I Wanna Play

[Misty_Morning]

not THAT way...well yes I do.

But I was talking about just playing. Not video games or computer games.

Things like tag.

Do you remember the old chants...1-2-3 ole man said get out of my apple tree?


Or how 'bout king of the hill?

Or chicken football?

Or just plain old dodgeball?

Damn....the memories of red rover and the bruises just bring back smiles.

I came from a very large family. We WERE a baseball team. And I mean hardball...and, yes I used to pitch. (5 brothers and two sisters)

ALL the kids used to come to our house every day to play.

In the winter, we had the best sled run. And in the summer, we didn't let the lack of snow deter us. We'd just take old used tires and climb inside and have someone roll us across the yard and down the hill.




C'mon folks...tell me about the games you played as a kid and the all the twists that you put into them....



LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!!!

 

[cloudy]

I am the Marco Polo QUEEN.

There's not a child in the neighborhood that can beat me (and, believe me, they've all been over here all summer long, trying).

 

[Belegon]

right now, I miss putting on roller skates and playing hockey on the street, with a goalie dressed in baseball catchers gear and Mr. Weber's Winnebago taking a beating as neighborhood kids lined each other up for a check on the "boards"...

 

[Lee Chambers]

I miss playing war games in the woods where I grew up.








I had a fairly violent childhood. Might explain my outlook today.

 

[Belegon]

I miss playing war games in the woods where I grew up.

I had a fairly violent childhood. Might explain my outlook today.

We had BB gun wars in the hills. Luckily, no one ever shot their eye out...

 

[glynndah]

We spent a lot of time playing gladiator and slave girls. We played pirates until I fell out of a tree and broke my wrist.

 

[cloudy]

I suppose because I have a 7-year-old, and have spent the better part of the last 26 years raising kids, I've never stopped playing.

Tag, hide-n-seek, basketball, flag football, army, power rangers (I'm the yellow one, thank you very much), ninja turtles, you name it, are all part of my repertoire. I'm also still pretty good at flips on the trampoline.

 

[FatDino]

My grandparents on my mother's side have 14 kids, 10 of them are still alive, and so I have a LOT of cousins. But there were only a handful of us that were about the same age. And we used to play war games together. The oldest one of us would be the neutral party. He'd divide the rest of us, 5 of us, into 2 teams. It was usually one team of 3 girls and one with 2 boys and then we'll pillow fight each other. The winners would get to ride the losers...like horses. We even had strategies, plans, secret weapons. One person would take the role of a spy as well. And when our 'horses' grew tired, we'd make them buy us candies. It was never fair for me cuz I don't eat candies and I always ended up having the smallest share.

But it was fun.

 

[Misty_Morning]

Ain't no one gonna ask about chicken football?


I thought we had dreamed this up all on our own......

 

[TE999]

Ain't no one gonna ask about chicken football?


I thought we had dreamed this up all on our own......

Is that anything like frog baseball?

It's best played near a pond where there are plenty of replacement balls.

And it's kinda messy. But fun!

(And to all you animal lovers out there--JUST KIDDING)

 

[FatDino]

Ain't no one gonna ask about chicken football?


I thought we had dreamed this up all on our own......

did i hear meatball?

 

[Misty_Morning]

When I was a kid, we (me and my siblings) used to havta scrub out hte garbage cans once a week. Ya know the old aluminum cans.....

Well, they were spotless. And then we'd take them and crawl insinde while someone would roll us across the lawn and down the hill, usually off a ramp or two that we built.

Finally we'd crash into some trees or boulders.

There were many a children that went home with concussions.

Oh, but the feeling of rolling and tumbling.


Later we discovered that an old used tire had the same effect and also cushioned the landing.

 

[3113]

I am the Marco Polo QUEEN.

There's not a child in the neighborhood that can beat me (and, believe me, they've all been over here all summer long, trying).

Yeah, but you cheat...don't ya?

 

[3113]

Things like tag.

Tag! You're it! [running]

 

[cloudy]

Yeah, but you cheat...don't ya?

no...you don't have to when the oldest is only 10.

 

[Misty_Morning]

did i hear meatball?

Chicken football....

you've heard of chicken fights where one person would get on the shoulders of another and then try to knock off another team?

Well, we had chicken football.

an entire team with one person on another persons shoulders.....AND playing football at the same time...........


A mother's nightmare to say the least.

 

[Misty_Morning]

Tag! You're it! [running]

Are we playing just plain ole tag or freeze tag?

 

[cloudy]

One of our favorites was "smear the queer" (not very PC, I know). We played it in the road, and tore up many pair of jeans that way.

There was a creek down behind the house with this one really wide, deep spot. We put this old plank we found somewhere over it, and two people would get out on the plank and start jumping. The object was to time your jumps so that the plank would bounce the other kid off into the creek when they landed.

We were mean.

 

[Misty_Morning]

One of our favorites was "smear the queer" (not very PC, I know). We played it in the road, and tore up many pair of jeans that way.

There was a creek down behind the house with this one really wide, deep spot. We put this old plank we found somewhere over it, and two people would get out on the plank and start jumping. The object was to time your jumps so that the plank would bounce the other kid off into the creek when they landed.

We were mean.

We used to play that too....I always wondered why i lost...guess now I know.

 

[FatDino]

Chicken football....

you've heard of chicken fights where one person would get on the shoulders of another and then try to knock off another team?

Well, we had chicken football.

an entire team with one person on another persons shoulders.....AND playing football at the same time...........


A mother's nightmare to say the least.

My cousins and I had water chicken fights...chicken fights that took place in water.

 

[Misty_Morning]

My cousins and I had water chicken fights...chicken fights that took place in water.

Whimps.....

 

[starrkers]

My favourite was hide and seek in the school yard with the old back tap as home base.

You remember how a time-out was signalled by yelling "Fins fingers B A R" or something similar?
I was listening to my two boys and their mates playing the other day. The don't say that anymore. They say "Pause Game".

 

[cloudy]

ooh! Just thought of another:

We all had those little bitty yamaha dirtbikes...I swear, we were the mini hell's angels. Well, out in California, the tarantulas come out about dusk, and we played "squish the tarantulas" with the dirtbikes.

 

[impressive]

Kick the Can

 

[FatDino]

Cards. Losers had to drink one glass of water. Needless to say there were a lot of "I need to pee."