Back When You Were Young (ages 5-10)

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What was it like? What did you always look forward to? What kind of games? (electronic or board or outside play)

I was a dare devil! It wasn't long ago, only about about 4 years ago, but it seems like it was a looooong time ago. Anyways, whenever we were going to do something stupid, which was a lot, I always went first. Yet I have never broken a bone. We(meaning kids on the block and me) always played somekind of tag or game, such as capture the flag, fun game. Now I don't do that stuff as much, every once in a while. I went to Disney World in 2nd grade and thought I could ride all the big rides! But really I was scared out of my wits. When we went on this dinorsour ride I was hiding my face in my grandma's shoulder. And they took a picture of the ride, I was pretty embarassed.

 

When i was 5 i used to be a loner, sitting in the back of the class, constantly sharpening my pencil..hehe.cough.

But as i got older i had a couple of best friends and climbing trees seemed to be the constant atractions. In fact they still are. I am the champion tree climber in this area, a tree surgeon once asked me if i could get hsi hat back fro him cos he left it 60ft up and couldn't climb it without the ropes lol!

Although i am now 17. Must stop, must stop. nah! who cares!

 

I had many friends and was the geek that every one liked. Now I'm not. I also played with toy cars. I still have them too! I play with them some times to bring back the old days.

I'm still very kid like.

 

Ahhh yes... the good ol days with my 8088 (you could hit the turbo button for a whopping 4MHz!) and my 300 baud modem. All the long hours playing Starflight or Starflight 2; finally upgrading to at 386 when I was 9... time for Master of Orion and Master of Magic! Also building massive lego starships. Ahh yes those were good times.

Damn I was a dorky kid.

 

Uggh! When I was five to ten...Home PC's were not invented, and the best home video game out there was the Atari 2600!!! CD's were 16" and made out of vinyl.

My friends and I spent most of our time playing baseball, street hockey, american football, basketball, building tree forts, riding bikes, and playing Risk.

Ahh...The good REALLY old days...........

 

Did anyone do anythign stupid? I always ran into walls, I hate walls, they're stupid!

 

Um...walls Findol?

 

Football (soccer) and tractors I guess. I always loved tractors. I remember I looked forward to being old enough to bike long distances away from home .

 

Yes walls, I've ran into 10 too many.

 

Umm...Findol, not to burst your bubble or anything, but the idea is to walk around the walls.

More to the topic...

I used to slide down stairs headfirst. And cant forget wrecking bikes....(though, not intentionally)

 

age 5 to 6 for me was one of the most difficult time in my life -- communication-wise. we moved to another province that spoke an entirely different dialect. all those kids were friendly but i just don't understand what they're talking about. and me, i just keep my mouth shut most of the time until i start learning to speak their lingo. now, i can speak about 3 languages and 3 dialects.

most of the games we played then are outdoor games, climbing trees (not good with this), and stealing fruits from neighboors' trees, kites (i was d best among my friends), and who can forget marbles and firecrakers. indoor games are usually snake and ladders, monopoly, scrabble (yea, even at an early age), matchbox, and game & watch.

stupid things as findol termed them. yes, i remembered i ran into the wall once. i remembered seeing stars, literally. and had a big lump on my forehead for a couple of days. and i also rammed my bicycle into a car. you should see my bike's potato-chip front wheel, and i remembered the owner of the car was more concerned with his hub cap.

this is a nice thread. brings back the good ol' days.

 

I dont remember that much from those ages but one memory that is rather vivid is me and a friend running a round and playing. Then for some reason we collide I run into his back and plants my front teeth in his shoulder. First he cried like hell and the people that have seen it quickly came to comfort him. Then they saw me, I had knocked out both my frontal teeth. I ran around without them until my adults teeth came, 3 years later or something

 

IM CLUMSY! Very clumsy if you all wonder why I run into so many walls.

 

I spent most of the time with my cosin whose mother (my aunt) would watch us while my parents worked. She had a huge back yard with 2 small fields and a bit of woods. Not to mention she had a little playhouse. So the eight of us (my 2 siblings, 2 cosins, 3 neighbors, and me) would play Huckleberry Finn, Peter Pan, Robin Hood, the current disney movie, Cowboys and Indians, X-men, Chucky (heheheh)The list goes on. That was fun unless you didn't feel like playing anything- then you got to stand in the corner for a few hours (or so it seemed). Yep that was fun.

 

Lego, I also did a lot of reading I believe. I have an atrocious memory, so it's hard to remember stuff from way back then. (read:ten years)

 

When I was about 10 I was a Weird Kid.I didn't like ham burgers,hotdogs,bb&j or any of the things other things kids like. then after my 11th B-day I was interested in this web site(still am) http://www.spellsandmagic.com/ yes i know most you dont Beleive in magic But i do.Any way when i was 5 I was clumsy i used to stub my toe,fall down stairs and other stuff

 

I miss drinking out of a garden hose.

Handstands, starting every other sentence with 'Let's pretend...,' swinging on ropes into the river, swimming, slip 'n slide, Intellivision, laughing so hard your milk came out your nose, when the Captain Asteroid Death Ray Pistol was, in fact, a stick, big banana-seat bicycles with glow-in the dark doohickeys on the spokes...

And sleep..Your parents would drag you off to some dinner party and you'd be knocked out by nine-thirty. They'd pick you up, put you in the car, drive you home, walk you upstairs, put you in your jammies and tuck you in...and you never woke up.

Wish I could sleep like that now..

 

We would drink out of the garden hose only when my Aunt tried to make Kool Aid *shudder* Probably the only person in the world who couldn't make that stuff taste ok...

 

I'm still a kid but anyway.I look forward to video games.I also like to read.When i grow up I will misss my handstands,drinking from the hose,sliping out of bed to sleep on the cars roof,waking up at 3 and playing on the computer,lego,toy cars,my books.I am the school geek who everyone think is cool.I think that I spand too much time on the net and reading and playing for endless hours either the BG series or ehrgeiz.Maybe even FFVII

[This message has been edited by Padine the Paladin (edited June 05, 2002).]