Posted by Racer on November 27, 2002, at 15:53:34
In reply to Please read if you're over 40...or under : ), posted by Phil on November 26, 2002, at 17:09:52
I didn't make up games with tennis balls or sticks, I made up games with a horse!
And we didn't just ride in the back of pickup trucks, we rode in the back of the hay truck: bales of hay, balanced carefully enough, with a dozen shrieking girls fighting over who got to sit on the wheel hub for the really BIG bounces!
I look back and do wonder that I survived at all, especially when I consider all the really stupid things I did: jumping picnic tables, galloping bareback on the beach, walking home late in the evening through the park...
And I do wonder when I see the care taken now. Back then, everyone knew you fell off horses, and sometimes got hurt. Nowadays, we can't let someone ride a horse again if they've come off, because the court might consider that to be gross negligence. Sheesh!
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