People over 35 should be dead.

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[petercooper]

I suppose we did get to play hide'n'seek with the neighborhood kids after dark

we called it ringolevio

[al baby]

we use to fly kites with razors on them and have dog fights

we use to pee in the hirshs pool

[katnip]

Yep. We imagined we were scientists. We planned on inventing a use for it that we could use on our little brother.

[the Deejay]

"We used to jump on our bikes and chase off in the cloud of pesticide fog being sprayed by the city."

Yup. No insects would bother you until after you took a bath. Our parents didn't need to buy OFF! spray.

[MontanaBeth]

I wish I were a kid again (but not one of these modern kids) one of the old time dead kids. What fun we had especially summer time, that lasted forever and each day was a week long. Get home when street lights come on, dirty, tired and hungry. Eat, bath, rejuvenated and play hide and seek or cigarette tag until mom called us in...

[grania]

Do you ever stop to think how this should have culled the herd, so to speak?

Maybe we should live longer on the average than younger folk. We had to make it through survival-of-the-fittest experiences, just like mankind had to from the time of Adam and Eve until about 1970.

[al baby]

We used to play hid and go peek
like playing doctor but differnt

[Exit148]

Firecrackers! Bought them and shot them off. All kinds.

I played with matches, too. Once, when I was about 7 years old, I was under the covers, in my bed -- like a little tent, and was burning matches. My mother smelled them and pulled the covers off and asked what was going on? (She didn't exactly say it that way) There are all these burned out matches, and I said -----"I don't know how they got there!!!!!" LOL!

[NavyCanDo]

I got one more. Flying Bumble Bee kites. That's right. We would soak Bumble Bees with the hose until they could not fly. Then we would tie a string to one of it's legs and when he dried out and flew, wa la! a Bumble Bee kite. We would hang on for as long as we could, before letting it fly off string and all. Would not even consider doing this to a yellow jacket, or wasp, though we did dare each other.

[Ditter]

There are so many things they left out.
I road my horse all over what is now west Houston.
I rode my bicycle miles from home & I did it alone.
I didn't wear shoes from the time school was out till it started again & I didn't die of tetnus when I cut my feet.
I swam in sand pits & didn't drown.
I played outside long after dark & wasn't abducted.
I walked a mile to the bus stop & took the city bus into downtown Houston by myself at age 12.

The scarest thing I did was probably eat food from street vendors.
I can still remember the tamales & how good they were. Those were the days.

[EllaMinnow]

we took our mother's umbrellas and tried to be Mary Poppins jumping off the neighbor's shed roof.

Only tried that once.

[birbear]

Before I knew them, my current crop of friends tell of a day when they made bows and arrows and poison and would shoot at the "nerds" in the neighborhood.

I guess a couple of my friends were watching some nature documentary on TV (this would have been in the early 80s) and it was about how the Native Americans used this particular plant as a poison. One friend said to another, "Hey, that looks like the plant you have in your backyard." So they investigated, and sure enough it was...so the made a concoction of the sap from the plant, and then one said to the other, "I wonder if it really works." So, of course they had to test it. One spread the mixture on one of his home made arrows and then stabbed himself in the leg with it. Immediately his leg began twitching and convulsing...and then he said it felt like it just went to sleep, and he couldn't move it for about 15 minutes.

They decided it was pretty cool and wouldn't get them into too much trouble, so they loaded up their bows, arrows, and poison and went nerd hunting.


Today these guys are actually some of the most repsonible and nicest people i know.

[Rooivalk]

Had television heroes like Sheriff John and Engineer Bill. I still remember songs like..."look both ways before you cross the street, use your eyes and then your feet....."

And Davy Crockett told us: " Be sure you're right and then go ahead"

[Big Giant Head]

I rode my bicycle miles from home & I did it alone.

Oh, yeah, I did that too. I also used to hitch-hike to a town 40 miles away while mom and dad were at work. I had a buddy up there. Sometimes I would ask the person that picked me up to let me out ahead of the train that ran along the highway. Then I'd hop the last car of the train and ride it for miles. There were days when I didn't even make it home. I was 15, i think.

[MontanaBeth]

"Had television heroes like Sheriff John and Engineer Bill"


Engineer Bill read my name off his get well list and then he'd ring his bell, I had my tonsils out.

[Ditter]

I was warned about hitch hiking (I am a girl). %;9)

[Rooivalk]

"Engineer Bill read my name off his get well list and then he'd ring his bell, I had my tonsils out."

Bet you played redlight-greenlight with a glass of milk too...

[MontanaBeth]

lol, red light green light, I forgot about that, yes I did drink a glass of milk with Eng. Bill.

[Types_with_Fist]

What about those of us between 30-35?

Sorry. This is for us old farts. 30-35? You youngin'!...:-)

[R. Scott]

Yep!
Oh for the Bad Old Days!
How did we survive?