Well, I'm not gonna BS ya, 'cause my friends and I did some remarkably crazy shit as a kid, but we did have enough sense to know we'd get burned for it if we got caught with anything weaponlike at school.
Yah like to gave my dad a heart attack when I was 13 prehaps.
We had an exchange student from Peru that came to our school, a boy my age that for some reason did not make friends. He did look different from us and appeared to be way out of water. Poor kid everyone avoided him until one day I sat at his table in the lunch room and asked him who he was. Right or wrong thing to do in the 1960's .
He was more then willing to tell me about his life and I had no choice but to find out---Curious minds you know.
I was too young to date but the kid had some really fascinating storeys to tell me, what fun, I became his only friend.
One day he gave me a divice he said was carried in his country for protection and he for some reason thought I should have it. He showed me how to operate the device and to all ways have it on me for protection.
Back then there was no need for protection and I brought it home. At dinner that night my parents asked me about school how my day went, and I at the diningroom table asked my dad about the divice. I handed it to him and he darn near fell off his chair.
Seems the device was a switch blade and not the kind of thing a 13 year girl old brings home from school every day. I returned the device to the boy and learned a good lesson in life, never ever go to parents about anything that is odd or unusual--they freek out, get strange., they wanted no information on anything.
I had to keep this in mind as I raised my 4 kids. When a kid trusts you enough to bring you something they do not understand, keep your cool , ask question that you know the kids have the ability to answer.
