After Elon and Kimbal moved in with their father in suburban Pretoria,
Maye moved to nearby Johannesburg so the family could be closer
together. On Fridays, she would drive to Errol’s house to pick up the
boys. They would then go see their grandmother, the indomitable
Winnifred Haldeman, who cooked a chicken stew the kids hated so much
that Maye would take them out for pizza     afterward.
埃隆和金巴爾搬到比勒陀利亞郊區與父親同住後，梅伊搬到了附近的約翰內斯堡，這樣一家人就能更近地團聚。每週五，她都會開車去埃羅爾家接孩子們。孩子們非常討厭奶奶做的燉雞，所以梅伊之後會帶他們去吃披薩。

Elon
and Kimbal usually spent the night at the house next door to their
grandmother’s, where Maye’s sister Kaye Rive and her three boys lived.
The five cousins—Elon and Kimbal Musk and Peter, Lyndon, and Russ
Rive—became an adventurous and occasionallycontentious bevy of bucks.
Maye was more indulgent and less protective than her sister, so they
would conspire with her when plotting an adventure. “If we wanted to do
something like go to a concert in Johannesburg, she would say to her
sister, I’m going to go take them to church camp this evening,” says
Kimbal. “Then she would drop us off and we would go do our mischief.”
埃隆和金巴爾通常在祖母家隔壁的房子過夜，那裡住著梅的姐姐凱伊·裡夫和她的三個兒子。五個堂兄妹——埃隆和金巴爾·馬斯克以及彼得、林登和拉斯·裡夫——成了一個愛冒險、偶爾也會爭吵的小夥伴。梅伊比姐姐更放縱，保護欲也更弱，所以他們在策劃冒險時會與姐姐合謀。"金巴爾說："如果我們想去約翰內斯堡聽音樂會之類的活動，她就會對妹妹說，今天晚上我要帶她們去教堂露營。"然後她會把我們放下，我們就會去做我們的惡作劇。"

Those
trips could be dangerous. “I remember once when the train stopped,
there was an immense fight, and we watched a guy get stabbed through the
head,” says Peter Rive. “We were hiding inside the car, then the doors
closed, and we were like moving on.” Sometimes a gang would board the
train to hunt down rivals, rampaging through the cars shooting machine
guns. Some of the concerts were anti-apartheid protests, such as one in
1985 in Johannesburg that drew 100,000 people. Often brawls would break
out. “We didn’t try to hide from the violence, we became survivors of
it,” says Kimbal. “It taught us to not be afraid but also to not do
crazy things.”
這些旅行可能很危險。"彼得-裡夫說："我記得有一次，火車停了下來，雙方大打出手，我們眼睜睜地看著一個人被刺穿了腦袋。"我們躲在車廂裡，然後車門關上了，我們就像繼續前進。"有時，一個幫派會登上火車追殺對手，用機槍在車廂裡掃射。有些音樂會是反種族隔離的抗議活動，例如1985年在約翰內斯堡舉行的一場音樂會吸引了10萬人參加。經常會發生鬥毆事件。"金巴爾說："我們沒有試圖躲避暴力，而是成為了暴力的倖存者。"它教會了我們不要害怕，但也不要做瘋狂的事情"。

Elon
developed a reputation for being the most fearless. When the cousins
went to a movie and people were making noise, he would be the one to go
over and tell them to be quiet, even if they were much bigger. “It’s a
big theme for him to never have his decisions guided by fear,” Peter
recalls. “That was definitely present even when he was a child.”
埃隆因最無所畏懼而聲名遠播。當表兄妹們去看電影時，如果有人大聲喧譁，他就會走過去讓他們安靜下來，即使他們比他大得多。"彼得回憶說："對他來說，永遠不要讓恐懼左右他的決定，這是一個很大的主題。"即使在他小時候，這一點也絕對存在。

He
was also the most competitive of the cousins. One time when they were
riding their bicycles from Pretoria to Johannesburg, Elon was way out in
front, pedaling fast. So the others pulled over and hitched a ride in a
pickup truck. When Elon rejoined them, he was so angry that he started
hitting them. It was a race, he said, and they had cheated.
他也是表兄弟中最爭強好勝的一個。有一次，他們騎著腳踏車從比勒陀利亞前往約翰內斯堡，埃隆走在最前面，蹬得飛快。於是其他人把車停在路邊，搭上了一輛皮卡車。當埃隆重新回到他們身邊時，他非常生氣，開始打他們。他說，這是一場比賽，他們作弊了。

Such
fights were common. Often they would happen in public, the boys
oblivious to their surroundings. One of the many that Elon and Kimbal
had was at a country fair. “They were wrestling and punching each other
in the dust,” Peter recalls. “People were freaking out, and I had to say
to the crowd, ‘This is not a big deal. These guys are brothers.’ ”
Although the fights were usually over small things, they could get
vicious. “The way to win was to be the first person to punch or kick the
other guy in the balls,” Kimbal says. “That would end the fight because
you can’t continue if you get crunched in the balls.”

這樣的打架事件屢見不鮮。他們經常在公共場合打架，男孩們對周圍的環境視而不見。埃隆和金巴爾的一次鬥毆發生在一個鄉村集市上。"彼得回憶說："他們扭打在一起，拳腳相加。"人們都嚇壞了，我不得不對人群說：'這沒什麼大不了的。他們是兄弟。"雖然打架通常是為了小事，但也會變得很兇狠。"Kimbal說："獲勝的方法是第一個拳打腳踢對方蛋蛋的人。"這將結束戰鬥，因為如果你的蛋蛋被揍扁了，你就無法繼續下去了"。