Posted on 10/07/2013 9:19:38 PM PDT by grundle
“You aren’t old enough for this swing set from the 1920s, but check it out closely, the slide isn’t a slide at all but is some kind of diabolical death trap——”
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Good lord. I would have avoided that like the plague because I was a “girly” girl which was an acceptable thing to be in those days.
The mother in the picture seems to be on high alert though. Some things never change.:-)
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That sounds like an awesome game. I was growing up when the sissification had already started. No pocket knives for us.
“Rocks. Sticks. Dirt , sand Swimming in the lake. Catching animals.
Now. Mathematics. If you’re a cute girl and good at math it’s a golden road for you!”
That is a well rounded girl. Having just left an engineering program in college, I can attest to your last sentence. The ratio of guys to cute girls is about 500:3. If she ever needs help with schooling, guys will be tripping over each other to help her.
It WAS a hoot! I had to think back a bit on just how we played it. (I saw different ways other guys played it), but we had 2 guys stand facing each other about 3-5 feet apart. First guy would throw down his knife into the grass sticking it in as close to his foot as he felt he wanted to go for his first toss. Then the other guy would throw. If he was in closer to his foot with his throw then what the first guy had done with his first throw, the first guy got one throw to try to get in closer than that, (or ‘tie’ it up), to his foot. And back and forth ya went until one kid uncled, didn’t want to try to get in closer than what his opponent had done on his last toss. ‘Tie’ stick ins were sometimes hard to judge so another kid might judge it, (or even a teach/playground monitor was used to Ref.) Cheating? Oh yeah! The main way was one player, (or that player’s pal), distracting the other player’s attention somehow and then player one would move his foot closer to his knife!!! That dog!!!! Their were a few fights over that sort of thing but NEVER, not ONCE, did I never NOT see both guys dump their knives immediately and just go to Duke City. Like I said, things were sure a lot different then....Later ‘Gator.
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