Surviving Stupid: A Comical Look at Growing up in Rural Manitoba - Hardcoverby Mark Parsons (Author) What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and as kids we thought we were invulnerable, unbeatable, immortal. We did so many crazy and dangerous things that could have should have killed us, all in the name of entertainment. Somehow, we survived. Surviving Stupid strings together a series of short stories and anecdotes about all the stupid stuff we got up to back in the days when we were thrown out of the house and told not to