02-14-2021, 07:08 PM
I’m sure there is worse, but all I can think of right now is climbing 25’ up a wet, thin hemlock tree with no ropes (in rain boots), kayaking class II rapids at flood stage in a non-whitewater boat, taking that same boat (it also was not a sea kayak) out through a confluence into the open ocean, riding any horse any time, no questions asked, as a kid, and making my F-150 max out the speedometer when I was 17 (not a closed road or anything, but nothing bad happened - not even a ticket).
I grew up in a house where we had a basement fire, which my dad tried to extinguish with Tupperware containers of water... he also mixed bleach and ammonia accidentally. And then put a running chainsaw down on his thigh "for a minute". My mom got bitten by several random dogs, strangers or her own, over the years... LOTS of ER visits for varied things. Not much seemed too crazy to me back then.
I grew up in a house where we had a basement fire, which my dad tried to extinguish with Tupperware containers of water... he also mixed bleach and ammonia accidentally. And then put a running chainsaw down on his thigh "for a minute". My mom got bitten by several random dogs, strangers or her own, over the years... LOTS of ER visits for varied things. Not much seemed too crazy to me back then.