When I was a kid living in Chicago, the family rented a cabana club at a
local hotel so the kids would have some place to go during the summer
months. One day while playing (mumblie peg - anyone play that? You take a
knife, throw it up in the air in various ways, then have it stick in some
wood.. anyway), while playing we hear some terrible screaming coming from
the back of the hotel. The pool we were near was outside. We ran to the back
just in time to see a guy come smashing down from 6 story window onto the
pavement in the back of the hotel. He was definitely dead.. bounced a good 3
feet. The police were called, the press showed up, and eventually the
policeman told us kids to beat it because they were going to turn him over.
Of course, we stuck around.

So, that afternoon when I went home, I told mom. She said the same thing...
Why are you making these things up?

She got a big surprise in the morning when the paper had it on the front
page. :-)

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"katy" wrote in message
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Scout wrote:
"Seahag" wrote in message
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"Martin Baxter" wrote:

Katy wrote:

They chained the merry-go-round so it was
stationary...was a bummer...recess was boting as heck...
Doesn't do any good anyway. Kids will find ways to get hurt. I got a
spiral fracture of the tibia in grade 3, in the sand pit. Course it
took two other kids swinging me by the feet and hands to see how far
they could toss me. ;-o Guess my mom should have sued and I'd be
rich(er) now. (gr)
Kewl! I went thru a 'fear 'o ants' period. Fell out of a eucalyptus
tree,
fortunately onto the recently buried chinchillas...my mother woulda
killed
me so I never told...

Seahag

I've only recently begun telling my mother what she didn't know about me
in the 60's )
As far as the 70's are concerned, I'm not even going there with her - she
is my mom afterall!
Scout
We tried to do that with my Mom and all she would say is "Why are yu
making these things up?" Denial...