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**LudeSRV** · 04-24-2007, 04:53 PM

When I was like...7-8...ya that's about right, grade 3-4 or so. I found an abandon diesel refuelling station for an old train track by my house in the country. I climbed the biggest silo that was there, probably like 70-80 feet. On the side of it, those ladder systems that are welded onto the side of it. No harness, no cage around me. Just me (like 8 years old), the silo, and dirt 70 feet below me. I wasn't scared, I never though, gee, I better get my safety gear on. I was a kid, being a kid, doing what kids do. If kids don't get hurt, how do they learn not to do something.

I learned not to ride my bike down step hills at age 6, AFTER I fell and basically destroyed my skin on my knees and shoulder (I got threated as 3rd degree burns at the hospital) and I got 8 stitches in my eyebrow. I still never wore my helmet afterwards.

I did what kids are suppose to do, live life and learn from it!

I'm gonna try my best to raise my kids with a more old school european attitude. Teach them that hard work, respect and perserverance is the only way to get anything in life, being smart (not intelligent, but smart) helps alot too.

04-24-2007, 04:53 PM	#16 (permalink)
LudeSRV VM Member Posts: 2,537 Location: Kitchener Join Date: Dec 2004 Ride: 1990 Honda Civic Cx Fav Mod: Class: Street	When I was like...7-8...ya that's about right, grade 3-4 or so. I found an abandon diesel refuelling station for an old train track by my house in the country. I climbed the biggest silo that was there, probably like 70-80 feet. On the side of it, those ladder systems that are welded onto the side of it. No harness, no cage around me. Just me (like 8 years old), the silo, and dirt 70 feet below me. I wasn't scared, I never though, gee, I better get my safety gear on. I was a kid, being a kid, doing what kids do. If kids don't get hurt, how do they learn not to do something. I learned not to ride my bike down step hills at age 6, AFTER I fell and basically destroyed my skin on my knees and shoulder (I got threated as 3rd degree burns at the hospital) and I got 8 stitches in my eyebrow. I still never wore my helmet afterwards. I did what kids are suppose to do, live life and learn from it! I'm gonna try my best to raise my kids with a more old school european attitude. Teach them that hard work, respect and perserverance is the only way to get anything in life, being smart (not intelligent, but smart) helps alot too. ------------------ Sebastien 1990 Honda Civic Cx B18A1 (slow as hell) matched to a YS1 w/LSD Missing the Lude. Scratch that, selling the lude...