LOL! I so hear you! They simply did not watch us like we watch our kids today. My neighbor got a minibike. We got ahold of some construction spikes, those w 2X wooden stakes they use to mark boundries…they’re cut to a point at one end. We’d ride around on the minibike in the empty lot next to my neighbor’s house and THROW SPEARS AT KIDS HIDING IN THE GRASS!! All any adult had to do was look out the window to see us! But they never did.
Same here. I only brought the more serious owies to Mom. The rest we just shook off.
I seriously cut the top of my ankle on a bike fender. I knew it was bad because I could see my tendon moving back and forth in my ankle as I hobbled home. I could have hooked my finger in there and twanged it! It was cool.
I went in the back door to the kitchen where Mom and Dad were talking and said, “Mom!”
She never was good at hearing the inflection in the voices and she said, “Don’t interrupt!”
“MOM!!!” I yelled! That got her attention.