What, No Helmet?
This Fourth of July as I watch the fireworks going off, I’m reminded of my childhood when it wasn’t quite illegal for us to use firecrackers, bottle rockets, and even M80s. Were they scary? Sometimes, and yet my parents never forbade us to use them.
I grew up in the 70s and looking back, it’s a miracle I survived. I never even heard of a helmet for riding a bike, and I’d ditched my training wheels at the tender age of four. We could ride around the neighborhood all day without our parents even questioning where we were going.