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

[damngrumpy]

I made and used firecracker guns with old lead pipe a plugged elbow and a small
cut slot on the thread line. Used the old yellow and black cannon firecrackers and
filled it with bee bees they made a lot of hole in watermelons and pumpkins

 

[JLM]

I made and used firecracker guns with old lead pipe a plugged elbow and a small
cut slot on the thread line. Used the old yellow and black cannon firecrackers and
filled it with bee bees they made a lot of hole in watermelons and pumpkins

My friend's dad was a logging contractor and kept a supply of stumping powder in a shed. One night when we were about 12 or 13 we brought a couple of sticks up to my place and threw them on a bonfire. Great fun to watch.

 

[lone wolf]

Used a rotary phone, wind-up clock, phone book and yellow pages, Perlys, and defrosted the freezer.

I still have Perley's.... '75 BJ Executive Edition. Used it a long time. Getting the know of the city helped. I trusted my Perly's. Took directions for the other stuff.

Last time I was down in Big Smoke, that freakin' Perly's was sooo out of date!

 

[JLM]

We used to take our toy guns, including cap guns to school to play Cowboys and Indians at recess and after lunch. (Do that today and the R.C.M.P. commissioner from Ottawa would be there on the next plane) -

 

[lone wolf]

Politically correct meant "Don't chew gum in class."

 

[JLM]

Refused to spend $500 for an electronic calculator to perform simple math.

 

[gopher]

Old New York street games:


New York Street Games


stoop ball:

I was the Champion of Sheffield Avenue!



And was fairly good at skellies:

and one old cat:



Old cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





Man, do these things bring back some old memories for me!!!!!

 

[JLM]

Politically correct meant "Don't chew gum in class."

Hasn't that morphed into a crock of sh*t!

 

[55Mercury]

get their butts kicked for givin' their parents guff.

 

[JLM]

Got strapped by the teacher at school for being a little bugger and then living in absolute terror for a week or so in mortal fear that the old man would find out about it and give me a licking 10 times worse than the one administered by the teacher!

 

[spaminator]

At the school they encouraged us to laugh and taunt and hit the kids who soiled themselves because they were forbidden to go to the bathroom and all the dairy they fed us played hell with our digestion (most Indians are lactose intolerant). Just their little way of making us the savages they saw us as.

omg that is so humiliating, so terribly sad... and they were adults

I remember junior kindergarten and this one kid peed himself and we were so little, 5 years old, going to school all day...it was a Catholic School and we had to offer a lot up to god...ya know like sacrifice things...so he peed himself because washroom breaks were few and far between and omfg...this poor little guy...and then I was so, so scared I would soil myself too...and I remember the same little guy puking in grade 3 and it ran all down the black board...terrible...parents didn't come pick you up in those days...you felt super duper alone and scared...I remember a lot of fear.

one kid her name was Anne, she had an appendicitis attack and walked home at lunch all stooped over...I remember a kid who lived near her and was the top female bully actually took care of her so she could make it home...when she got home she was taken straight for surgery...I remember looking at Debbie the school bully in a whole new way. Was still scared of her but was really surprised she did the right thing and felt even more ashamed when she scared me enough to do the wrong thing.

i'm sorry to hear that.

 

[El Barto]

Hasn't that morphed into a crock of sh*t!

Only when you swallowed the gum

 

[relic]

Bottle of pop for seven cents, and you got a two cents back for the bottle. Riding on the crossbar of your friends bicycle . How many of you still have the A&W mug ?

 

[Locutus]

Old New York street games:


New York Street Games


stoop ball:

I was the Champion of Sheffield Avenue!



And was fairly good at skellies:

and one old cat:



Old cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





Man, do these things bring back some old memories for me!!!!!

Man gopher, you must be an old bugger. :lol:

 

[taxslave]

Drinking beer at the lake and blasting stray logs with a handgun. Although some of them might get to play cowboys &indians with air nailers.

 

[55Mercury]

Drinking beer at the lake and blasting stray logs with a handgun. Although some of them might get to play cowboys &indians with air nailers.

I remember having pellet gun war games where we used little hard berries to shoot at each other.

can you say 'ow'?

 

[taxslave]

I remember having pellet gun war games where we used little hard berries to shoot at each other.

can you say 'ow'?

We played cowboys & indians with pellet guns a few times. Until some idiot had to go to the hospital to get a pellet removed. Then our pellet guns got removed.

 

[Locutus]

Yeah, using the Daisy air rifle and sucking up sand and gravel into it...

How 'bout (with our old single gear bikes) having contests to see who could lay down the longest skid mark under braking. Worked best on older asphalt.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Yeah, using the Daisy air rifle and sucking up sand and gravel into it...

How 'bout (with our old single gear bikes) having contests to see who could lay down the longest skid mark under braking. Worked best on older asphalt.

I'm pretty confident you had the biggest skidmarks in your neighbourhood. Possibly in Canada.

 

[Locutus]

I'm pretty confident you had the biggest skidmarks in your neighbourhood. Possibly in Canada.

Your fly is open again.