Playing at Construction Sites When We Were Young

Playing around construction sites is what we kids did.   And getting seriously hurt at these sites was part of it.  Also, next door to the bus station and next door to the Clay Homes the federal government had a school built to teach men returning from WWII a trade.   After the workers  left for the day we would go over to the site and play.  There was a stack of wired fence in cylinder shape.  We found it was fun to get a cylinder shape wire roll out in the open, turn it on its side and walk on it.  It is a tricky thing to do and could easily get your mind confused, sort of like blowing bubble gum and dong a task at the time - you mind could only take on one task at a time at that age.  My sister Frances was walking a bale of wire and something went wrong and the fell. 

Her arm was twisted.   I ran home to tell my folks. 

I told Daddy: "Frances fell off a roll of wire and hurt herself.  Her arm has a big dent in it!"  Daddy jumped a foot up in the air from the chair and ran down to check.  It was more than a dent, her bone was protruding. 

The doctors  she would never   use that arm again.  But Daddy had different ideas.  He got her a rubber ball and had her to continuously squeeze it with her bad arm.  It time, it paid off.  In a few years it was good as new.