Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Well, we did get hurt, but if it only took a few stitches parents didn't freak out and try to 'kid proof' stuff. We still would pull stuff out of the garbage and make stuff out of it. We spent alot of time pretending. Kids toys now are more realistic so they don't use their imaginations as much, or at least that's what I think.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Your absolutley right on that! Matter of fact, for the last 3 months Ive been tryingto get ahold of an old frige box or washer/dryer box so my DS9 can play init. I know he'd love it. both mykid's have great imaginations. When my DD was about 5-6 she wanted a Marmaide Barbie so bad,but Icouldnt' afford on, so she came up with the idea of useing a hair tie to secure a washcloth around her old Barbie's legs, and that was Barbie's flippers. LOL We now call it "ghetto Mermaid Barbie", but she loved her.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Omgosh, thinking back to that made me laugh so hard. She's crack up if I dug one of her old Barbies out and wrapped it in a washcloth and just left it sitting out on the table. LOL!
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Proof of getting hurt: all kids had scabie(not the bugs) knees and elbows...remember picking a scab and becoming blood brothers/sisters? And it was common to have worn a cast on some extremity or the other at least one summer of your life. And we came in filthy every night during the summer and Mom had to at least make you wash your feet(some cases needed whole bathes) before you went to bed so you didn't stain up the nice white sheets.
Originally Posted By Tandelothien >>My friend's and I would make up dances and rehears songs that we danced to and then get our mom's to come watch as we put on a show for them.<< lol, we did that as well. I cringe now at some of the "dance steps" we did :S
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight We used to do a whole skit from Grease, I always had to be Rizzo cause I was the fat kid. LOL!!
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight I swear, I'm laughing so hard over some of this stuff and remembering what we used to do and why we did it. what a hoot!
Originally Posted By Tandelothien I remember doing a performance to Cool World by an Australian band called Mondo Rock, it mostly involved a lot of posing and walking with style instead of real dance steps. And then there was the classic artistic expression of acting out the words of the song i.e. shivering for cool and making a circle with our hands for world. Yep, we were a talented bunch
Originally Posted By csgoofygirl My neighborhood group wrote and performed great theatrical extravaganzas. We made our mothers come, and then charged them a nickel or a dime to come. Amazingly, my own children did exactly the same thing. Childhood memories . . .
Originally Posted By csgoofygirl Our only koolaid customer was the mailman. He would buy a cup every time!
Originally Posted By wahooskipper We did the X-games before anyone knew what the X-games was. Our undeveloped neighborhood plot of land was turned into a BMX park every summer with a bunch of kids and shovels. We made some incredible jumps...and there were some spectacular crashes.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan We did that too, wahoo. We also would build jump ramps for bikes. Somehow, we got the brilliant idea to lie down at the end of the ramp and see how many bodies a person racing along on a bike could clear. Being the person farthest out was always a bit of a heart-starter. Miraculously, no one ever got landed upon. That's probably more 'Jackass' that 'X Games' come to think of it.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper We had one jump called the jacuzzi. We built what looked like a jauzzi by digging out a bunch of dirt, cutting out benches, etc. Then, we filled the thing with kids and started jumping it. The worse accident I saw was a young girl on a "banana seat bike" with a horn and everything try to jump it. Of course, she didn't clear it, her front tire caught the lip of the jacuzzi and up and over she went. I saw it coming but couldn't get their quick enough to stop her. Ouch. I have a vivid memory of her pig tails flying through the air.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight <<The worse accident I saw was a young girl on a "banana seat bike" with a horn and everything try to jump it. Of course, she didn't clear it, her front tire caught the lip of the jacuzzi and up and over she went.>> I know I shouldn't laugh.....but I just cant help it. The whole visual of the banana seat bke complete with horn made me lose it. Did her bike have the long sissy bar or the short one on the back of the seat? That would complete my visual for me.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Ouch. I have a vivid memory of her pig tails flying through the air.<< Were they still attached to her?
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I don't remember the sissy bar but I'm pretty sure there were streamers hanging off the end of the handlebars. Remember those?
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Wich now make it even funnier... Like Cindy Brady flyin through the air. I had those streamers and one of those banana seat's with the high sissy bar. The seat was silver and multi colored speckled,kinda like candy apple coated. what a visual!
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I just thought of how there would be six or seven bikes in our front yard and a line of kids waiting to drink water from our hose.
