ONE MINUTE ON THE LONG ROAD • EPISODE 4

Remember Dirt Clod Fights?

Among the many stupid things we did as kids, dirt clod fights probably wouldn’t have seemed particularly unusual.

They were simple enough. Find a drainage ditch, divide into sides, and start throwing chunks of dirt at each other. At least that was the general idea.

Like most childhood plans, however, things had a tendency to get a little more complicated once we got started.

We had a different definition of dangerous

Reflection

There were a lot of things we did as kids that nobody would dream of letting children do today.

Most of the time, nobody knew where we were. We disappeared after breakfast, showed up when we got hungry, and apparently that counted as a reasonable system of supervision.

We learned that something was dangerous mostly by doing it and discovering, occasionally, that it was dangerous.

I don’t know that we were tougher or braver. We may simply have had fewer adults watching us and considerably worse judgment.

Somehow, most of us made it home.

And years later, the things that probably should have scared us are often the things we remember with the biggest smiles.

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