Remster 30 #51 October 8, 2002 QuoteYou know, I'm 22, sort of between the two generations discribed BAWWAAAHAAA... no you're not!!!!!!Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skreamer 1 #52 October 8, 2002 Shuddup grandpa, go polish yer dentures and quit messin' with the young 'uns... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,090 #53 October 8, 2002 Yep. I was responsible for two forest fires, one collapsed foundation, a stream diverted through a housing complex, and one car accident when I was a kid. I'm amazed at all the things I survived - the homemade hang glider incident, the water tower incident, swimming across the bay, trying to sail to Manhattan (not recommended) the shooting-at-each-other-with-pellet-gun wars. Of course, we also had Ty, the neighborhood disaster, who was always getting run over or attacked by a dog or cut open on a fence. "You don't want to end up like Ty, do you?" my mother would always ask me. One of my favorite places was the embankment by the road, a sand-and-weed hill that stood at about 60 degrees. You could get a running start and fall about 20 feet before you hit the sand, and then you slid and rolled to the bottom. Of course you also ended up in the street, which was something of a minus. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #54 October 8, 2002 "You don't want to end up like Ty, do you?" my mother would always ask me. " Everyone should have a purpose in life. It sucks if your purpose is to the "bad example" for others. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamsville 0 #55 October 8, 2002 Right on! Sometimes we can try to make the world a better place, but most of the time it pays to deal with the world the way it is. Most of my jumper friends believe in the latter as far as life in general. At least as far as our sport itself is concerned, dealing with reality is a good safety policy. HarryI don't drink during the day, so I don't know what it is about this airline. I keep falling out the door of the plane. Harry, FB #4143 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #56 October 8, 2002 wow. you make my childhood sound boring. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #57 October 8, 2002 Quoteshooting-at-each-other-with-pellet-gun wars Man, I forgot about that. We used to get those pump action bbgun rifles, pump them a few times and shoot at each other...usually climbing on roof tops to get the best angle. Man, those were the days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,090 #58 October 8, 2002 >We used to get those pump action bbgun rifles, pump them a few >times and shoot at each other...usually climbing on roof tops to get > the best angle. Man, those were the days. Yep. We were safe, of course - we had a no-shooting-each-other-in-the-eye rule. (Unfortunately for me, we did not have a no-shooting-each-other-in-the-mouth rule, one of my 'scars' from childhood.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #59 October 8, 2002 Quote"You don't want to end up like Ty, do you?" Hmmm, I wonder how many "Ty's" we have here at Dropzone.com? Maybe we should have numbers. I want to be Ty #1. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverchick 0 #60 October 8, 2002 QuoteI broke my collar bone taking a dare to ride my bike down a steep hill. realy me too. How funny. Mother Hen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kinney29 0 #61 October 8, 2002 Did you get an ambulance ride? Adapt or Die Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverchick 0 #62 October 8, 2002 nope no ambulance ride. I walked/stumbled in shock to a neihbors house they called my grandparents. my grandpa didn't want to take me to the hospital. He said its just a collar bone they can't help you plus it serves you right. When I got home to my grandma and she saw my pale face and the bone almost coming through the skin she took me to the emergency room. did you get an ambulance ride for yours Mother Hen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJL 235 #63 October 8, 2002 -One fire. -One search for a missing child (me) at a National Park in Michigan (I used to run off and explore). -Pellet gun wars kicked ass. -Numerous explosives that in all reality should have at least blown off my hand. -Used to love climbing up pine trees in my back yard in Maine (very tall) and swinging back and forth at the top. This coincided with finding out that a mother's scream ("DOUG, YOU GET DOWN FROM THERE!!!") can permeat brick walls and modern insulation to sound like she's sitting next to you. -Doug"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kinney29 0 #64 October 8, 2002 Oh yeah, see I hit face first on pavement and opened a nesty cut around my eye. As you may know the head bleeds a lot and soon I had so much blood that my T-shirt was soaked red. A group of boy scouts happend by (No lie) and the leader put my arm in a sling and called an ambulance, before long the story had grown that I was hit by a car and they took off, there were cops, a fire truck, and ambulance. It was a pretty cool scene, it took me 10 years to go back to that hill. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverchick 0 #65 October 8, 2002 I lived on the hill so couldn't wscape the memories of going face first into the ditch at the bottom of hill where it intersected another rode. By the way thank god for the ditch and my collar bone or we'd be talking about massive head trama. Mother Hen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #66 October 8, 2002 Quote Yep. We were safe, of course - we had a no-shooting-each-other-in-the-eye rule. You were lucky. We didn't have pellet guns. So we had lit cans of WD-40 and the "No burning hair" rule. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kinney29 0 #67 October 8, 2002 Thank goodness I took a lot of the impant on the bone around my eye. It is one of the strongest bones in the body. I had stiches less than an 1/8th of an inch from my eye. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,090 #68 October 8, 2002 >Numerous explosives that in all reality should have at least blown off > my hand. I used to mix concoctions of gunpowder, soap, gasoline, alcohol etc and place them in strategic places in plastic models. Building a big plastic ship, putting it in the stream, setting it on fire and letting it sail down the stream was always good for hours of fun (at least until one of the forest fires.) >Used to love climbing up pine trees in my back yard in Maine . . We had a forest near us with these huge vines that hung out of them. We would swing on them until they broke (with Ty, being the heaviest, taking most of the falls) and then replace them with ropes. I became well known at age 8 for being the one kid who could figure out where to put the rope such that you did not encounter the trunk of the tree during the return. An early talent at physics I guess. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #69 October 8, 2002 QuoteWe would swing on them until they broke (with Ty, being the heaviest, taking most of the falls) and then replace them with ropes....An early talent at physics I guess. I suppose I was the neighborhood's Ty. My early lack of a grasp of physics was demonstrated when my buddy at the time, John Novak (the "Von" must be German for "smart" or something). The Von-less Novack and me found a long piece of truck-rope, which is kid for "thick rope" and I tied a knot in the end, climbed up into this huge Willow tree and John got on a board on the ground about 50 feet below me. Science. Theory: I drop off the branch, hold onto the rope, John slides across the grass on the board! Whee! I let go of the tree and see John let go of the rope. CRACK. I learn that the two bones in the left arm are the radius and the ulna, because they are both sticking out the end of my hand. John freaks out and runs home, about a mile away. I'm shocked out pretty bad and can't get up. A while later John shows up with his mom, who says "OH SHIT!" and leaves with John. I didn't know she went to call an ambulance at the nearest pay phone(Cell phones were called two-way radios back then, nobody in my neighborhood had one -over). I figure they left me there to die, which was better than telling my parents that I broke my arm being stupid. The ambulance got there a while later. (About ten years later, it seemed at the time). Anyhow, I got my first ambulance ride and my first injection of morphine. That was the summer between 6th and 7th grades I think. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #70 October 8, 2002 Quote An early talent at physics I guess. Or just a willingness to sacrifice the other kids as test dummies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SBS 0 #71 October 8, 2002 Dude... Lawndarts! :) -S_____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jessica 0 #72 October 8, 2002 My brother and I grew up on 11 acres of woods with no one else to play with and no cable. I'm very surprised we're not dead. Every 4th of July we would buy shitloads of firecrackers and store them in airtight containers so we would not have to face the long winter without blowing shit up. And we played in storm drains and on the railroad tracks. Set fires by the hundreds. Went swimmin' in catfish ponds. Chewed hayseeds. So when I grew up, I became a city girl! I feel sorry for kids who, when the reflect on their childhood, will only see a television screen in their memories. Not to say we didn't play us some video games! I used to be able to win Super Mario Bros. in eight minutes.Skydiving is for cool people only Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #73 October 8, 2002 Jessica, You are totally right. I have 3 nephews who are all 13. One lives on Long Island and the other 2 are in Massachusetts. Every summer they descend on my parents home for 2 weeks. This past summer, my parents were going nuts because they were turning the house upside down. I asked my mom what they were doing and she said they were really noisy in the house while playing video games. I couldn't believe this. I told her to send them OUTSIDE to play sports, ride their bikes, whatever! I couldn't believe 3 13 year olds would prefer to stay in front of Nintendo for 2 weeks in July. When I was their age, I was outside from the moment I woke up till the moment it was dark. The sad part is, I think all 3 of them are smarter than me. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #74 October 9, 2002 you know the one that really gets me? lego. remember when you had your choice of the big box of lego, the really big box of lego, and the humongous box of lego? most of the blocks were square or rectangular, some of the 'deluxe' sets had windows, doors, sloped parts for roofs and wheels. you actually had to use your imagination to build something. now, there is a lego section with the pirate, space, rescue, race car and whatever sets that basically build one thing, and one thing only. we used to have stuff like that too, but they were called snap-tite scale models and they were for kids that couldn't be trusted with glue. and meccano? anyone else have that? i loved that stuff!"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #75 October 9, 2002 hmmm meccano..... I loved that stuff, I always wanted to be an injuneer, now I are one.....-------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
