Posted on 01/02/2015 10:07:07 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Today’s little girls still want to be princesses and little boys will naturally gravitate to playing war and competitive games and sports – often to impress a girl – “loving pure and chaste from afar.” I still remember picking a fight with a kid in order to impress Carol McGovern who I had a crush on in 6th grade – got the hell beat out of me as she walked by. Life lesson learned as Ken and I became friends. At least kissing Donna Hoffman in 1st Grade didn’t get me expelled, but surely chastised by Sister Mary Bernice!
That’s when we took our jackknives to school to play “Knives” – flipping the knife to get it to stick in the ground upright within a ring scratched on the ground. Later in high school we played a stupid game of spreading out our fingers on a table while another kid stabbed between the fingers. He lost if he missed and stabbed a finger. A little bloodshed brought that nonsense to an end. It didn’t need a zero tolerance “progressive” Principal to expel us. Plinking in the fields with our Daisy Red Ryder BB guns and 22’s was a regular occurrence. We had sense enough not to shoot at each other after we carried our “weapons” down the street to the vacant fields.
Sadly, girls’ sports can be venues for unhealthy relationships. My granddaughters were high school All Area Water Polo and Soccer respectively – both offered full boat college scholarships. Neither followed up, opting for academics – and both like boys! Personally, I had mixed emotions because they are outstanding players. Today’s moral climate opens the door for predators of either sex at...
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He kissed a girl and he liked it. Sorry Katy.
I remember mean games of bloody knuckles.
My granddad told me he used to carry his .22 rifle on the school bus for rifle practice on the school’s indoor rifle range. Didn’t have a cover for it, just held it vertical between his legs on the bus. Now if you even mention the word “gun” in school you’re suspended and the class goes to counseling.
I remember most of those games except for the spread fingers and knife stabbings. (I had a bit of common sense back then). Kissing the girls was a real adventure too, Except for the time in 5th grade that I accidently pushed a pretty girl (Whom I really liked) on the front of her chest. WRONG! I apologized profusely and the apology was granted. (PHEW!) She was, and probably still is, real pretty.
I remember in kindergarten, my mom had an arrangement to split the pickup duties with another mom, so I would ride to and from school with a girl named Brooke. Well, she was pretty, and I decided, for some reason, that we must be meant to be together. So, I did what I thought you were supposed to do when you felt that way and proposed marriage to her... every single day on the way to school, and on the way back!
Sure, she said no, but I figured she was just playing “hard to get” and that if I kept asking, eventually she would give in. No such luck though :(
What was she like in high school?
Those kindergarten crushes rarely pass the test of time.
Mine was a cute little Greek girl with long black hair. Her family moved away and then returned. She ended up in my HS class. Still had that long black hair...and a moustache to match.
Back in the 5th grade there was a beautiful girl who would pass me in the hall, and kiss me on the cheek. I didn’t have the nerve to kiss her back. Swooning was all I could manage. She grew into a beautiful, intelligent woman who probably has a great bunch of kids and grandkids now.
I had crush on this girl Cindy. One time I pulled on her beautiful pigtail and it came out in my hand. I was shocked. She turned around and laughed at me. Turns out the pigtail was a wig. A pigtail wig. Love was strong in those days.
Bloody Knuckles. Smear the queer. Suicide soccer. Tackle football. Rugby. King of the monkey bars. Riding bikes without helmets. Guns. Bow and Arrow.
How did I live this long???
“What was she like in high school?”
I can’t say, we only went to kindergarten together, so I only saw her around the neighborhood a few times after that.
It is sick what’s been done to schools.
About ten years ago I visited my elementary school.
They’ve gotten rid of most straight male role models.
Kids can’t play dodge ball anymore.
Kids don’t play kickball anymore.
Some kids are better at it than others, ya know.
I was one of the kids who wasn’t so good as I was a year ahead, and so smaller than most. My eyes were pretty bad. But I enjoyed it. I could knock people out in dodgeball, I could catch a ball sometimes, sometimes I got a good kickball kick.
Just about emasculating boys. And the gym teacher - mine was a real guy - is now a woman, telling me how important self-esteem is and that’s why they don’t do that anymore.
I retired from teaching in June, and while the kids were outside playing before the lunch bell rang, the kids would play this game called "wall ball" They would throw a tennis ball, against one of the walls of the school. The kids would attempt to catch the ball after the first bounce. If you missed, you put yourself face first against the wall, and one of the other kids had a free throw at you.
The boys loved the game. When I retired they were still playing "wall ball".
My first kiss was in kindergarten.
Was she still pretty, Cov? Mustaches are easily removed!
Bump.....
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