[TheForge] Anyone there? OT:

[Jerry Frost]

More than kind of stupid and if the folks had caught us we would've been 
toast. We were extremely careful but the kids we wouldn't let play because 
they weren't careful tended to play anyway, just not with us. A few got hurt 
though fortunately nothing terrible like a lost eye. What we really learned 
was what it means to lead by example. When Kinny had to have an embedded BB 
taken out of his cheek we never played or even talked about it again.

All of us have dangerous persuits or professions and as adults we've learned 
how to keep the inexperienced from taking uneccessary chances. At least on 
our watches. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who played dangerous games 
as a kid and got off lucky. Ever have a wheelie contest on your stingray 
bike? Two kids I went to school with ended up with traumatic brain injuries 
because nobody wore helmets on bicycles then.

I often wonder how I survived childhood when so many didn't.

Jer.
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anyone there? OT:


>I guess you guys got off lucky.  Many who did this did not.
>
> Looking back it was kind stupid - right?
>