Have you ever been inside a railroad coal car? During a terrible storm one summer, the locomotives at the front of a train had to abandon a string of empty coal cars. They were just sitting there...right behind my house!!! We had to explore them. My middle brother (3 yrs older than me) challenged me to a race from one end to the other...going through the inside of each car.
If you stood at the bottom of a car, there was no way you could get out. At first I was afraid I wouldn't be able to--I went in anyway. But if you ran towards the end of the car (which was slanted) you could bounce off the slant, jump up and pull yourself out. It was like using a spring board to vault over a pommel horse. Sort of.
When we started the race, my brother gave me a shove backwards and started on the count of one (instead of 3) and I was behind from the start. As we progressed towards the other end I would see him as he climbed out of the car I was jumping into. I'd catch up a little and then fall back. After a while it got to be hard work climbing out of the cars. I wish I could say I overcame his cheating at the start and my age disadvantage, but I lost. We did have fun though--aren't boys strange???
We were covered in coal soot...like little chimney sweeps. When we went into the house, our mom took one look at us and said, "You are NOT supposed to play on that train!" My brother responded with the first thing that popped into his head, "Train? What train?"
He and I did laundry that afternoon.
Boys will be boys... all your stories remind me of all the little mischief my boys did when they were little. But since they were kids, everything is forgivable.
ReplyDeletehaha, loved it. Funny thing is, I probably would have done something like this when I was younger. I was the biggest "tom boy" and was always getting into trouble dirtying my clothes. My mom would always get mad at me for having grass stains or holes in my pants. LOL Not your typical girl growing up, so I can relate to this story. haha I'd probably respond with the same thing as your brother! :D
ReplyDeleteAnd about the dizzy spells, no clue what was causing it. After about two weeks they went away. Every so often I'll get one, but not sure why. I know it's not an inner ear thing because they ruled that out, I figure it's just my dumb head. LOL jk, no idea!
nice.
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love it, as usual:)
HAHAHA nice try :p...yeah, boys are strange BUT I played most of boys' game when I was a kid because I was such a tomboy girl ^^ btw I've been meaning to ask, who's that cutie on the profile pic?
ReplyDelete@Leah: We can get away w/a lot up until we can be charged as adults. jk, it's just innocent fun as long as no one gets hurt(seriously).
ReplyDelete@Dana Yoshimizu: I'm glad the spells eased up and that you liked the story. You would have been welcome to join us. Some of my best friends were tomboys. I hope your mom didn't use the "ladies are not supposed to..." line on you.
@ambiguous_angel: Thank you, I don't know how my brother thought he could explain why we were covered in coal soot. I guess he was going with deny, deny, deny and see what happens. Haha!
@acutelife: You mean the mini-Frankenstein monster? LOL. I'm afraid that's me just before I started school. We would have gotten along great then (just like now), because I have always liked tomboys...and former tomboys! =)
hahaha I totally understand that it was fun, boy or not... I think it would be pretty fun as a little girl as well. You don't think that all girls are little princesses, right?! :P
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@Toothfairy: No, not all little princesses...or big princesses when they grow up. But it is nice to be able to help a damsel every once in a while--I've been diagnosed with white knight syndrome!
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