Mistakes I made as a child:
1. Examined the heat of the exhaust pipe of our family van after a long trip by touching it.
2. Roller-bladed in the rain.
3. Tried to fly.
4. Used a frightened cat to test my inflatable raft.
5. As a young boy quoted the line from The Three Amigos "We raped the horses and rode off on the women" to my mother. (At the time I didn't know what it meant, just that it made people laugh when he said it in the movie)
6. In a failed attempt to get a game of "Smear the queer" going, I announced to the church potluck that I would be "the queer"

When I was about 7, I had a toy gun. I managed to get a live bullet (I have no idea from where), crammed it in the end of the barrel backwards, and tried to shoot our cat. To this day the bullet is stuck in the toy gun, as a testament to my profound mechanical knowledge as a child.
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