>>> You had to be back at sundown?
My Mom was strict! We had to be back by 6PM sharp for dinner. Earlier in the day, I could be and often was miles away. On my 12th birthday I got hit by a car (glancing blow) on a 4 lane road in town (at least 3 miles from my house), and managed to keep it secret from my folks for many years. Huge bruise on my arm/shoulder... my siblings covered for me.
When I was 6 years old I was hit by a car in Guadalajara Mexico. That was also a glancing blow but the driver smashed into a bridge abutment trying to avoid me and then came after me with a flyswatter to punish me. My brother who was eight and our friend who was also 8 were just running around on our own. Neither one of us believed that Mexico had any laws and that we could do whatever we wanted
**** “I got hit by a car (glancing blow) on a 4 lane road in town (at least 3 miles from my house), and managed to keep it secret from my folks for many years. Huge bruise on my arm/shoulder... my siblings covered for me” *****
I got hit by a Corvair, went clean over the top, I was fine, the driver not so much, bike had 2 bent rims that I jumped up and down on until the bike was ridable again ... it was ridable but the brakes no longer worked ... wrecked twice on the down hills in the dark ... Road Rash and embedded Gravel