[CaptainCrunch]

I can still remember the ultimate dumba$$ moment of my life, when my dad came out of the house to have a smoke, and I was starring up at the roof of the garage, and he asked me what I was thinking about. Without taking an eye off of the roof I told him that I was going to jump off of it. So seeing that I had a lot of energy he made me paint the fence for a couple of days.

He thought I forgot about it until he got that call at work in the middle of the winter, that I had jumped off the roof into a snow bank and busted my ankle.

So he rushed home to pick me up, and he took one look at the hole in the snowbank that I'd hurtled through, and then laughed at me all the way to the hospital.

I remember taking a slap shot to the sack when playing ball hockey, and nobody asked me if I was all right, they stood around and laughed at me as I squirmed on the ground.

Or me and a buddy deciding to climb one of the sandy cliff faces at Fish Creek, and we got near to the top and he lost that grip and tumbled down, even though I heard his wrist snap, it was funny because he landed face first in a mud puddle.

Or my first major knee injury, when I decided to go down Lake Bonavista on a crazy carpet, veered into the tree line and ran knee first into a tree dislocating my knee cap, and I thought it was cool.

Or the day of Grade 10 math finals which was a subject that I had to do well in, getting into a fight on the way and tumbling down the stairs at Scarlett and breaking my ankle, and still writing the final before walking back to Lake Bonavista because I missed the bus.

Man we were stupid.