I seem to have lost all my quotes.....
I have one of the EXTREMELY few houses in California that has a basement. It currently has a dirt floor, and on the rare occasion we get rain - the water bubbles up and it becomes very slippery clay. So, until we can pour a concrete floor, we don't store too much stuff down there. The basement is the only way to get to the crawl space underneath our house.
I only broke fingers, toes and a rib growing up. Needed stitches twice. But not too many ER trips. My brother broke his arm. Overall we weren't as brutal on our bodies as some of you (or your kids) were.
But, we had WAY more chances to injure ourselves back then - no seat belts, helmets weren't required, riding in the back of pick up trucks. It's a wonder how any of us survived....lol
It sure is.