Things we did when we were young playing

hollster2 · 28-01-2013 01:18PM #1

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 · 28-01-2013 01:19PM

Spending hours down the fields

Reoil · 28-01-2013 01:19PM

Very nice.

Melion · 28-01-2013 01:20PM

Mmmmmm Jet

donvito99 · 28-01-2013 01:20PM

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 · 28-01-2013 01:21PM

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 · 28-01-2013 01:21PM

Keep secrets.

I don't wanna talk about it.

LizT · 28-01-2013 01:21PM

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

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 28-01-2013 01:22PM

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 · 28-01-2013 01:29PM

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. · 28-01-2013 01:35PM

Make Gallybanders.

xzanti · 28-01-2013 01:35PM

I would never use gates

always had to climb over the wall... such a little tomboy!!

seven_eleven · 28-01-2013 01:50PM

Put cinder blocks on train tracks.

Bad Santa · 28-01-2013 01:55PM

Well, I was a doctor and eh..

Princess Zelda · 28-01-2013 01:59PM

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 · 28-01-2013 02:00PM

The priest

MurdyWurdy · 28-01-2013 02:01PM

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

MurdyWurdy · 28-01-2013 02:02PM

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 · 28-01-2013 02:06PM

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 · 28-01-2013 02:12PM

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

/cough

Logical_Bear · 28-01-2013 02:12PM

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 · 28-01-2013 02:15PM

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

JupiterKid · 28-01-2013 02:20PM

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 · 28-01-2013 02:21PM

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

razorgil · 28-01-2013 02:27PM

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

Wattle · 28-01-2013 02:36PM

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

reap-a-rat · 28-01-2013 02:38PM

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 · 28-01-2013 02:41PM

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 · 28-01-2013 02:47PM

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 · 28-01-2013 06:51PM

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 · 28-01-2013 06:53PM

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!)

Things we did when we were young playing

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