Running behind and getting cooled off with the DDT spray!
Running free on a million acres of public land with coyotes, panthers, bobcats all around!
Playing with matches.
Swimming in a cow tank or pond. Drinking the same water.
Getting covered with ticks.
Playing with matches.
Crawling down abandoned cisterns in SE New Mexico! Shaped like a huge underground cement soda pop bottle.
Playing with matches.
Swimming in irrigation ditches.
Playing with matches.
And some too frightening to mention!
We used to swim in the local pond with volunteer shotgun toting dads patrolling the perimeter for gators.
Did the same in SW Texas-it was called “fun” and “learning responsibility” back then-now it called “dangerous”-something is just so wrong with that...
Running behind and getting cooled off with the DDT spray!
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I thought I was the only idiot who had done that.