what fun did you had as a kid

[limegreenc]

the playing card clipped with a clothespin on the spokes of your bike, have a game of javelin (it's illegal now) on the lawn, if you're a girl, join your elbows faced up together-boys can't do this, and make bets on it, pick up bottles off the side of the road and cash them in for a nickel, ride your bike hands free, tie-dye your t-shirts, hang upside down on the monkey bars

[Lamplighter]

After dinner rounds of kick-the-can... as it got darker and darker the game got better.

[Sundae]

None of the above.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

After dinner rounds of kick-the-can... as it got darker and darker the game got better.

Kick-The-Can!!!!! Fuckin'A! A very large percentage of my outdoor childhood was spent playing kick-the-can.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You could afford a can!!!

[Gravdigr]

Building a ramp and jumping our bikes into the creek.

Oh, I had the black box that mounted on your handlebar, you twisted the grip and 'sounds like a real motor' came from the little box.

Baseball/playing cards in the spokes, pfft.

[DanaC]

Playing in the old air raid shelter in the grounds of the derelict factory up the road. Then attempting to lie about it and claim not to have been there despite being caked in inch thick filth.

Star Wars: except I always had to be the fucking Princess which mainly involved waiting around to be rescued by Luke (David).

Jumping off a high wall onto old mattresses: also climbing about in skips.

Building dens at the back of Queen's Park.

Breaking into 'The Witch's Garden' - poor bloody woman.

Shoplifting penny sweets

And the traditional knock-a-door-run game - Again: poor bloody woman.

[glatt]

Throwing shit at cars when they went by.

Oh. Wait. That's a bad memory. They don't like that.

[glatt]

Kick the can was excellent fun though. Many a summer evening...

[ZenGum]

In my high school, we played kick the can as a form of hackey sack. (Hackeys hadn't been invented yet, apparently). Kicking and kneeing is fine, but I recommend against heading a crumpled up coke can, at least for anyone who isn't a stupid teenager.
Also, teachers seem to disapprove of students climbing on the roof of the school.

[Lamplighter]

Also, teachers seem to disapprove of students climbing on the roof of the school.

Ah, there's one...
At the opening of school each year we sold 10-cent tickets to the incoming Freshmen
for the swimming pool that was on the roof of the Auditorium.

[Happy Monkey]

Sliding down the stairs on a foam rubber mattress.

[Pete Zicato]

Climbing trees.

[chrisinhouston]

I had no fun, I had no childhood.

[BigV]

A game of javelins, ah... I remember it as Jarts. I played it as a kid and had fun (no one died), but we didn't have a set. We did have regular darts though. It turns out you can throw those suckers clear over the house! The game ended when I caught one in my left forearm--ouch.

Playing card in the spokes, check. Catching a preying mantis *and* a bumblebee and putting them in the same jar for a battle royale, check. Lots of time at the community swimming pool. Rope swings from the tree in the back yard. Sliding down the stairs (or jumping to the landing) on mattresses. Jumping on the couch, jumping on the bed. Red Rover Red Rover, Hide and Go Seek, Freeze Tag. Camping out in the back yard. Bike riding with and without hands, on one wheel and two (and momentarily none just past the ramp, check). Playing in the creek, seining for crawdads.