Lawn Darts, LOL, can’t believe we survived our childhood playing with those things! Not to mention playing “war” with our BB guns (pre airsoft days) - terrible idea - please don’t try that… I’ve still got a scar on my forehead right above my eyes. Yes, my friends and I were pretty stupid, but boy did we have fun on those long summer breaks!
Yeah teachers have to have 20 in service days DURING the school year instead of doing it in the summertime like our teachers did 40 years ago. Getting soft in the ones educating our kids and sh!t rolls downhill to the kids.
You too??? We used to take wax and heat it up in our fingers and put it in our pellet guns and shoot it at each other. Boy, that hurt. Never watched "A Christmas Story" until adulthood, sadly--"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
My little brother hit me in the ass with a BB gun when I was riding my bike. My dad got a hold of him, made him walk out to the firing line and turn around. He was shitting his pants as dad pretended to aim and got ready to fire. He never did, but the lesson was learned. Eddie the Eagle couldn't have done a better job. Haha!! Gotta love the 70's.
Old soda cans, tape, tennis balls, and lighter fluid: cool cannon. Seems to work best when you make a naïve little brother stick the match in the ignition hole. LOL
I'm a middle-aged very respectable looking lady and a few years ago my when I broke my ankle the doctor asked me why I had a BB in my foot. I laughed about it pretty hard bc of the memories of my childhood flooded back. The young doctor looked horrified at my reaction.
I don't know if I agree with you on older doctors being so shocked. They spent time experiencing things, too and Buttercups are not generally becoming doctors. 🙂
Lawn Darts, LOL, can’t believe we survived our childhood playing with those things! Not to mention playing “war” with our BB guns (pre airsoft days) - terrible idea - please don’t try that… I’ve still got a scar on my forehead right above my eyes. Yes, my friends and I were pretty stupid, but boy did we have fun on those long summer breaks!
And don't forget playing with fireworks like cherry bombs!
Yep - been there, done that too - winging bottle rockets at each other! Fun times indeed!
Yup. You only had to point it the wrong way once to figure out how to make sure you had it the right way
Lol. Exactly.
My favorite was lighting one just as one of my buddies was teeing off on the golf course...or anytime for that matter.
Fire! FIRE!
Those were the days.
We still have our Jarts (lawn darts).
"Long Summer breaks." Now they get, what, 3 weeks for Summer break? It's absolutely ridiculous!
Yeah teachers have to have 20 in service days DURING the school year instead of doing it in the summertime like our teachers did 40 years ago. Getting soft in the ones educating our kids and sh!t rolls downhill to the kids.
Agree
Yep - good ole Jarts! :)
And the helicopter parents send them off on Japanese Maths camps.
Yeah, like being perfect isn't stress enough.
You too??? We used to take wax and heat it up in our fingers and put it in our pellet guns and shoot it at each other. Boy, that hurt. Never watched "A Christmas Story" until adulthood, sadly--"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
Oh my little brother took one in the eyelid when he was 12.
It was only at that point my mom confiscated the pellet and bb guns.
.....temporarily
My little brother hit me in the ass with a BB gun when I was riding my bike. My dad got a hold of him, made him walk out to the firing line and turn around. He was shitting his pants as dad pretended to aim and got ready to fire. He never did, but the lesson was learned. Eddie the Eagle couldn't have done a better job. Haha!! Gotta love the 70's.
BB guns were for losers! We used to make bow and arrows out of sticks and catapults out of metal coathangers. Those were the days!
Did you ever use the inner tyres from bikes, and the big sturdy cardboard tubes they used to have maps rolled up on in school?
Makes a mean tube-catapult, when combined with lead shot.
Old soda cans, tape, tennis balls, and lighter fluid: cool cannon. Seems to work best when you make a naïve little brother stick the match in the ignition hole. LOL
That’s hilarious! Awesome dad! Thanks for the laugh!
LOLOLOL.
That is classic
hahahaha - glad he's ok (I assume)
He's all good and tough as nails now
Right?! Lol. How else were we supposed to keep score?!
We even went so far as building POW "prisons"
I'm a middle-aged very respectable looking lady and a few years ago my when I broke my ankle the doctor asked me why I had a BB in my foot. I laughed about it pretty hard bc of the memories of my childhood flooded back. The young doctor looked horrified at my reaction.
I would think, nowadays the "old" doctors would look horrified, too. It seems no one does anything out of the ordinary, or gets hurt.
I don't know if I agree with you on older doctors being so shocked. They spent time experiencing things, too and Buttercups are not generally becoming doctors. 🙂