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« on: January 13, 2012, 03:26:12 am »
When I was just into year 8, around 12 years old, I lived in a rural town, And on the way home there was a large horse paddock, surounded by an electric fence. One day I walked Home with some "friends" who dared me to ride the horse. after a great deal of coaxing/teasing I gave in and climbed over the fence. Fun fact. Horses do NOT like strangers. It flipped out, and started screaming, and rearing. Deciding That I wanted none of that I ran to the fence, (my "Friends had Pissbolted outa there earlier.) And tried to Vault over it. That didnt go so well. I got shocked fell onto the fence and got shocked again. At the time I was convinced the horse was going to kill me, Which may sound silly but seriously Hourses are huge and this one looked really pissed. Since the horse wasn't actually chasing me or anything I managed to climb over the fence and stumble back to my house.
And as a case of general stupidity on the part of everyone in my family, As a kid my divorced father took me and my three siblings up to the largest steepest hill in the area and gave us cardboard boxes. We would then flatten the cardboard And slide down the entire hill, My dad would drive down to the bottom in his car an take us back to the top. The hill was about 500-600 metres (it looked like a straight kilometer or two when I was a kid) Started Covered in grass and went a cut down shrub land before ending in dirt and rock. It's a wonder Nobody got hurt. Thinking on it now I wonder if my dad had any kind of insurance policy.
We also used to have "fruit wars" in my high school where all the boys from year 7-8 and all the boys from 9-10 would throw The fruit from their lunches, It was pretty brutal. Apples oranges and unripe lime hurt the most. I think a few kids had to go to hospitol. I know at least one Kid broke his nose from a well aimed apple. It hit the high point for me when two kids brought in Potato cannons. The teachers found out and had those two suspended. THen they called a special assembly to yell at us, but we all just found it funny.