the water. when i fell in, i held onto a wobbly rock and calmly asked for assistance. had i not held on or had the rock dislodged, id have been sucked under and surely have drown.
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