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May 10, 2005

Trike Daredevil

When I was 1-4 years old, we lived at my grandparent's two-story brick home in Lakeview, Ohio. A big concrete swimming pool was fenced in the back yard. Owing to the fact that we are in a snow State, the pool had to be emptied every Autumn and sealed every Spring before filling. This pool went from about 4 feet deep to 12 feet deep at the larger end.

Whilst my mother and grandmother were sealing the pool, one Spring, I took advantage of the interlude of supervision in order to acquisition my Tricycle and trike about the porch surrounding the pool. I was so amused by my performance, that I naturally wanted my Mother to see, so I rode the trike right to the lip of the shallow end of the empty pool and started yelling at her.

She turned and (insert eyes getting freakishly large) witnesses her first son on the precipice of the pool waving. Naturally she yells, which merely serves as a means for shocking my poor little self and causing said tricycle to careen down into the pool and roll all the way down to the deep end, amazingly upright. The pedals of the bike kept slapping my shins the whole way, its a wonder I didn't break my leg or neck.

Not a single trophy did I get from that trick.

Posted by Ravennacht at May 10, 2005 02:54 PM Posted to Childhood Antics