re: Building Forts...Classic Childhood Pastime

We built one in Tara in the lot next to us when we were the only house on the block. In a wax myrtle. We just kept adding on to it until it was 4 rooms and about 20 feet high. There was a sweet gum next to it that you could leap out and grab and it would bend you down to the ground. I was the genius that figured that one out. Some older kids from the next block over came and threw rocks at us for a while. When they left we got our BB guns and opened up on them when they returned. It was quite the neighborhood incident. A few days later we went and trashed their fort at night and nailed the doors shut. It was a sad day when the developer that owned the lot leveled our fort with a bulldozer. The culture we have now of hyper-safety just sucks.