Haha, no, beleive it or not, I couldn't actually fit on a 'proper' bmx until I was like 13.
Gramey, that is ace, and soooo true.
Things are taken far to seriously now. I remember we used to fall over at school all the time ( like you do) and then one year, the school actually thought about aboloshing playtimes, because a kid fell at school (well, fell off a fence because he was stupid enough to climb all 16ft or so when it was raining) and he broke his elbow. The kids parents then decided to sue the school..and won. So they actually thought about stopping us playing out.
One of my mates fell and broke his wrist, because we found a frozen puddle (a big one) and decided to use it as a huge slide. he got off balance fell backwards and used his wrist to cussion his landing. All that happened (because his parents had common sense) was that he got picked up by his mum, got a slap around the head (we all laughed) and took to hospital. no sueing of the school or anything like that....beacuse these, things, happen!
The world has gone claim mad!
I know its different, but schools have now got rid of the 'nit nurse' because a parent could see it as 'child abuse'
so we now have to spend £30 a week through the summer on shampoo etc. cos some poor kids parent can't be arsed to sort his hair out. They're probably too busy smoking, drinking and breaking into their 'working neighbours' house, to actually have to look after their 10 kids!!