Nowadays, the kids drive ATVs at a tender age, as evidenced by this improbable story in yesterday's Houston Chronicle:
5-year-old boy's kill: gator 20 times his size http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/moms/6645997.html ...Simon learned to drive all-terrain vehicles and shoot firearms when he was only 4. So he was primed and ready to go on an alligator hunt this past weekend with his father, Scott Hughes, a sixth-generation rancher, and hunting guide Chuck CottonSimon had a new junior-sized .410-gauge shotgun. ..“That's the way it is in rural areas,” Scott Hughes said. “We don't think of guns as playthings or something used in videogames.” Must have been different for Southern city boys back when I was a kid: we generally weren't allowed to own guns or have have unrestricted access to them until we were 13 or 14 back in the early Sixties. But I knew about the rural tractor-driving, and boy was I jealous! Roger Moore Greater Houston Grotto -----Original Message----- From: Gill Edigar <gi...@att.net> Riding back there was a normal as 10 year olds driving the tractor to town because they didn't need the license they didn't have to drive a car on the street but there were no restrictions on tractors. --Ediger On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> wrote: When I think of the fun I had when I was a kid doing things that are now illegal.... -- Mixon ------------------------- --------------- The world did not end yesterday, as I had predicted. I regret any inconvenience. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
