Things we did when we were young playing

hollster2

Things we did when we were young

I remember everyday out playing I had to climb a tree without fail, spending hours up there I Was such a tomboy when I think of it!

We used to stand on walls playing gladiators to see who could destroy one another off it!! ( I always had be jet ) lol

playing hide n seek how you would cheat and stand right beside were the person was standing to be safe!

1ZRed

Spending hours down the fields

Reoil

Very nice.

Melion

Mmmmmm Jet

donvito99

Jumped from one cushion to another in the sitting room, wrecking the place, because the floor had suddenly become sea (not lava, it was sea back then).

the groutch

hollster2 wrote: »

We used to stand on walls playing gladiators to see who could destroy one another off it!! ( I always had be jet ) lol

sigh of relief when I saw your avatar and realised you're a woman.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Keep secrets.






I don't wanna talk about it.

LizT

Tried to make a fort using chairs, cushions and sheets. It never worked out properly

DonkeyStyle \o/

Getting empty cardboard boxes from the supermarket, stacking them up at home in the garden and doing shítty flying kicks into them.
Also feeling like a bad-ass doing karate chops on bits of polystyrene.

xLexie

Cycling with no hands on the bars.

Playing "dead" with my little brother. Whoever was dead couldn't move or laugh and whoever was alive had to try make the dead person laugh, the only rule was no tickling, and your nose only ever itched when it was your turn to be dead >:(

Always being in goals because I didnt know how to play hurling so instead I had to stand in goals fending off flying balls. Nowhere near as fun as it sounds now.

Being able to climb onto the garage roof and climb really high apple trees. Sitting up the top of the tree waving down at my dad as he looked around to see where we were. Good times.

.Henry Sellers.

Make Gallybanders.

xzanti

I would never use gates always had to climb over the wall... such a little tomboy!!

seven_eleven

Put cinder blocks on train tracks.

Bad Santa

Well, I was a doctor and eh..

Princess Zelda

Kerbsies.

Played a game of it last year when the weather was good with the mam. Kids around the street had never heard of it. Madness.

johnners2981

The priest

MurdyWurdy

Pouring all your lego out all over the floor to find a three-er blue bit (or whatever other tiny bit you needed)

MurdyWurdy

Princess Zelda wrote: »

Kerbsies.

Played a game of it last year when the weather was good with the mam. Kids around the street had never heard of it. Madness.

My young cousins still play kerbsies outside with the other kids in the estate. Was nice to see

Bummppd

Shop/Jumble sales..Finding all the broken or old toys and books ya had setting them all up in the garden and selling them to your friends to get money for Super hoopers and Touch downs!!

cantdecide

We learned to smoke. Ahhh God be with the days...

/cough

Logical_Bear

going hunting for rats on the dodder river armed with a black widow catapult and a ballbearings or marbles.Then we'd try and nick some cakes from the johnston,mooney and obrien bakery in ballsbridge before legging it into herbert park!

bobwilliams

smoking the hog weed
sniffing tinners
home made boat(stick) races along the river
playing span

JupiterKid

Obstacle course in our back garden - a feeble attempt to copy the cool one on The Krypton Factor but fun for a bunch of 9 year olds.

Doing "wheelies" on my BMX and wheelie competitions with mates.

Parents getting a new washing machine and playing with the huge cardboard box - making it a little shed/fort. Fun with just a box for days on end!

Being allowed out to play on the streets/greens/fields behind our estate. Are any children actually allowed beyond their front gates these days?:(

Brendan Flowers

Spending hours playing with the tap/hose at the back of the house!

razorgil

collecting tyres for the bonfire in june. hiding them in our garden sheds 'til bonfire night, so neighbouring estates didn't nick 'em!!

Wattle

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

reap-a-rat

We had lino in the hall and it was a longish one, so we used to spray Mr Sheen all over it and slide along for hours on end. Great fun altogether!

D1stant

Finding revyclable chewing gum mashed into the road. Once you got the bits of tarmac out it was yummy ( so says my deluded memory cell )

Spunge

seven_eleven wrote: »

Put cinder blocks on train tracks.

w-what

is that safe ?

i remember i put a few mandarin sized rocks on a traintrack in wexford, then for the next few hours i kept imagining the train derailining, was getting kinda scared.

seven_eleven

Spunge wrote: »

w-what

is that safe ?

i remember i put a few mandarin sized rocks on a traintrack in wexford, then for the next few hours i kept imagining the train derailining, was getting kinda scared.

Ah it twas grand! Rocks are grand too.

Picking up all the grass cuttings from the green, and laying them in lines across the road....except we hid glass bottles under them.

Those were the days.

Twilightning

Jamming a plastic bottle at the top of the back wheel of your bike so it made a really cool noise as you pedalled (although the friction made pedalling harder!)

BillyMitchel

Play IRA around the block. One team would pick a word and the other team would chase them and give whatever torture to the person so you would get the letter and then the team would try put the word together.

As we reached our teenage years we split into boys and girls teams and you'd always chase the chick you wanted to kiss. So when you caught them you'd threaten to stick your tongue down their throat. If they said go ahead you were we'll in and the game would be focked off. Many of our young loves started this way!

Knick nacks to some crazy people on the road, drive them mad and get chased all night.

I hate being a grown up

The Road Runner

Tip the can, Kerbs, knick knack, making ramps for bikes (non of that wearing helmets and stuff)

hefferboi

seven_eleven wrote: »

Ah it twas grand! Rocks are grand too.

Picking up all the grass cuttings from the green, and laying them in lines across the road....except we hid glass bottles under them.

Those were the days.

You were a bit of a pup when you were a child?

Randall Floyd

Jumpers for goalposts, rubbing the ball in dogs muck and getting your friend to head it...marvelous days.

Rasheed

Hide and seek in the hay shed, jumping into bog holes, picnics in the forest.

admiralofthefleet

made a gat

razorgil

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

made a gat

pardon my ignorance, but what was that?

Los Lobos

The Road Runner wrote: »

Tip the can, Kerbs, knick knack, making ramps for bikes (non of that wearing helmets and stuff)

Ah tip the can great days, although we called it kick the can in the bog, even though we had neither a can, or something to kick. Was usually an area you had to snake into.

Would love a game now!

0ph0rce0

When the wooden floors went in, Spraying them with shít loads of polish and sliding the fúck outta that floor

Or

Using the mattress from the bed to sit on while flying down the stairs

Oh and TOPPING Girls

I am pie

Running the length of the street through the neighbours back gardens, hopping over or through fences and hedges.

Little rats, I'd say a few of the neighbours would have liked to give us a good wallop if the could have caught us in the act.

pebbles21

Nicking a bread board from a bread van..attaching wheels from your granny's broken shopping trolley..a rope as a steering wheel and your heels as brakes..
You were then, the proud owner of a super racing cart!


After coming out of a mates house after watching Enter The Dragon on a Video,make flying kicks at each other saying "aahhhh chhha waaa woooo chaa"

MurdyWurdy

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

When the wooden floors went in, Spraying them with shít loads of polish and sliding the fúck outta that floor

Or

Using the mattress from the bed to sit on while flying down the stairs

Oh and TOPPING Girls

Ah, topping - brings back memories. We still say it for the laugh.

If any of my friends have had a "date night" with their bfs/husbands we still all giggle and ask, did he top you? Under or over the bra? Never gets old

vitani

Making a parachute out of a plastic bag for your Barbie/toy soldier and throwing them off the top of the stairs.

Fanny Biscuit

vitani wrote: »

Making a parachute out of a plastic bag for your Barbie/toy soldier and throwing them off the top of the stairs.

^^

Using a plank of wood and finding a nice wall for a seesaw

admiralofthefleet

razorgil wrote: »

pardon my ignorance, but what was that?

plank of wood with a clothes peg stuck on and some elastic bands to make a kids weapon

mojesius

On my road, we used to have Wimbledon tournaments every summer (Affluence). The net was made from a piece of string/rope tied to two trees on either side of the street.

Every year, when the Spanish students came over for summer, the older local kids organised an unofficial football tournament with them on the green. It went on for years!

We put coins on the train tracks and watched as they'd get melted and pulverised when the train came along.

I remember we had a form of dodgeball, called 'dead or alive'. Very aggressive and painful, now that I think of it.

hollster2

mojesius wrote: »

On my road, we used to have Wimbledon tournaments every summer (Affluence). The net was made from a piece of string/rope tied to two trees on either side of the street.

Every year, when the Spanish students came over for summer, the older local kids organised an unofficial football tournament with them on the green. It went on for years!

We put coins on the train tracks and watched as they'd get melted and pulverised when the train came along.

I remember we had a form of dodgeball, called 'dead or alive'. Very aggressive and painful, now that I think of it.

did the exact same we used to make the grunts everytime we hit the ball too! i used to watch all the lads playin the football cheering them all on thinking we were massive :D

upandcumming

johnners2981 wrote: »

The priest

For fuck's sake.

bobwilliams

Grusshies and British bulldog

tomboylady

We spent endless hours running through fields, climbing trees, scaling walls. Every night when I got home there would be a new scrape or bruise. I always wore shorts in the summer and my knees used to be permanently covered in mud and grass during the summer holidays. We lived by the beach so we'd spend hours running in and out of the water, usually fully clothed.

I remember one Christmas all my friends and I got bikes from Santa. That was a brilliant summer, a new different adventure everyday!

We used to play football or tennis, or some sort of game on the road, and when a car came we'd have to move to let them by. Eventually cars used to just take a different route so as not to disturb us.