When I was a kid...

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Out of Order

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My friend Brian and I liked to go up to the train tracks and put pennies on the rails and watch the freights flatten them. An older boy, Lundy, whose claim to fame in the neighborhood was having a tick on his di__ frozen off, ratted us out to the school gym teacher of all people. Said you could derail the trains. We then moved on to putting the pennies onto Rte. 17 and watching the trucks run over them. Not the same results to be sure and we soon stopped after a few near misses with traffic. We were two of the smarter boys in school, don't you think?
 

DiO'Bolic

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Nov 14, 2013
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As a kid, never went into the woods without it. Lions and tigers and bears and all... :)

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PatInTheHat

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I stole shirts full of apples from the good Sisters of Charity's apple orchard:angel:...well how the hell else was I gonna get Mama to make her wunnerful apple cobbler and pie:indecisiveness:?
Ya know by the sound I have in my head, that may or may not be an exact perfect memory of one penguin's apples boostin' event in particular, can't say they sounded, at least in my head, all that very charitable when it came to apples...'course could maybe might could be I am remembering wrongly, could might be maybe they invited me for a deeeliciously refreshing icy cold lemonade, you know, after a hard hot day swipin' baby Jesus apples:rolleyes:
 

not_nadine

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Behind you
Softball, Basketball, Bowling from way little. Making bases for kickball out of corner streets. The one lady who would never let us use her corner.
(my mom telling us all about how to tp her bushes on mischief eve)

Summer trips to Wildwood, NJ. Beach, rides on the boardwalk.
Seeing my father holding my mother's pocket book awkwardly while we went on the bumper cars.
 
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Doc Creed

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Listening to Mellencamp and Elton John and Springsteen on our boom box, summer sound of push mowers coming alive. My little kid's mind noticing everything as if time had become elastic. The bees bobbing in the thick clover, the pine woods blushing with white dogwoods and telephone poles festooned with wisteria.
The neighborhood kids would wait for my uncle who'd show up in his black Chevy and give us Garbage Pail Kids cards, sour candy, and jelly bracelets. Then we'd roam the streets on our bikes until we heard our parents whistle and could smell the Kingsford charcoal and lighter fluid.
Frivolous games, silly jokes, foot races and sitting silently on the porch swing because we were too hot to talk. Grape Kool-aid tasted like a chilled wine from heaven. Panting for breath we thought those summers would never end.
 

pegasus216

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I have so many memories! Playing outside all day long. Taking a can, and stomping it in the middle so it would wrap around your shoe, and then galloping like a horse, and the can making the clippity clop sound.
Two of my brothers, and myself going into the woods at Christmas time to find a tree, holly with the berries on it, and pine shats with pine cones on them, and mistletoe. The oldest brother had to shoot the mistletoe out of the tree with his gun.
The holidays when all my brothers, and their wives, and kids would come for dinner.
If only I could repeat those days...
 

stacy270

Keep On Floatin' On
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I love this thread!
These were the best bikes for riding triple!
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This stuff was awesome! We didnt get it often.Ummmmmm this packaging would never fly today.
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One of my fondest memories was watching this with my Dad on Saturdays.I hated the Godzilla episodes though.
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I loved these things so much I trolled ebay for them a few years ago and got some Return of the Jedi ones....lol.
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Neesy

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I remember watching Saturday Morning Cartoons and eating Flinstones cereal. I also loved the smell of Love's baby soft in 7th grade. These are very random.
That Loves Baby Soft - did it smell sort of like sweet lemons? I recall going to the drug store in town to spritz in on during free periods at high school when I was about 15 - that was fun.