bluetree wrote:

> No, I was just asking, what stuff did you do, when you were a smaller one. There
> *must* some similar experience. Come on, enlighten me! :-)

Living in a semi-rural area had its advantages. Caught and kept many a 
box turtle, a couple red-ear slider, Dad beheaded a copperhead in our 
backyard. Then there was the year a pond began to dry up and a friend 
and I caught a bucketfull of catfish with our bare hands. (Never mind 
the fact that this was the very pond that was known for harboring 
snapping turtles and water moccasins. The very same pond my friend's dog 
suffered a bite... That was nasty, the venom was necrotizing, the bite 
wasn't fatal, but the dog's foot just sort of rotted away.) Then there 
was the great passionfruit scare. You see, we had these vines with these 
really wicked looking flowers, and these really neat roundish fruit. 
Some of us were bold enough to try the pulp inside. Quite good, 
actually, one of the younger neighborhood kids dropped one when his mom 
showed up, caused an uproar in our neighborhood. Calls to poison control 
ensued.

I'd been hosed off in our front yard so many times... Thankfully my 
mother allowed me the dignity of removing my mud-covered clothes 
*inside* the garage.

Other than that, nothing really.

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