Years ago my son bought a brand new Gary Fisher Joshua mountain bike. Since he was working that day, he offered it to me to ride with my regular Saturday morning mountain bike group. I told him that I couldn't ride his bike before he had a chance to ride it. "What if I wipe out and scratch it up?"
Dad, he said, it's a mountain bike. You're supposed to wipe out and tear it up."
Made me proud. I'm still proud of him.
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My greatest fear is all of my kids standing around my coffin and talking about "how sensible" dad was.