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What dangerous childhood activities did you do? |
What did you enjoy as a child that would be considered too dangerous today? Here are mine: 1.Rode my bicycle all over town, no helmet of course. 2. Played kick-the-can in the street after dark. 3.Galopped on a horse through the farm fields and woods with a younger cousin; no helmet of course. 4. Stayed out trick-or-treating with my best friend till the last porch light in town was turned off. Learned to ride a bicycle on my older brother's ten speed when I was only 8 years old...could barely reach the pedals, let alone the GROUND. And I had to mount the thing by walking it up to our two foot high side porch and mounting it like a horse. It was REALLY SCARY being up there and NOT in control, so I learned to balance really quickly just from sheer fright! Explored the whole neighbourhood by myself from the age of five. By the time I was ten I knew every nook and cranny of it in a 10 mile radius (and yes I DO MEAN radius!), except for what was actually out IN the lake that is located two miles to the south of us. (But I DID dive and explore everything underwater out to where the bottom dropped off suddenly about 30 feet out. AND I learned about rip tides from first hand experience--which were thankfully not as bad in our lake as they could be in an ocean!). That is Lake Ontario--big mother--you can't even see haflway across it from shore. Toboganned down the ravine hills behind our houses. Got VERY good at steering to avoid all the trees in the way. And got REALLY CREATIVE by weaving back and forth across the shallow valleys to make the trip longer and more "fun", with twice as much tree dodging of course. Went skating in the winter on the river in the bottom of that ravine. Which is a normal passtime for most kids...EXCEPT, this river has lots of deep pools that never fully freeze over. Learning how to extricate yourself once you fall in is a must for any kid adventurous enough to do this to begin with. Lived next door to the local paedophile. All us kids knew about him, because his own kids were very specific about what he would do to us if we let our guards down. Our parents just "refused to see" what was going on with this man and all his religious and police "friends" who thought the same way he did. The courageous thing was learning how to grow up STILL believing in the inherant goodness in people! A view neither his daughter nor his son shared. Oh, yeah...nearly forgot this one! Stole the fruit out of the trees of a not-so-close neighbour. At night. It was dangerous because we needed to sneak up right underneath his bedroom window to get to the peach and apple trees. And the ONLY way you got enough to go around between your friends was to break off BRANCHES of the fruit and run. And the guy had a shotgun, AND a German Shepherd! Became a gangster in school and earned the respect of all races so they be good except my playground. bonikingv 1. Rode a skateboard down steep gravely hills (no helmet of course) 2. Rode a three wheeler (like atv) all over (gasp, again with no helmet) We did everything we could possibly think of that was dangerous and our motto was, "If you didn't get caught/hurt it never happened." *sigh* I miss the good old days. Thanks for a good question. My brother and I climbed a lot. Up in trees, up in the barn loft, on TOP of the barn (I kid you not)..... and we roamed all over the woods (snakes and other creatures not withstanding)..... and we had pocket knives from the time we were in grade school. I too did #'s 1,2,4 of your list -- however growing up in New York City (Brooklyn) we would play Johnny on the Pony as well. ~smoked cigarettes at "the fort" down by the river ~rubbed mercury on a nickle...(shiny!) ~looked at an eclipse full on( i am the only one in my family with glasses ) |
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