From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 11:42:27 PST
At 11:53 PM -0500 11/15/02, GOTAM35 wrote:
>Next: Not all people will treat your stuff like it was theirs. Actually
>they will treat it like it's theirs, not yours. I was amazed at the number
>of children, with parents in tow, that would climb into my truck and start
>pulling and twisting everything they could get their hands on. I can report
>nothing was damaged, but it is a deuce. They're not known to be fragile.
>Some one did sit or stand on one of the rods that hold the top off your head
>and bent it. It was easy to straiten. These kids climbed all over it. I
>was concerned someone would bet hurt more than anything. Sure enough I
>watch one kid swing the gun around and whack another kid in the head with
>it. He was so happy it didn't phase him. I had to unhook the battery even
>though I have a key to keep it from cranking. I walked up to it Saturday
>and could hear the horn solenoid clicking.
>
>And finally: My thought provoking question of the day.
>Please, this is a "A" or "B" question. No essay questions here. Is it
>better to:
>A. Let the children have a run on the truck and do what every they want as
>long as no one gets hurt or nothing is damaged or,
>
>B. Keep them on the ground, look at it only, don't touch.
I'll let kids up into my ferret or dingo, but, they're closely
supervised and I show the the power of the hatches to break fingers.
That usualyl keeps their fingers off of things they don't understand.
>
>I was a little disturbed at how the children would grad the gun and point it
>at someone. That's not the kind of thing I wanted them to day dream about.
>I'm not sure if I will let anyone else get in the truck.
That's where you explain that the gun is not a toy and that they
shouldn't point it at anyone. A pointed look at their parents usually
helps.
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