Politcal correctness gone mad!

[Tim Sullivan]

Reading some of the bow and arrow comments makes me think back to my youth, when I spent summer days shooting a bow and arrow at a friend's place...and this in the middle of the city of Hamilton. Very urban, we were in his front yard and had the target nailed to a tree. No one said anything, and we certainly never had any trouble. Thinking back, I can't believe adults actually let us do this (we had no back stop or anything else to stop an errant arrow, of which there was many hehe)

And hell, I'm only 29, so it's not like my childhood was THAT long ago, but amazing how things can be night and day different in only 20 years. Wow....

Also remember the joys of visiting my grandmother who had at least six great trees for climbing at her property, of which she and my parents were more than glad to let me climb. Never fell out, because I was smart enough to never climb too high, or sit on a branch too skinny.

Now that I've got two daughters, it amazes me just how insane parents really are. My oldest was dumb enough to slide headfirst down a slide at a park once, when one of the other mothers saw her doing this she went running ot help my daughter screaming "OH MY GOD, SHE'S GOING DOWN HEAD FIRST!!!" Wasn't even her kid, and my wife and I both told her to relax, she's fine, she does it all the time. A great example of the over-protectiveness that is out there nowadays. Try finding a park anywhere now that has any play structures higher than six feet as well. We wouldn't want a kid to fall and learn not to do somethin dumb now, would we?

Love the memories... hehehe....

Tim