How about getting on a bus and going to the movies on Saturday? Or getting dropped off at the mall?
Sitting in your dad’s lap and driving the car.
Having rock wars - two teams of kids on different sides of the creek, with a raft in the middle going down the creek. Guys with rocks on the raft, guys hiding in the little structure in the center of the raft. People throwing rocks at the raft as it floated by. Everyone took a break so that they could get the raft back up the creek. People argued about who was going to get to be on the raft first.
Sleeping outside in the backyard under the stars in the summer.
Playing ‘smear the queer’ on the playground. Guy with the ball gets to run around with it while everyone tries to tackle him on the pavement. Once tackled, you give up the ball.
As an altar boy, there was always snacking on the unconsecrated hosts, or taking a pull from a bottle of muscatel used to fill the cruet before Mass.
Bringing the neighbor kids over to haul railroad ties and bricks in the backyard, then paying them #5 and taking them to the local corner store to load up on candy, and thinking we kids got the great end of that deal.
Our parents smoked in the house. Fed us liver.
We erected massive bicycle jumps on the cul-d-sac and jumped kids who laid under the ramp. Nobody had a helmet on. Ever. I can’t remember the last time I saw I kid with a BMX bike jumping in the street, even off of driveway ramps that are built into the sidewalk.
Unsupervised use of firecrackers and fireworks. Unsupervised use of Estes Rockets. Unsupervised use of wrist rockets and BB guns.
Or going with your older brother to see Flash Gordon serials at the movie theater early on a Saturday.......all for a nickel!