Parental Angst

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:51 pm

At least, they don't have drivers' licenses yet. They're 20 and 18. He's a physics student at UC Berkeley. (Brother and sister, by the way.) Go figure.

http://www.tinwhistletunes.com/clipssni ... ftTrip.htm

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:56 pm

Tell them to scoot over. I want to get on.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:56 pm

Looks like fun!

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:12 pm

How incredibly fun! Look, not many people get a chance to build a raft and try it out. And they didn't drown. They flipped and it was okay. Yeah, I can understand being worried, I would have been. That's why they did it when you weren't there!

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:17 pm

We used to do that kind of thing as kids...
and I stress the as kids part!!

We used to build rafts and sail down the canals that run through the cities between the Great Salt Lake and Utah lake...
when we were older is when we took to doing "stupider" things, like water skiing up and down the canal tethered to a pickup driving down the access road!

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:25 pm

Very well packaged with top quality photographs.

A very impressive project.

Slan,
D.

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:38 pm

Nice photos. I got a kick out of it.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:56 pm

Tony - you have my heart-felt sympathy.

I remember being young and immortal; compared to my friends I was a pretty levelheaded kid, but there are a *lot* of things I did at their age that leaves me shaking my head in disbelief.

Glad they survived with only minor damaged (I'll admit, it probably *Was* fun).

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:07 pm

Mainly, I'm content to avoid as much parental anxiety as possible by not knowing what they're doing once they fly the coop.

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:14 pm

Child's play! (pun intended)

When I was a wee child, we lived on the banks of the Calapooya River in Oregon. We used to "shoot the rapids" in bright orange Maye West life jackets.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:19 pm

Excellent! They look like they had a ton of fun....I'm just glad it wasn't my kids doing it

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:29 pm

As children, my siblings and I did amazingly stupid but fun things. As I grew older, I often thought to myself, "Self, you must be the stupidest person on earth." Then I found out about some of the stuff my dad did when he was growing up.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:33 pm

jsluder wrote: I often thought to myself, "Self, you must be the stupidest person on earth."

I didn't realize that your real name was self. That changes everything you know.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:34 pm

izzarina wrote:That changes everything you know.

Actually, it didn't change anything I know.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:37 pm

jsluder wrote:
izzarina wrote:That changes everything you know.
Actually, it didn't change anything I know.

That's what you think, Self.