Quote Originally Posted by odd one View Post
Just like squirrels.
Squirrels have the excuse that they're very short-sighted, and have brains the size of a small walnut. Human kids don't. But they do believe they're immortal and impervious. Which they're not.

I'm told that when I was about 4, I walked into the house shaking my head and muttering. "I don't understand it. I just don't understand it." Grandma asked what I didn't understand. She says I told her that I walked out in the street and didn't get run over by a car. She lived at the intersection of Leland and Leffingwell Roads in South Whittier. Both very busy streets, but Leffingwell was a 4-lane in the early 60's. She'd always told me that if I walked out into the street I'd get run over by a car. She was a crossing guard for the school down the road, and had one student die in her arms after being hit by a car, and prevented a few more of those accidents. It's a wonder that any child survives childhood if they're all like I was back then.