Games We Loved as Children

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[Kitte]

I loved Red light Green light and Mother May I we used to get the whole neighborhood playing into the wee hours of the night. Those were the days!

 

[lavender]

 

[MsMuffet]

I loved Red light Green light and Mother May I we used to get the whole neighborhood playing into the wee hours of the night. Those were the days!

Go figure! Me too... then I got older... started playing the rougher games... like football... until i got my front teeth knocked out by a stupid boy!

 

[Kitte]

Go figure! Me too... then I got older... started playing the rougher games... like football... until i got my front teeth knocked out by a stupid boy!

[Hijack]
Ok this gets creepier and creepier... Hey do you have a birthmark on your hand...because we now have officially way to much in common for it to be a mere coincidence...I was looking at old threads back..well you know when and there were a few in there too..like we take our coffee the same way! lol[/Hijack]

 

[MsMuffet]

[Hijack]
Ok this gets creepier and creepier... Hey do you have a birthmark on your hand...because we now have officially way to much in common for it to be a mere coincidence...I was looking at old threads back..well you know when and there were a few in there too..like we take our coffee the same way! lol[/Hijack]

*checking hand*

 

[Guest]

 

[Shaq]

Kickball is a playground classic...

 

[someplace]

Ding Dong Ditch-it

 

[lilminx]

Steal the Bacon.

 

[KillerMuffin]

King of the Hill.

 

[Olivianna]

I liked kickball too, but I was definitely more a tetherball junkie.

Perhaps less well known - I used to love to explore house construction sites in my neighborhood (I grew up in a town that was founded only in the 1970s, so there were always a lot of houses being built all over the place) - anyone else ever do this? Sometimes other kids would come along, but more often I'd go alone. There were always neat things around - rusty nails, tubes of gunk, plans, cigarette wrappers - and you could see the skeleton of the structure. I remember one time I was wandering through this one house that had already been drywalled and maybe the floors had been tiled too, and the family that was going to move into it showed up. I was like, hey, this is MY place. I mean, not that I said that. I just sort of scooted off. But I really had gotten to know the building from foundation to near-finish. Maybe that's why I study the history of architecture now.

 

[erosman]

capture the flag

kick the can

 

[Captain Howdy]

Hide n seek.

 

[amelia]

fruit basket upset
WAR...this one took the whole neighborhood

 

[kotori]

Perhaps less well known - I used to love to explore house construction sites in my neighborhood (I grew up in a town that was founded only in the 1970s, so there were always a lot of houses being built all over the place) - anyone else ever do this? Sometimes other kids would come along, but more often I'd go alone. There were always neat things around - rusty nails, tubes of gunk, plans, cigarette wrappers - and you could see the skeleton of the structure.

Hey, I still do that. And get paid for it as well.

I remember one time I was wandering through this one house that had already been drywalled and maybe the floors had been tiled too, and the family that was going to move into it showed up. I was like, hey, this is MY place. I mean, not that I said that. I just sort of scooted off. But I really had gotten to know the building from foundation to near-finish. Maybe that's why I study the history of architecture now.

The funniest thing about doing residential architecture is the way some clients "take possession" of the project before it's actually complete.
"Look at all this mud on my floor!"
"Don't worry, Mrs. Schmenckmann, they'll clean it before they put the carpet down."
"What are all these stripes on the wall!"
"Don't worry, Mrs. Schmenckmann, that's why we put paint on--you won't see them when we're done."
&c.

 

[Olivianna]

Hey, I still do that. And get paid for it as well.

Heh. That is sooo cool. I'm jealous.

The funniest thing about doing residential architecture is the way some clients "take possession" of the project before it's actually complete.
"Look at all this mud on my floor!"
"Don't worry, Mrs. Schmenckmann, they'll clean it before they put the carpet down."
"What are all these stripes on the wall!"
"Don't worry, Mrs. Schmenckmann, that's why we put paint on--you won't see them when we're done."
&c.

Ha ha. That's funny. I actually tried saying Schmenckmann out loud. It's difficult.

Oh, I thought of another game I loved - I used to love those invisible ink/pen game-books that would specify that the games were designed for people aged 3 - 99.

 

[stratocaster]

Dodge Ball. It was a violent game, but I had good hands and rarely got thwacked on the side of my face. Man, that hurt like hell.

 

[kotori]

Heh. That is sooo cool. I'm jealous.

I was out of school for nine years (BA-History), before I went into an Architecture Masters program for people with non-architecture undergrad degrees. Something to think about.

Ha ha. That's funny. I actually tried saying Schmenckmann out loud. It's difficult.

Actually, I stole that name from Richard Lewis--he did a t.v. show with Jamie Lee Curtis about fifteen years ago (?), and "Mrs. Schmenckmann" was their universal yenta-figure. I like saying it.

 

[SpiceCake]

We played "ditch 'em. " It's like tag only you have two people to each team and you have to hold hands the entire time. Fun neighborhood game.

We also played "Murder in the Dark" Like Red Rover only much rougher and it was played at night! You could tackle!

We played "Fox and Hound" in the snow - a sort of tag where you made paths in the snow and had dens spread throughout the maze. If you stepped out of the path - you were out!

Of course we also had major snowball fights, making forts and such.

What fond memories. Great thread!

 

[Olivianna]

I was out of school for nine years (BA-History), before I went into an Architecture Masters program for people with non-architecture undergrad degrees. Something to think about.

Yeah. How 'bout you build the buildings and I'll write about them?

 

[A Desert Rose]

I started a thread just like this in the BDSM forum the other day.

We played hide and seek and red light/green light.

 

[sch00lteacher]

Help me out with the name of this game.

Pole

Ball on long rope

Two kids opposite sides of pole, hit the ball until it is wrapped all the way around you win

Damn, I never won that game once, maybe that is why I can't remember the name of it.

I remember watching a friends forearm explode while playing Red Rover... Loved that game! Bones sticking out, blood. Very cool.

Tackle football was my #1 game. No pads, no helmet. Any season, any weather.

Pick up baseball game. Any afternoon, hang out until enough kids showed. Try doing that today.

Dirt clod wars.

Army.

I wanna be a kid again!

 

[Olivianna]

Help me out with the name of this game.

Pole

Ball on long rope

Two kids opposite sides of pole, hit the ball until it is wrapped all the way around you win

Damn, I never won that game once, maybe that is why I can't remember the name of it.

TETHERBALL!!!

 

[april-wine]

Ker-Plunk........