Brandy sounds absolutely vicious! Did kids cry?

Bikes aren't toys. (I guess they are, I just haven't used it in such a way since I used to "ghost ride" mine off the toys on the playground!)

Hey, bad game from when you were a kid... "fireball" and "Polish cannons"
Fireball was a tennis ball soaked in gasoline, lit and thrown. The game was intended to be played with people you didn't like, I think. My step brother just loved it.
Polish cannons, a bunch of can with the top and bottom cut out, tape together with duct tape, the bottom can still had one end and small holes (to ignite the process) a tennis ball and some lighter fluid and those t balls would shoot in to the sky! My step dad showed us that one.

My favorite things were my roller skates and ice skates.  Back then we didn't have the in-line skates with those nice polyurethane wheels....our's were the old metal wheels that made your feet feel like they weighed 5 pounds each!  At least mine were a one piece unit...skate and boot together.  I remember some of the neighborhood kids still had the really old metal ones that you put on over the top of your tennis shoes, tightened the width up and adjusted the length with wing-nut screws, then prayed that the skate stayed together in the middle.....sometimes the wing-nut would loosen up and the skates would come apart.  We played a lot of street hockey in the summer and ice hockey in the winter, though none of us girls ever had the proper equipment to play ice hockey.....those pucks hurt like heck!!!!

I also loved the old wooden toboggon we used to have.  We'd spend hours in the winter waxing it so we could shoot down the metal runs one of parks had.  Our's was a six-footer and we'd pack as many people on it as we could.  That was a blast!!  Sledding is ok, but it doesn't compare to metal runs coated with ice......talk about flying!!  I miss doing that.  Our city decided the metal runs were too much of a liability and took them down 15 years ago. 

I wasn't into playing with dolls, but had a nice collection of Barbie dolls.  I never took them out of the boxes.  I still have most of them and have decided to split them up between my girls......they can either keep them or sell them, it's up to them what they do with 'em. 

I also loved my bike.  I remember the day I got it.  My dad spent all day long trying to get the training wheels just right on it.  Once he had it balanced, he turned me loose.....I went around the block once, came home and told him to take them off.....I already knew how to ride a two-wheeler because the neighbor boys had shown me how.  Boy, was he mad at me for not telling him earlier!!  Haha.  He left them on for a week; finally took them off when he realized I wouldn't ride a "baby bike" as I called it.  Anyway, my bike gave me the taste of freedom that all kids dream about.  I lived in a quiet neighborhood and was allowed to ride in a 5 block radius from home.....it seemed like a long way at the time. 

Our favorite game was called "hobo Joe".  There were train tracks near our house, and a story was passed around about a one-armed hobo that would steal kids.  We used to pretend to be "hobo Joe" and try to catch each other.  It was more or less a game of tag and hide & seek mixed together.  Funny thing was there really was a hobo named Joe that used to hitch a ride on the train.....we'd see him every once in a while and it would scare the crap out of us.  And no, he didn't take kids....he was just a bum that got around town by hitching rides on the trains.  Older kids just embellished the story for us younger ones. 

This was a favorite in the teenage years...until I was the one pulling it back and it went forward and came back and hit me in the leg. I had a bruise for four months and the muscle was damaged enought that I can still tell you exactly where it hit. Needless to say....I stopped playing with it.

does little cheese have one? little A got one for her birthday and doesnt like it much.

No, I didn't get her one. Maybe I'll hold off on that. I have her on my lap right now.  SHe wants ELMO!

and since I grew up in a family of 3 boys, and I was the only girl, I loved the game TAG, Hide And Seek, and of course on rainy days, I had to play this:

squonk wrote:

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Bikes aren't toys. (I guess they are, I just haven't used it in such a way since I used to "ghost ride" mine off the toys on the playground!)

Hey, bad game from when you were a kid... "fireball" and "Polish cannons"
Fireball was a tennis ball soaked in gasoline, lit and thrown. The game was intended to be played with people you didn't like, I think. My step brother just loved it.
Polish cannons, a bunch of can with the top and bottom cut out, tape together with duct tape, the bottom can still had one end and small holes (to ignite the process) a tennis ball and some lighter fluid and those t balls would shoot in to the sky! My step dad showed us that one.

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What?!? I must share this with my parents to remind them what a good, sweet, obedient child I was. {{lol}} Squonk, do you have any eyebrows left after growing up with these games? How much of the old neighborhood was mysetriously burned down? {{lol}}

squonk wrote:

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Actually, from time to time it would spash gas on you but, the flames never really scorched you. I'm not sure if too many of us had much knuckle hair etc.
It was probably the most dangerous game we played. We did so many stupid things. We got busted by my parents for trying to blow up an airplane model. We had designed it to do multiple "explosions". Little pouches of gas taped to the ceiling of the model plane's interior with a couple of bottle rockets dismounted and aiming at the pouches. We didn't take in to consideration that it's the fumes that burn. We slid the plane out a window on to the roof of the house's overhang... the rockets were lit but, were snuffed by the liquid. Some burning occured. We left it in the gutter. When the parents came home my mom saw the remains in the gutter. We were lectured on "what if those were real people, etc" We didn't get it.
Don't worry, I had a couple of "paybacks" with my son. I found myself saying similar statements. Man, I'm getting old.

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Hahaha! That's wild! Please do not tell JD how to do these things though, he has enough problems with spontaneous fire in his life. Let's not encourage the guy.

JD, you frighten me sometimes. {{lol}}

oh man I just loved toys! I too had a Big Wheel. I was not so much a bike person though. It took me awhile to find my balance. I guess I loved pretend. Me & the neighbors were always pretending to be something. A lot of the time it was Batman & Robin. But I also remember pretending to be Wonder Woman in my underoos when I was home alone! LOL!

I've always been fascinated by magic and superheroes so the list could be big.

He-Man-(bunch of action figures from both)
She-Ra
Jem & The Holograms(had a huge doll collection)
Thundercats
Transformers
Batman

I had a major obsession with watching all The Monkees reruns on tv. It would play like 3 times a day on different channels!

I remember playing Freeze Tag. We were always changing the rules. Like you had to name a tv show before you were tagged to be safe.

I had Barbie dolls but grew out of them as soon as Jem came around. I loved them things! I loved changing their hair and wardrobe. For a short time I wanted to be a fashion designer. I would draw sketches. I'm sure something else will come to mind later.


Oh and JR- My dad liked to play 52 card pickup with me too! lol

squonk knows this story- but up in my aunt and uncles attic, my cousins and I would have bb-gun fights.  a big thing I remember was my uncle having this huge parka that one of us would wrap up in and the the rest would just have at it with the guns. most of the time you didn't feel the bbs for the most part. I guarantee you that coat is still hiding somewhere up in that attic, and it is filled with easily 60 pounds of bbs...

Woo Hoo wrote:

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Me & the neighbors were always pretending to be something. A lot of the time it was Batman & Robin. But I also remember pretending to be Wonder Woman in my underoos when I was home alone! LOL!


I remember playing Freeze Tag. We were always changing the rules. Like you had to name a tv show before you were tagged to be safe.

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I used to play Batman & Robin too! Only, because I was the only girl, I was always voted to play a villainess - usually Catwoman! Meow! LOL

We played freeze tag alot too, only we combined it with Bloody Murder. The parents would get so tired of hearing their children shrieking constantly! Oh, that was fun - I'd play it again if I could find playmates to do it!

I'll come play!

Personally, I think all disputes should be settled with a game of Red Rover. Which is kind of funny, because I was a small kid.