The earliest things I learned, on my own, I think.
1. Don't load your new gun in the house while your bragging about it to your brothers. [Before age 5]
2. Don't get into an argument with the 12 year old guy who lives on the third floor and you are in the back yard looking up. [Before age 5]
3. Don't get so angry that you can't (or won't) dodge a flying tin can.
[See #2]
4. Don't fall in love with the girl next door until you really get to know her. [Before age 6]
5. Don't mess with your uncles when they are baby-sitting you.
[Before age 7]
6. Your mother really gets some things right, some times. [Before age 7]
7. Rhubarb sure is SOUR. [Before age 7]
8. Tomatoes are fruit. [Before age 7]
9. People you like die. [Before age 7]
10. There is no Santa Claus [Before age 8]
11. Diapers are easy to change, even if you have to learn how to use safety pins first. Which I did. [Before age 8]
12. Don't eat a banana for breakfast and then go directly to the community swimming pool. [Before age 8] I should have listened to Mom
13. Swallowing your bus fare can almost kill you. [A month or so before age 9]
14. If you're going to kill the "Cock of the Roost" out of frustration, resist that temptation. Talk it over with your father first. [Before age 12, I think]
I don't think I missed any. I learned a lot of things, but here I tried to remember the things that "came to me" either by introspection or spontaneous experience. Of course, some of them are humorous... but then that is life, now, isn't it?
1. Don't load your new gun in the house while your bragging about it to your brothers. [Before age 5]
2. Don't get into an argument with the 12 year old guy who lives on the third floor and you are in the back yard looking up. [Before age 5]
3. Don't get so angry that you can't (or won't) dodge a flying tin can.
[See #2]
4. Don't fall in love with the girl next door until you really get to know her. [Before age 6]
5. Don't mess with your uncles when they are baby-sitting you.
[Before age 7]
6. Your mother really gets some things right, some times. [Before age 7]
7. Rhubarb sure is SOUR. [Before age 7]
8. Tomatoes are fruit. [Before age 7]
9. People you like die. [Before age 7]
10. There is no Santa Claus [Before age 8]
11. Diapers are easy to change, even if you have to learn how to use safety pins first. Which I did. [Before age 8]
12. Don't eat a banana for breakfast and then go directly to the community swimming pool. [Before age 8] I should have listened to Mom
13. Swallowing your bus fare can almost kill you. [A month or so before age 9]
14. If you're going to kill the "Cock of the Roost" out of frustration, resist that temptation. Talk it over with your father first. [Before age 12, I think]
I don't think I missed any. I learned a lot of things, but here I tried to remember the things that "came to me" either by introspection or spontaneous experience. Of course, some of them are humorous... but then that is life, now, isn't it?
Haha, very well done Father O'Mine
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