collateral damage
when i was a child(and even now), i was very clumsy, falling over and hurting myself almost daily.
one day, whilst shopping with my mum, i tripped over my shoelace. i fell to the floor, smashing my knee into the concrete.
of course, i immediately started bawling.
"look at that!" my mum says, "you've made a hole in the floor!"
she only said it to make me laugh, but to my tiny child's mind it was not funny. it wasn't until many years later that i finally told her why i cried even harder at this: i thought the council were going to charge me for fixing the "hole".
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 21:01, 4 replies)

Aaaaaah
Oh you poor little thing! I swear parents cause accidental trauma to kids all the time just in everyday parent-logic that they don't realise will scare the shit out of you ...
(Killer Vanilla puts the win in Darwin, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 22:06, closed)

what worries me most
is i displayed more adult logic back then than i do now!
of course, i'd never heard of b3ta then ;)
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 23:26, closed)

The best thing is that
you knew what the council were, and that they repaired the paving! Better than mine manage, arf arf ...
(Killer Vanilla puts the win in Darwin, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 23:49, closed)

i got my own back
they crushed my foot and broke 3 toes with a 3-ton concrete sewage pipe, so i sued them. that'll teach them not to hire security guards that let kids roll around in their pipes! :D
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:41, closed)