Things you did as a kid

IM0 wrote: »

we played another game with a wall in our estate. we had a ball and each person would take turns kicking it against the wall, but you could only hit it once [anywhere except your hands] unless you were soloing with the first hit from a volley off the wall. and if you let the ball stop after it rolled you were out. Im pretty sure we invented this game :cool:

That's Slam, you'd try send the ball down the road so the other player had no chance of hitting the wall

Did my homework

Went to bed early

Held a begrudging attitude towards teachers

:cool:

When I was a babby, I used to dance intensely to this ad:



No smile on my face or anything, just a deadpan stare into the screen, dancing away...!

Also, been reminiscing lately about how a child's busfare used to be 25p... how I miss those times!

Used to make 'ramps' for driving our BMX bikes off, which was basically a pile of bricks and a length of timber laid on top of them...... I haven't seen a ramp in years, are kids nowadays too afraid of breaking bones to build one?

Also, kids these days don't seem to go conker-ing. We would be looking forward to the conkers being ready for weeks beforehand, but kids nowadays couldn't give a fcuk if they never saw a conker I'd say!

xzanti wrote: »

Used to love catching bees and wasps in jars.. We thought we were great cause we'd put a few flowers in the end of the jar for them.. Poor bastards

We're lucky we didn't get the arses stung off us..

Also used to play 'restaurant' with old tyres as stools up against a garden wall.. Menu usually consisted of muck, flowers and pebbles..

Collecting cans for 25p a sack

Making 'swings' on lamp posts with a piece of rope

Also spent much of my days doing shop runs for mine and my Friends' Parents.. I remember being served cigarettes at the age of 5.. Oh the humanity!!!!

Who bought the cans rummy?

Making slides in the winter by pouring water out on the path and using old jumpers to make the slide longer.

Knick-Knack, kick the can, queeny-eye-oh, sick-dying-dead-buried.
Rounders, kiss chasing, hot square, bulldogs.
15 a side football and only one goal.

Being sent to the shops - go on I'll time you. And falling for it.
Eating sugar sambo's and drinking water from a glass milk bottle.

Catching bees, tadpoles, and frogs. Chalk drawings on the ground.
Climbing trees - lamp poles, bus shelters - what ever could be climbed.
Riding bikes with no tyres. Making trolleys - using bearings as wheels.
Rocks were hammers, nails were used to hold wheels on.

I just remembered Pogs one day you could have had a massive tube,the next day you could have nothing,
Other games included,hide and seek.tip the can,Lego,sega mega drive.curbs was another one,bulldog,

I don't no if anyone played this game but it was called"IRA"(I don't know why it was called that)basically there would be a large group split into two and scatterd around the estate,generally it was the older kids after the younger ones and basically if you where caught you would have had the ****e kicked outta ya.

Collecting toys/tokens from the cereal boxes and battering your sisters for them.

Jumping on the hay bales and being covered in tics for days after

Re-in acting scenes from any programme which started with "don't try this at home". It was less of a warning to us and more of a challenge.

'Kiss, Cuddle or Torture' kind of like Kiss Chasing but the boy had three choices when he got caught. He always had to pick torture to save face, pick 'kiss' and you might look ghey :P