Quote - climbing  upto the roof on the outside of a 4 story apt. in Chicago, at 9.
 How did we survive?

OMG! That reminded me of something! I think I was 7 years old or so. We lived in an older 3 story house. The second floor had a window that overlooked the roof at the back of the house. If you climbed out that window and shimmied up the iron  drain pipe you could get to the top roof which was very high and very steep!  Once up there you could make your way to the front of the house by standing up and hanging on really tight to the roof peak and slowly working your way around to the front. After that you had to sit with your feet in the eavestrough so you didn't slide off! One day my mom came home to find me and my brother (5 years older than me) up on the top roof dropping water balloons on people walking on the sidewalk in front of our house!

Oh man! Did we ever get into trouble!  LOL

We did all kinds of crazy things when we were kids. Looking back my mom's heart probably ended up in her throat more than once because of us! 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi