The things you remember doing when you were young?

kaizaku wrote: »

I saved money to buy a water super soaker gun. You pump the gauge and water shoots with force. I was so amazed since before then I only only had a baby Eater pistol that use to squint water.

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i remember watching the mickey mouse club that had justin, christina, britney, kerri before they became big names.. and then there was a group called The party the was formed.. oh how i miss those days

I had an idyllic childhood, and I am grateful. I grew up on the South Fork of Long Island, NY in the 1960s, when it was still really rural, mostly potato farms, with a small summer community and only a few celebrity homes, most of which were fairly unassuming. The old money was in Southampton and East Hampton, out by the beach. We were middle class working people. My Dad was a printer.

Bridgehampton was a sleepy hamlet with maybe two dozen businesses on Main Street, surrounded by potato farms. We lived about a mile south of town, along one of the many estuaries that cut into the ocean shore. I had a 16' Old Town sailing canoe that was where I spent about half my free time. I could put in from our lawn and be on the ocean beach in about 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the wind. If I went the other direction, I could get the canoe up the stream into the swamp almost a mile. The 'swamp' was a 250 acre nature preserve directly across the street from us.

Most summers, I took my shoes of when I got home on the last day of school in June, and didn't put them back on until after Labor Day. Sandals and flip-flops if I had to go out to eat or into a store or something.

When I wasn't in the canoe, I was either biking to the beach to go bodysurfing and chase girls (from 13 on...!), or wandering through the swamps, fields and woods.

These days, the influx of new money and celebrity stupidity has ruined the area as far as I'm concerned. All of the potato fields have been developed, zoned anywhere from 1 to 5 acres, and most of the properties are surrounded with 10' privet hedges, which ruins the open spaces and views. The family-owned businesses on Main Street have all been replaced by trendy hipster boutiques and over-priced pretentious restaurants. I used to know at least a dozen places where I could drive down to the water, or up to the edge of a field, and look out and see no sign of humans anywhere; those places are all gone now.

I still go out there occasionally just to get out of the city, but it's difficult for me. It makes me sad to see what's been done in the name of "progress".

Anyway, I have a lot of really great memories, including the pals I hung out with, and the girls I dated, the jobs I had, the peace and quiet, the wild places, the BEACH(!!) and I'm thankful that my parents were able to give me that kind of childhood.

Watching MUSIC VIDEOS on MTV.

Sleeping on the floorboards in the backseat on long car trips (because my big sister was taking up the seat).

I remember playing block wide neighborhood hide-n-seek at night time. Was a blast, things like that just don't happen here in the U.S. I don't think. Grew up in Mexico.

kellyannvarney1 wrote: »

I think we spent every spare moment at the ice rink pulling each other round to bad music that we thought was great. Either that or wheelie bin racing !!!! Good times

Ha! When I was in middle school, the roller rink was THE PLACE to hang out. Whipping your best friend around the outside corner so fast that she couldn't see. Trying to do the hokey pokey on clunky roller skates. Tumbling all over yourself trying to win the wheelbarrow races.

Hungry_Angler wrote: »

I remember playing block wide neighborhood hide-n-seek at night time. Was a blast, things like that just don't happen here in the U.S. I don't think. Grew up in Mexico.

It used to.

Riding my bike across town to get milkshakes at the gazebo at the park.

Playing Oregon Trail on the school computer and some flight simulator game with a joy stick on our home computer. Also playing minesweeper but I didn't know the rules till just a few years ago, lol.

Using my boom box to record radio songs on to a cassette and stopping/starting during the commercials so the tape just had music.

watching Saturday morning cartoons

Preparing breakfast with my dad on the weekends, going to the sea shore and making sand castles. Playing peer rangers with my friends and watching home alone and Casper. Eating speghetti or as I used to call it pesghetti

Swapsies at school(trading things like scented rubbers,glitter pens etc)
Looking for "treasure" in the brook at the local park
Making "potions" from different garden berries
Climbing trees
Swimming all day and then picking up chips with extra cracklin from the local chippy
Colouring and drawing
Reading for hours on end
Kiss chase
Runouts
Hardly seeing my parents during summer holidays because I was always outside

Lots of fond memories

Lol Good point!

Swimming in the pond, plucking leeches off afterwards
Daily summer trips to the lake to swim or water ski
In 4th-6th grade I remember my brother & I getting off the school bus & grabbing our .22 rifles & fishing poles so we could walk around to the other local farms to go fishing. No one cared about that back then.
In 6th grade I would swipe the key to my dad's CB650 motorcycle & go ride it around the back roads & then siphon gas out of the lawn mower to fill it back so I wouldn't get caught.
Just being a crazy *kitten* redneck farm boy in general.