Posted on 08/15/2014 9:54:14 AM PDT by Drew68
We made bows out of tree limbs and string and arrows out of straight hedge shoots. We put a METAL bottle cap over the end of the “arrow” and stomped on it to sandwich a sharp point.Had one of those buggers go right through my cheek.
Sorry. That should have been 1/4” ball bearings.
1.4” is a hell of a ball bearing
I still have a BB in my leg from the kid two doors away. He’s the mayor now.
I broke the power windows on my dad’s Cadillac Eldorado when they left us unattended one time. When he was in the car, he would never let me play with them, so when he left us in the car to go pick up some dinner, I seized the opportunity to fiddle with them, and sure enough, the motor burned out.
There we were, stuck in a convertible with a window stuck down, in Chicago in December, during a snowstorm. Boy was my dad pissed!
It seemed like at any given time there was at least one kid in class with a cast full of signatures on his broken arm or leg.
Show up at the ER these days with a kid with a broken bone and you'd better have your story straight.
We brought the entire raccoon family to school for show and tell.
I also remember the rock fights. Those really got the adrenaline going!
We would layer up with sweaters and snowsuits until we were well armored, then go at each other with sticks, bats, and shovels, playing “gladiator”.
We used to hyper ventilate and then hold your breath till you passed out. Did it a lot in the nearby soda shop and really freaked the waitress out as you had seizure like motions at the soda bar.
Mama! I’ll bet that boy had a lot of friends knocking on the door.
“sea monkeys”.
weren’t they brine shrimp?
Amazing how much BS was peddled in those comic book ads. And it always took 2 months to get the crap in the mail only to be devastated when you opened up the box and realize the epic gyp.
ROTFLMAOPIMP!
What? No one's hanging by their knees? That was our thing -- even me, and I'm not remotely adventurous!
And mercury. A lot of my mercury ended up embedded in the rug.
She looks like Pamela Austin from Dodge advertizements back in the 1960s!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042487/?ref_=tt_cl_t3
Small town PA
Would later take my son out shooting and he came up with the idea to put carbide in a coke bottle and cap with a balloon which would inflate, tied off and taped fircracker to it. Set in a bush for firebomb. He has his PhD in engineering now.
did the same thing to our buddy’s used Caddy. First day too.
We used the bottle caps for arrow heads, too. I guess we were into recycling long before it became hip.
We also made slingshots. Marbles and ball bearings were great ammo. I got to be pretty danged accurate.
Oh yeah, “smear the queer”! Forgot about that one.
Not very politically correct.
We also had a variation of “ding, dong, ditch”. If the house did not have a doorbell, we’d call it “nigger knock”.
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