Question of the Day - Saturday, October 5th, 2024

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The lack of responsibility, the freedom, the ease…I remember long summer days when I’d spend almost the whole day in the woods with my brothers. We found so much to do out there, climbing trees and playing with the neighbor kids. I really miss those days.
 
Hanging out with my brother and the guys in the neighborhood, riding bikes and being free to roam the neighborhood all day doin' nothin' - before they discovered I was a gurrrrl. ... throwing balls with the crippled kid next door, depending what season it was, a football, baseball, tennis ball. If I didn't land it in his lap I had to run down the street to go fetch it; if I missed catching it I had to run the other way to retrieve it. I could outrun every kid in the neighborhood from all that running and I could beat them all at Indian wrestling, too. I miss being fit and strong and fast.
 
BigBlueHen53 said:
Hanging out with my brother and the guys in the neighborhood, riding bikes and being free to roam the neighborhood all day doin' nothin' - before they discovered I was a gurrrrl. ... throwing balls with the crippled kid next door, depending what season it was, a football, baseball, tennis ball. If I didn't land it in his lap I had to run down the street to go fetch it; if I missed catching it I had to run the other way to retrieve it. I could outrun every kid in the neighborhood from all that running and I could beat them all at Indian wrestling, too. I miss being fit and strong and fast.
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I read this as throwing balls AT the crippled kid next door. I was shocked, shocked I say
 
Caving, going swimming at different swimming holes, jumping off of falls and cliffs is probably what I miss the most. But, a lot of other things as well like playing sports, riding motorcycles, playing in the woods, camping out, sneaking out and staying out all night, fishing, hunting, horseback riding, just too many things to even list. I still do some of those things, but it certainly isn't as much fun now.

My kids have lived a much tamer life than I did. Sometimes I think I would have a heart attack if my kids did even a fraction of the crazy things I did, but other times I feel sorry for them that they have lived a much tamer/safer life. My life was way, way too wild and I can't even say some of the things on here, or express just how wild and undisciplined it was. It was very crazy to put it mildly.
 
bill3607 said:
Caving, going swimming at different swimming holes, jumping off of falls and cliffs is probably what I miss the most. But, a lot of other things as well like playing sports, riding motorcycles, playing in the woods, camping out, sneaking out and staying out all night, fishing, hunting, horseback riding, just too many things to even list. I still do some of those things, but it certainly isn't as much fun now.

My kids have lived a much tamer life than I did. Sometimes I think I would have a heart attack if my kids did even a fraction of the crazy things I did, but other times I feel sorry for them that they have lived a much tamer/safer life. My life was way, way too wild and I can't even say some of the things on here, or express just how wild and undisciplined it was. It was very crazy to put it mildly.
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Lucky to have survived, were ye?
 

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