Exactly, I have always been a risk taker and 70% of the time it works out every time (joking).
I know why I’m a risk taker, I was a free range kid. We built forts, we made things that go boom*, dirt bikes/4 wheelers, RC cars, etc. All shit that makes you think and learn. No internet, library and your older friends/adults.
*Well until one kid blew himself up a town over. Always clean the threads and teflon tape them. You don’t need a tighten the end caps. It blows thru the sides. Or so I’m told.
Yeah we would go camping in the summer so it was “come back for meals and sleep otherwise get the fuck out.” So we learned a lot on our own. At home though my Mom was more of a helicopter parent. I can see both the anxiety and risk taking in my life based on things I did as a kid lol.
Yeah mom was (and still is and I’m in my 50s) still hovering a bit. I try not to complain but you know how it is.
Summer were that way, wake up. Eat a fast breakfast and kicked out of the house. We assembled the BMX bike gang and started raising hell. Over to Brians house to check out the latest porn mags his dad hid in the garage and we found. Hustler was my favorite. Then to the railroad tracks to mash pennies or throw rocks at the train (yeah we are retarded). Then get into fights with the older kids or the next neighborhood.
Summer weekdays we were allowed in our house to watch Force Five and Starblazers. We had the biggest TV so it was a default location for this and boxing matches. Saturdays we were allowed to watch “Creature Double Feature” I love Godzilla!
Then we got a bit of hair on our peaches and it was all girls.
Yeah kinda similar with us. We went camping in a place where you saw the same people often so we all rode bikes and raised hell together lol. At home the only cool thing we had was we were the house with the racecar in the garage so all the neighborhood kids wanted to hang out. You know, until my dad stated yelling at everyone to shut the fuck up 🤣
Oh wait that last bit still happens except for a few years it was in my garage so I got to tell him off. But he’s still way career at that shit than we are so you only push the old man so far lol.
You know, until my dad stated yelling at everyone to shut the fuck up 🤣
Do we have the same dad?
So you got to wrench, my dad was a BSEE. So we had all the atari games, over the air encrypted signals (Stars) he built decoder boxes. So I learned how to solder and do board work. I had to get smarts later on how to wrench. No regrats there
We had the camping thing but my dad wasn’t game. Nor was my later step father… I went out there to hang with my friends. Kinda blew my mind that they would stay at the campground 4-5 months and have a perfectly good home empty…
I get it now, but at 12 and my influences at the time were at odds.
Exactly, I have always been a risk taker and 70% of the time it works out every time (joking).
I know why I’m a risk taker, I was a free range kid. We built forts, we made things that go boom*, dirt bikes/4 wheelers, RC cars, etc. All shit that makes you think and learn. No internet, library and your older friends/adults.
*Well until one kid blew himself up a town over. Always clean the threads and teflon tape them. You don’t need a tighten the end caps. It blows thru the sides. Or so I’m told.
Yeah we would go camping in the summer so it was “come back for meals and sleep otherwise get the fuck out.” So we learned a lot on our own. At home though my Mom was more of a helicopter parent. I can see both the anxiety and risk taking in my life based on things I did as a kid lol.
Yeah mom was (and still is and I’m in my 50s) still hovering a bit. I try not to complain but you know how it is.
Summer were that way, wake up. Eat a fast breakfast and kicked out of the house. We assembled the BMX bike gang and started raising hell. Over to Brians house to check out the latest porn mags his dad hid in the garage and we found. Hustler was my favorite. Then to the railroad tracks to mash pennies or throw rocks at the train (yeah we are retarded). Then get into fights with the older kids or the next neighborhood.
Summer weekdays we were allowed in our house to watch Force Five and Starblazers. We had the biggest TV so it was a default location for this and boxing matches. Saturdays we were allowed to watch “Creature Double Feature” I love Godzilla!
Then we got a bit of hair on our peaches and it was all girls.
Yeah kinda similar with us. We went camping in a place where you saw the same people often so we all rode bikes and raised hell together lol. At home the only cool thing we had was we were the house with the racecar in the garage so all the neighborhood kids wanted to hang out. You know, until my dad stated yelling at everyone to shut the fuck up 🤣
Oh wait that last bit still happens except for a few years it was in my garage so I got to tell him off. But he’s still way career at that shit than we are so you only push the old man so far lol.
Do we have the same dad?
So you got to wrench, my dad was a BSEE. So we had all the atari games, over the air encrypted signals (Stars) he built decoder boxes. So I learned how to solder and do board work. I had to get smarts later on how to wrench. No regrats there
We had the camping thing but my dad wasn’t game. Nor was my later step father… I went out there to hang with my friends. Kinda blew my mind that they would stay at the campground 4-5 months and have a perfectly good home empty…
I get it now, but at 12 and my influences at the time were at odds.