Posted by SweetFeet on February 28, 2016 at 18:38:44 from (70.35.102.196):
In Reply to: feature night by johnlobb posted by larry@stinescorner on February 28, 2016 at 16:00:42:
A tree down and a lesson learned the hard way.
Son was about 6 years old and everyday he'd ride his bike up by the house and flop it down in front of our steps. I told him he needed to put it away in the toy shed.
He stopped dumping it by the house... we THOUGHT he was putting it in the toy shed.
On late-summer night, straight-line winds blew over a huge Sunburst locust tree in our yard. The snap/crack was so loud that we thought lightening must have struck it but the tree had internal issues (shown by fungi growing on its north side but we were young and didn't know that indicated poor tree health).
One large branch punched a hole in our garage roof.
The trunk fell due east... it knocked our 500 gallon LP tank off its base (which did not leak, thankfully), it pushed a slight permanent tilt into the swing set and it TOTALLY smashed our little son's bike.
Turns out that instead of putting it away - he had been laying his bike out behind the LP tank. Had he put it away in the toy shed, it would have been unharmed.
Moral of the story: "Listen to your mama."
We did make him wait until the following summer to get a new bike.
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