Childhood Games from the 70s/80s..?

Fittle

So I was telling my young lad about skipping and rounders and hopscotch and kick the can etc - he plays out on the road all day, and was looking for games to play other than football. And a game we used to play came to mind - I'm hoping someone remembers this, because it seems a bit bizarre to me now, but I definitely remember playing it!!

So one child would sit on a chair. Three or four other kids would press their hands down on that childs head (pretty hard) and say 'There's been an accident...On the highway...X was in it...' and something else.

When you'd take your hands off the head, you'd then put two fingers under the kids legs and lift them off the chair - somehow, they became very, very light with the pressure of the hands on their head!!!!!!!!

Does anyone remember that 'game' or am I losing my mind entirely????

artvandulet

yeah, it wasnt a game though really, more a trick.
There was some backstory you'd tell - kind of a ghost story as far as I recall, probably a different story depending on what group of people were doing it. I remember waving all our hands over their head saying they were light etc etc
Anyway, basically, about 4 of you end up lifting the person off the chair with just two fingers each. Index and middle finger of one hand of each person under the knees and armpits.

Fittle

Excellent!! I thought I was imagining it for a minute lol - yes, we'd tell a ghost story and then do this...mental!!! I wonder was it a northside Dublin thing;)

Sids Not

Fittle wrote: »

So one child would sit on a chair. Three or four other kids would press their hands down on that childs head (pretty hard) and say 'There's been an accident...On the highway...X was in it...' and something else.

When you'd take your hands off the head, you'd then put two fingers under the kids legs and lift them off the chair - somehow, they became very, very light with the pressure of the hands on their head!!!!!!!!

Does anyone remember that 'game' or am I losing my mind entirely????

Huge health and safety issues here....best to keep them indoors on the pc and feed them junk food.....:p

Merrilady

Oooooo I remember that, hahahaha forgotten about it till now.
Deadly is was

sheamusD12

Hi, had a conversation today about childhood games that used to be played as kids and how in some ways there lessons. one game in praticular we got talking about and the type of lessons learned. IRA. two teams, one has a code word the other has to figure it out. the team that trys to figure it out chases the opposeing team, captures members and essentially beats them up to get the code. if the kid who gets caught doesn't break his/her team wins.


Any way does any one know how old this game is, was it always played in dublin or did it pop up with the troubles in the north?
was it always called IRA?
is there comparable games in other countries?

just curiosity