When I was a kid, we used to...

[Ramhusker]

I think most of the stuff we did are felonies today. We had the bottle rocket wars, BB gun battles, destroyed a few mailboxes with M80s and cherry bombs. Threw smoke bombs into the police station and egged them when they came running out. Hitting cars with snowballs was a favorite pastime. We used to watch the police wash their cars at the fire station and then egg them when they got done. It seems anything to have to run from the police motivated us. Hopping on our Honda Trail 70s and blasting through town until under pursuit was my favorite. I now apologize.

 

[Ramhusker]

physically change the tv channels , all three of them


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZccAS0GrkE

At least until you had to use vice grips to do it.

 

[Memento]

I think most of the stuff we did are felonies today. We had the bottle rocket wars, BB gun battles, destroyed a few mailboxes with M80s and cherry bombs. Threw smoke bombs into the police station and egged them when they came running out. Hitting cars with snowballs was a favorite pastime. We used to watch the police wash their cars at the fire station and then egg them when they got done. It seems anything to have to run from the police motivated us. Hopping on our Honda Trail 70s and blasting through town until under pursuit was my favorite. I now apologize.

Where's the "Fuck the police!" song when you need it?

 

[Loyal]

Where's the "Fuck the police!" song when you need it?

I remember in the old days when I could buy a Nelly, "Hot in Herre," CD from Walmart. That's about as old school as you can get! ~ Memento

 

[Dz1]

physically change the tv channels , all three of them


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZccAS0GrkE

Lol I can really relate to that, again and again etc etc. While living in Miami, the Larchmont Projects we had a recliner ..and I use to practice pitching thru the gap in the chair when it was leaned back.

Lord there was Olsteen ,Sutton , Singer Drysdale etc etc, my fav Brewer and that Screwball , I could throw that screw .

 

[Raptorman]

I think most of the stuff we did are felonies today. We had the bottle rocket wars, BB gun battles, destroyed a few mailboxes with M80s and cherry bombs. Threw smoke bombs into the police station and egged them when they came running out. Hitting cars with snowballs was a favorite pastime. We used to watch the police wash their cars at the fire station and then egg them when they got done. It seems anything to have to run from the police motivated us. Hopping on our Honda Trail 70s and blasting through town until under pursuit was my favorite. I now apologize.

Yeah, nowadays you get caught making a pipe bomb and it's a federal felony. Geez, things have turned.

 

[IowaRam]

played electric football


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkVZt3OwYyE

 

[IowaRam]

watch Captain Kangaroo


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIamg_jkB-k

 

[IowaRam]

read the Sears Christmas Catalog from cover to cover , from October to March

JC Penny's as well

 

[IowaRam]

we used to live in a world covered in Green Shag carpeting

 

[1maGoh]

watch Captain Kangaroo


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIamg_jkB-k

Was Mark Davis' first job selling Schwinn bikes?

 

[Loyal]

read the Sears Christmas Catalog from cover to cover , from October to March

JC Penny's as well

And I used to check out the ladies underwear when no one was looking! ~ IowaRam

 

[Classic Rams]

When I was in the 3rd grade a small group of us boys use to touch the girls the wrong way.

Well after a very strong lecture from Mom and seeing how upset she got by it , never did it again.

Dude that reminds me of what was going on in elementary school back in the day. Boys at school used to grab each other's nuts for fun. The first time it happened to me was after school when I was walking on the dirt to the parking lot to wait for my ride. Some kid runs up to me and grabs me in the nads, pants on of course, laughs and runs off. A drive by nut grab. I chased him and grab him back in his. Eww, felt gross, first and last time for me. Didn't happen every day, but that was weird. I figured it was to embarrass someone by doing it, it wasn't a gay thing AFAIK. And just a few of the tougher rascally kids did it to other kids. But then in 6th grade in another public school one day this tough girl in our class did it to a boy classmate. After that he started wearing a cup to school. Just weird shit like that... no one really got traumatized but after that one time I wasn't gonna be a participant. I was like okay what started that and who was the first kid to get that idea? 2 different schools, same city. I don't think anyone told teachers about it. Most kids laughed at it but didn't want it happening to them. It seemed to have stopped in the 7th grade middle school, kids were starting to grow up. Anyway thought of this when I read your story.

 

[RamBall]

We would intentionally miss the school bus then scrounge up all the change and returnable bottles we could find. Jump on our bicycles and go to the gun shop and buy as many packs of pellets as the guy would sell us for the $ we had. He always threw in at least 1 free pack. Then we would spend our day on the levee killing everything that moved, especially blue jays.

 

[Loyal]

Maybe I was born a moneygrubber...

But when Mom drug us kids with her everywhere shopping, I would constantly scan the floors of the aisles for change. Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. I would find them on almost every trip, it seemed. I had to distract my mind because if I didn't I'd go insane with the shopping.
"Momma just wants to see something," normally meant Mom was steering towards the clothes section against all of my efforts. I would invariably either ask or just go without permission to the toy aisle(s). When I was really young, K-Mart employees would announce, "Mrs Denson, please come to customer service for your child."

 

[RamFan503]

We used to grind down slugs on the sidewalk to the size of dimes so we could use them in the coke machines.

 

[RamFan503]

we used to live in a world covered in Green Shag carpeting

Ours was orange but same basic idea. Tough shit though. My parents waited until we all moved out before they got rid of it.

 

[RhodyRams]

oh man..for me it was baseball all day and kick the can at night.

apt. complex I lived in had 10-14 kids all my age and we would go outside right after breakfast and head to the field. Home run derby, hit the bat, or pickle until enough kids showed up for a game.

Kick the can at night until curfew at 10. Mom went to work 11-7 so when my sisters boyfriend showed up I was out riding bikes. We used to have races from one point at the top of a hill, down thru 2 parking lots and then leave big long fishtails on the sidewalks. Building ramps and jumping garbage cans, not the rubbermaid shit now, the good galvanized aluminum ones the made a racket if you didnt clear them. One kid, Todd Cugno, wiped out trying to beat the 16 can record and ended up with a busted up face and a tire spoke thru his calf. I broke my wrist once when chain snapped and couldnt stop. Back then we had coaster brakes, and had to pedal backwards to stope. Slammed into a car and flew over the hood. Landed in the grass but right on my left wrist. Good times

 

[OC--LeftCoast]

watch Captain Kangaroo


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIamg_jkB-k

Never thought I d see an Orange Krate again, the Cadillac of Stingrays

 

[Loyal]

When the substitute teacher's back was turned, I became Tom Demsey by flicking the folded paper football through the "uprights" of a friends goalpost across the class room (thumb and forefinger goal posts!)

What you talkin' bout, Willis? ~ @Memento