Dang man you are going to make me cry. Childhood is suppose to be fun.
They warn you about lightning in Oklahoma ... and they’ve got some doozies! You should see the weather news here ... they cut into any show on TV at any time, when they’ve got severe thunderstorms coming ... and they can come out of nowhere, too.
There’s a reason they’ve got the severe weather center located in Oklahoma ... down by Norman, I think.
My kids (as toddlers) loved to play at the public dog park in the huge mud puddles (10-15 feet across, a foot deep) when they were kids. They would be covered in muck, dogs running through, etc. Followed by a dunk in the nearby creek to get the worst of it off.
The other parents must have hated us as they kept grabbing and yelling at their kids to get out.
Oh - and the 20-foot culvert that they liked to crawl through.
I do draw the line at lightening though - having a few close encounters myself.