Knoch-knock. Can Ledgie come out and play?

[Violet]

Some of our favorites that involved all the kids on our block were:

Flashlight Tag -- We'd have up to like 6 yards that would be the territory where you could hide, and have probably 15 kids playing

Tarzan and Jane -- my best friend and I always ended up being the monkey, whose name escapes me...was it Cheetah?

Kickball -- My dad would get in on this and kick the ball not only out of the yard but over the neighbor's house behind us.

Orphanage -- One lucky kid got to be Mr. Meanie, who ran the orphanage.

I had a Skip-It (at least that's what they're called now..not sure what they were called in the '70s). It had a thing that went around your ankle and a lemon on the end of it, you spun it around and jumped over it. Hard to explain, but I loved that thing. I'll still play with my daughter's current version which uses a wheel instead of a lemon.

We also had some kind of ride-on toy that you operated by spinning the big wheels with your hands, and you would go in circles. Again, not a great description....

Carol

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I used to swear up and down that I was adopted. My mom has loong blonde hair. My friends used to call her Stevie My dad has dark curly hair. No..no one calls him Lindsey...he's a big guy

My family was so nuts that I used to torment my little brother by telling him he WASN'T adopted. "Those are your real parents."

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

was the time when alot of the stuff I mentioned happened...Those were great times (Before my Mother remarried to a total a--hole which we boys hated, Thank God she divorced his drunken wife beating ass before he ended up suckin' on the end of the .22 rifle I owned!!!)

(Gulp)

Glad your mom got rid of him.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Hee. My mom had a perm after she & dad got married and moved into their first house. She always tells me she remembers seeing the Stand Back video then (black widow, I can bend - right, Riss? ) and everyone wanted to be Stevie.

After that, she had short brown hair. Then bam - blonde.

I can't imagine my mom trying to look like Stevie. Stevie would have to wear diamonds and play mah- jong.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

When I was really little I played with Fisher Price Little People....I called them "goors" basically I was trying to say girls...but couldn't...so yeah....I had a farm and a school house and a regular house with which to play...oh and a circus train (these FP toys were my sister's - who is ten years older than I, they no longer make those toys like they used to )

I also had a bunch of little records that came with books...I had all of my favorites memorized..and I'd recite them for my (probably very bored) parents and grandparents...

When I was a bit older we moved to a neighborhood with kids, we played:

Barbies (for hours at a time...)
School (we were SO lame)
trouble, sorry or monopoly
we'd roller skate (in the days before roller blades)
we'd ride bikes
make prank calls....(call ID has ruined what was my favorite slumber party antic!)

So basically your first paragraph tells me that you tried to turn your house into Little House On The Prairie. Why am I not surprised.
I can't remember if I listed bike riding, but we did that a lot. I never road after my early teen years (still haven't learned hand brakes), but I had a cool dirt bike called the Hornet 1 that was made to look like a yellow and black fake cheesey motorcycly, complete with a fake tank. My parents are finally hiring a crew to clean out the garage (nobody has been in there for YEARS), and I told my mom to throw out everything except that bike!

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by Violet

Tarzan and Jane -- my best friend and I always ended up being the monkey, whose name escapes me...was it Cheetah?


Orphanage -- One lucky kid got to be Mr. Meanie, who ran the orphanage.


Carol

These two are too funny!

- Jake

[Violet]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

These two are too funny!

- Jake

Yeah...Eileen and I were the youngest of the kids, so that's why we were always Cheetah. All we got to do was sit in the tree making monkey noises!

The orphanage thing is kind of weird. Not sure where we got that. But as it turns out my daughter spent her first 9 months in an orphanage, and I don't think I'll ever share this game with her. I want her to have a positive image of orphanages!

We rode bikes a LOT, too. Did you have one with a banana seat and those big, high handlebars?

Carol

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by Violet

Yeah...Eileen and I were the youngest of the kids, so that's why we were always Cheetah. All we got to do was sit in the tree making monkey noises!

The orphanage thing is kind of weird. Not sure where we got that. But as it turns out my daughter spent her first 9 months in an orphanage, and I don't think I'll ever share this game with her. I want her to have a positive image of orphanages!

We rode bikes a LOT, too. Did you have one with a banana seat and those big, high handlebars?

Carol

No offense, but weren't those girls' bikes?
(And no, my bike did notr have ribbons, a bell, or a basket. )

- Jake

[Violet]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

No offense, but weren't those girls' bikes?
(And no, my bike did notr have ribbons, a bell, or a basket. )

- Jake

I think boys' bikes had those seats. My brother I'm pretty sure had one. And if memory serves, did the bikes on the Brady Bunch have those seats?? If you ask me those seats were a LOT more comfortable than the teeny seats on bikes now.

I didn't have a bell or ribbons, but I did have a big orange flag on a pole on the back. What the hell was that all about??!?!? Maybe so you could find your bikes easier in those crowded bike racks? Who knows. Makes me think of all the old people in FL who put flowers and crap on their car antennas so they can find them in parking lots!

Carol

[wondergirl9847]

I was a tomboy (still am) as a kid. Me and my cousin would play with baby frogs and catch crawdads at my grandmother's house. LOL

We played four square....remember that game? If not, you had four people, drew a tic-tac-toe on the ground and closed it up so you have four squares...dur. LOL Then, you got a kickball (another game we played, in school, anways) and hit it into the other person's square. If the ball went out of the square, you're out. Stupid game. LOL

In PE class, we played:

Red Rover (!!!)
Kickball
Softball (My fave game!! I hit a homer in 5th grade!! Shocked the boys who were screaming "Move in....easy out!!" LOL)
Soccer (HATE soccer!!)
Basketball
Tennis (HATE tennis!!)

For fun, some would play:
Butt's Up (LMAO!! Who in their right mind....)
Football
Volleyball

At home, I'd play:

Detective on my bike (Yeah, I was VERY imaginative as a kid. LOL Also, we just sold my favorite bike in our garage sale recently and a little part of me, died, I think. LOL)
Atari and later...Nintendo
Volleyball
Badmitton
School (with friends....why would I wanna be a teacher, I don't really like kids. LOL)
rollerskate (My fave thing to do as a kid!!)
I played so much music as a kid...records, tapes, the radio...whatever. I made tapes of myself singing and talking. I'm an only child, so...LOL

[Violet]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Butt's Up (LMAO!! Who in their right mind....)

WTH is that?!!?

We also played four square, and two square....my 4th grade teacher LOVED to play two square with a tennis ball. Every recess that's what he'd do, find some poor kid to annihilate (sp?) at two square. But he was the coolest teacher I ever had....Mr. Paul....quite a cutie, too!

Carol

[wondergirl9847]

I think I remember the rules, but I'm kinda fuzzy....it was a stupid game that the boys would play where they'd get this tennis ball, they'd all line up and race to the wall, whoever was last, had to stand at the wall, while they took turns throwing the tennis ball at his butt. I think that's the gist.

Like I said, STUPID game.

Brian, your mom and my mom sound like they were separated at birth. LOL My mom loves fast cars and hanging out with guys. She has a 1972 Ford Mustang and wants to be buried in it. LMAO!! I keep telling her no, I'm gonna sell it when she's gone....yep, we've fought about it. She raced some guy back in the day and got caught by a cop, (the other guy saw the cop and bailed) and my dad "took" the car away from her. It was his car at first, but my mom kinda took it over.

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Brian, your mom and my mom sound like they were separated at birth. LOL My mom loves fast cars and hanging out with guys. She has a 1972 Ford Mustang and wants to be buried in it. LMAO!! I keep telling her no, I'm gonna sell it when she's gone....yep, we've fought about it. She raced some guy back in the day and got caught by a cop, (the other guy saw the cop and bailed) and my dad "took" the car away from her. It was his car at first, but my mom kinda took it over.

had a fail-proof way of getting outta traffic tickets, A lil' cleavage was all it took

Speaking of being buried, My Mom now wants to be buried face down, So at the funeral ceremony those in the world of the living will have pass her by to kiss her ass.

The most important thing I ever learned from my Mother is the following:
"If you can't dazzle 'em with intelligence, Dazzle 'em with Bullsh-t".

[amber]

I was an only child and there were mainly boys to play with in my neighborhood (thank god!!!). I didn't really like toys, I hated to be inside, and outside, my favorite toys were basically ball and jumprope. Mostly what me and my boy playmate did was run. we played baseball a lot, a lot of times with "stick and plum" yes, the fruit. We played hide and seek, cartoon tag, tunnel tag, regular tag, freeze tag, and probably some others that i'm forgetting. We played race, rugby. There were trees, so we were always trying to build some kind of fort, or just climbing them (we played "race-climb" a lot). We also like to play "start small fires while chewing tobacco in our tree fort" I have a small burn scar from that one. We also liked to walk to our school and play on the roof, there was a way to climb up. We also slept outside in the summer. We were basically wild jungle children. I hated playing inside, and when i had to, I usually read a book, or practiced writing or fixing my hair. (We didn't have a TV, usually). The thing I hated most is when I asked my friend to come out and play, and he'd say "no, I'm watching TV" or "no, I'm playing ATARI" he let me play once or twice, I LOOOOVED "Pitfall". But also we lived on a big hill (everything in my town is on a big hill) and I had to walk about a mile to the grocery store every day to get our groceries, usually a gallon of milk at least every other day, plus sundries, cause we didn't have a car, then back up the giant hill, from the time I was 7 'till 10. That sucked. Also, the few times when I invited one of my school girlfriends over to play (they were invariably skinny, smart sickly types) it was so boring and they asked "can we play dolls?" or something equally lame, and i would force them to play jumprope or foursquare and would beat them (at the game, not physically) so much that it wasn't that fun. When i went to their house, they wanted me to play dolls, but i didn't really know what to do with them and begged them to play outside with me.
The End.
Wait, omigod, I forgot about taking the bigwheel or the wagon down the hill!!!! sooooooo fun!!! I wish I had a bigwheel now....

[wondergirl9847]

This thread is fun!! Remember Ghost in the Graveyard!!?? We played it at my grandmother's house. It's basically hide and seek and you play it in the dark. Always scared the crap outta me too.

I also used to make forts in my room/living room with chairs and sheets. THAT was fun! My dad had an old tent that he put up in the backyard for me. It stunk, smelled old and musty, but I sprayed lots of Lysol in it. LOL I put up a cot in there and made it my lil home away from home. Ahhhh, good times.

I keep thinking of stuff...I used to play in my room for hours with my stuffed animals, lil figures, dolls, etc. making them talk to one another. I loved playing with Lego too, I went through a serious Lego phase, building houses and stuff. Also, I had Barbies, but never really played with them. LOL I had a few Cabbage Patch Kids...but I also played with Hot Wheels. LOL!!!!

The swingset I had was awesome!! My, my friends, cousins, etc. wore that thing OUT.

I had a friend who lived next door, and she was REALLY into books. I never really was, like her, anyways. She would read those horror books, Christopher Pike and Sweet Valley High books. *GAG* She would call me and go "OMG, Christy, let me read you the back of my new Sweet Valley High book!!" I was like, "Okay." Then, I put the phone down or held it out so I wouldn't have to listen to her. LMAO!!!!!! I didn't care. Her mom let her watch horror and Rated R movies, my mom didn't like when I'd watch that at her house.