[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I wiped out on gravel on my bike, front wheel was bent so I had to limp home walking the bike. Left a trail of blood to the bathroom. Mom came in while I was picking gravel out of my legs. She looked at me and said, "remember to clean up the mess."

"Yes ma'am."

Over dinner Dad looked at me and the bandages. "I see you learned something today."

"Yes sir."

"What did you learn?"

"Don't pull sharp turns on gravel with that bike."

"And?"

"Hydrogen peroxide takes the blood out of carpets."

"Good. We'll pound out the wheel tomorrow."

[al baby]

The black boy friend at dinner would have said we will steal a new bike for you in the morning

[Do_Tar]

“Hydrogen peroxide takes the blood out of carpets.”

A life lesson that still serves today!

[Bob434]

Lol- kids and families used to be tough- today kids get a scratch and it’s off to the hospitals for surgery and antibiotics lol. Back when we kids used to eat gravel regularly. I watched my brother ride a motocross bike over a small jump, landed wrong, gave it the throttle, and shot across the driveway and hit a rock, and got flung 8nto a tree- his head hit the tree and his body spun around in midair. I thought he was a goner, ran over just as he was picking hi self off the ground, and he said his life flashed before his eyes on impact.

We used to climb birch trees to the top, swi g them back and forth until it bent over to the next tree, and transfer to it- 30 or so feet off the ground... we were always outside doj g something stupid or dangerous.