A for Ingenuity, F for Common Sense

I was an only child growing up; well, I still am. The only kids that I had to play with were boys. We built forts, raced our bikes around, constructed rope swings to zoom on off of an old shed out back of my house. By far, the best thing that I learned from those boys was how to build a proper bike ramp and use it. I was pretty good at launching myself skyward, if only for a brief second. I thought that I should teach the boys the same. Every kid needs to know how to build a homemade ramp and use it. We scrounged up a huge piece of plywood and some cinder blocks; they loved it! We inadvertently left the wood out in the monsoon we've been dealing with and it rotted. But never one to be thwarted, Gavin set about to construct his own ramp. Maybe I'm not as good a teacher as I fancy myself because this is what he built ...





Yep, a ramp constructed of an old PlayMate cooler, 2 cereal bowls and a 6-inch piece of plywood. As Archie would say, "not too swoft."