Things you did as a kid that your kids will never do

petros

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ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomg I had forgotten about that...

they will never hear the ding alert when they pull into a gas station...nor will they ever get their windows washed or a free oil check

Not so. Full service is still full service at CO-OP.
 

Blackleaf

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Things you did as a kid that your kids will never do

Watch Button Moon (1981-1988 ).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0o6u1VmGE&feature=player_detailpage


Button Moon - The Three Pigs - YouTube



Choose, and then enjoy, a Woolworths Pick n Mix.

 

captain morgan

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Crazy carpets were the beginning of plastic childhood, my generation used flat wooden things called toboggans. Skate blades were made of flint.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, could come close to beating an old tractor inner tube on the slopes.

3 or 4 guys on that thing provided for extra speed and momentum.... Hit a low dip in the run, or a well-crafted jump at the bottom of the run and it was like jumping off a trampoline off the back of a truck doing 40 klicks.

It's amazing that no one ever got seriously injured
 

petros

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Haley's Comet

Nothing, and I mean nothing, could come close to beating an old tractor inner tube on the slopes.

3 or 4 guys on that thing provided for extra speed and momentum.... Hit a low dip in the run, or a well-crafted jump at the bottom of the run and it was like jumping off a trampoline off the back of a truck doing 40 klicks.

It's amazing that no one ever got seriously injured
truck hoods are faster
 

Sal

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Haley's Comet
yeah and they'll never wonder about the correct pronunciation either...I can't even remember which way is right anymore, I think it was a hard "a" and now it's a soft "a"
 

#juan

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3 mojos for a penny.

I really liked mojos

We got three Jawbreakers...Gop Stoppers for a penny.


Anybody touch their tongue to the flag pole at minus thirty.......what fun.....:roll:
 

Locutus

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I do recall some of those playground merry-go-rounds things (and some without horizontal base plates either) that we'd get going to about 10,000 RPM...kids were being flung off hither and yon like some cartoon show man. Our own centrifuge.
 

DaSleeper

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Practicing ricochet shooting with the ol' .22 rifle.....


Going fishing during the spring run with bottles a quarter full of quick lime with a hole punched in the bottle cap, then jumping in the creek to pick up the fish before they wake up.