Miserable Failure!!!!!!!!

I'm really laughing as I post this. (I guess you had to be there)
46 years ago, I decided that competitive shooting would be fun. I went to the range with my first gun. After the first 6 shots, I looked at the target & it didn't have any holes in it. I had a range employee look at my gun & I said, "This gun is defective; it's not making any holes in the paper; maybe you can tell me what's wrong with it." I noticed he was trying very hard not to laugh. He said, "Let me try it out." He then put 6 holes in the target - all 6 in the same hole. Practice? What's that? Everyone on TV never misses. A few weeks later, I was doing well enough to compete.
 
Just about everything!

Learning to ride a bicycle sticks in my mind.

I remember my cousin and my older brother pushing me back and forth between them and me constantly falling over in the process. Finally, I went off by myself and just figured it out. That has been my tried and true approach to learning how to do most things ever since.
 
Wren said:
It’s actually 16 in the U.K and Canada, (with parental consent) lower I believe in parts of the USA and various other countries
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I suppose many people married young not that long ago. It was considered normal.

People can marry at 17 or 18 with a parents consent but younger if pregnant. A doctors certificate is needed as proof of pregnancy to marry at 16 or younger.
That’s young.
 
Tying my shoe laces
I remember my 1st grade teacher having to come back and tie my shoe
We were on a fieldtrip...to a beaver dam, about a mile from the school
I don't know if he was more pissed or disgusted
I was stuck on this log, half way across the creek
Come to think about it, I think he was more pissed, as he had to cross back over that log to get me.

Oh, and hide and seek

Nobody sought me

maybe I was really good at it

Anyway, once it got dark, most everbody came looking for me
I could hear 'em calling my name... for hours

I'd have said 'here I am'... just didn't know where 'here' was
 
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