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In reply to the discussion: Things we did growing up that kids today don't get? [View all]demosincebirth
(12,541 posts)138. playing on original Monkey Bars. They wouldn't pass muster in this day and age...toooo dangerous.
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We didn't take state tests-er, I mean ASSESSMENTS every goddamned month.
Still In Wisconsin
Jun 2017
#71
My brother and I had a barrel we would use to roll down the hill by our house :)
Luciferous
Jun 2017
#211
Yup. My friends and I would ride our bikes to the city dump and dig around for "cool stuff". n/t
Binkie The Clown
Jun 2017
#26
We use to look for cool broken rejects in the back of the glass factory 10-12 never a cut
lunasun
Jun 2017
#62
I lived in a blue collar section of Milwaukee- every family had a bell.
Still In Wisconsin
Jun 2017
#72
Running inside when the fog truck (DDT for mosquitos) came barreling down the street n/t
moonscape
Jun 2017
#206
Carrying fire from cave to cave. I mean, who knows when you'll see that again? NT
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2017
#16
I grew up with other kids running through the countryside. No one knew where we were.
lindysalsagal
Jun 2017
#22
Talking on a phone that's attached to the kitchen wall by a cord, & Dad saying "Get off the phone!"
lindysalsagal
Jun 2017
#21
There was a little broom closet off our kitchen, close to the phone base
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2017
#99
making home made fresh peach ice cream in a hand cranked ice cream maker on a hot summer day
luvMIdog
Jun 2017
#27
Akin to that is when TVGuide listings stopped at around 3am, and picked back up at 6.
Aristus
Jun 2017
#48
Oh yeah I remember the card sound fitt fitt fitt . I think some kids used to spraypaint them too?
lunasun
Jun 2017
#64
My feet often had poison ivy on the soles and up along my ankles.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2017
#100
I had a red one in 1962---I listened to "Sherry" while riding my (no-speed) bike!
WinkyDink
Jun 2017
#68
Plenty of people would still like to get those . A friend was after my fathers planners and my
lunasun
Jun 2017
#66
Running around the yard in our bathing suits with the lawn sprinkler going wide open.
Grammy23
Jun 2017
#50
I also remember tightening my skates tight enough that they wouldn't slip off!
Grammy23
Jun 2017
#174
Chores first, be home when the street lights come on, drinking from the hose rather then going insid
irisblue
Jun 2017
#69
Playing baseball in the summer. All day, every day, unless we were swimming.
Still In Wisconsin
Jun 2017
#74
We would play outside all day long w/o the ubiquitous water bottles you see with everyone nowadays.
Laffy Kat
Jun 2017
#82
When the school bus driver lit up a cigarette, it was okay for the kids to smoke too.
Kaleva
Jun 2017
#90
playing on original Monkey Bars. They wouldn't pass muster in this day and age...toooo dangerous.
demosincebirth
Jun 2017
#138
Not entirely intact. I did lose patches of skin fairly regularly.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2017
#146
when my friend told me what it meant and that my parents did it I was enraged. I told her
luvMIdog
Jun 2017
#154
Our "baseball" field had bases consisting of trees and a manhole cover.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2017
#195
That pre-dares me BUT Hand held landlines used to pick up other phone calls
underpants
Jun 2017
#200
When I was a little kid we had one phone, a big black rotary desk phone
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2017
#198
We just roller-skated (with skate keys!)-- and fell down and skinned our knees
ailsagirl
Jun 2017
#193