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View Poll Results: Which of the following classic childhood things did you do before the age of 13? | |||
Bought an item from a comic book ad | 76 | 45.51% | |
Built a sand castle or other sand structure on a beach | 128 | 76.65% | |
Built a snowman | 162 | 97.01% | |
Camped in your backyard | 133 | 79.64% | |
Carried a lunch box to school | 148 | 88.62% | |
Eaten food cooked over a campfire | 156 | 93.41% | |
Explored an abandoned house or hobo camp with your friends | 113 | 67.66% | |
Fired a bb gun | 150 | 89.82% | |
Got into a bottle rocket fight | 108 | 64.67% | |
Got into a physical fight on a school playground | 128 | 76.65% | |
Had a bike wreck | 153 | 91.62% | |
Had a crush on a babysitter | 70 | 41.92% | |
Had a line in a school play | 106 | 63.47% | |
Had an entry in a Science Fair | 77 | 46.11% | |
Had sex with a hot teacher | 3 | 1.80% | |
Had your own treehouse | 68 | 40.72% | |
Joined the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts or equivalent | 114 | 68.26% | |
Jumped off a diving board, high dive, cliff or rope swing into water | 146 | 87.43% | |
Went to Disneyland/Disneyworld/Epcot | 75 | 44.91% | |
Collected some type of sports cards or collector cards | 129 | 77.25% | |
Kissed a person (on the lips) of whatever sex you now like | 117 | 70.06% | |
Lit sparklers and carried them around | 153 | 91.62% | |
Looked at pornography | 133 | 79.64% | |
Mowed a non-relative’s lawn for money (or shoveled a non-relative’s walk for money) | 107 | 64.07% | |
Operated a lemonade stand | 64 | 38.32% | |
Owned a science kit of some sort (chemistry, electricity, etc.) | 99 | 59.28% | |
Owned an optical science tool - telescope or microscope | 95 | 56.89% | |
Owned Legos, Lincoln Logs, or an erector set | 155 | 92.81% | |
Participated in a spelling bee | 103 | 61.68% | |
Played doctor with a person of whatever sex you now like | 83 | 49.70% | |
Played in a youth sports league | 153 | 91.62% | |
Ran away from home and stayed away at least four hours | 52 | 31.14% | |
Rode a dirt bike (as the driver, not passenger) | 78 | 46.71% | |
Rode a school bus | 136 | 81.44% | |
Rode your bike to a store to buy stuff | 138 | 82.63% | |
Served as an altar boy/girl or equivalent in a religious group | 50 | 29.94% | |
Sold something (candy, cookies, light bulbs, etc.) as a youth fundraiser | 138 | 82.63% | |
Spent 1+ weeks at a relative’s house without your parents for no particular reason | 92 | 55.09% | |
Swam in a river or creek | 141 | 84.43% | |
Took dance lessons | 20 | 11.98% | |
Took piano lessons | 33 | 19.76% | |
Took swimming lessons | 120 | 71.86% | |
Visited a water park | 103 | 61.68% | |
Walked to/from school on your own | 121 | 72.46% | |
Went fishing with a grandparent | 102 | 61.08% | |
Went on a road trip in a station wagon or minivan | 113 | 67.66% | |
Went to a sleepover (or hosted one) | 158 | 94.61% | |
Went to an overnight summer camp | 107 | 64.07% | |
Went to boarding school | 5 | 2.99% | |
I did none of these things | 2 | 1.20% | |
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02-15-2017, 01:50 PM | #181 |
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Here are my "Tame 21".
Things I didn't do, but thought a lot about:
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I was very lucky in that I got away with most of the crap I pulled, and the stuff I got burned on didn't really register much on dad's radar. I got grounded once for cutting class and once for being drunk and fighting (I got my ass kicked, so I guess he didn't feel the need to rip on me on top of it). Had he known about the car shit, that the drunk and fighting was actually drunk, stoned and fighting, or all the times I drove drunk, I would have been in dire trouble. But as it was, my dad never laid a hand on me. Of course, he really didn't have to. I weighted around 130 in high school and my dad was close to the size I am now. I got the "you think you're a man?" line once. I quickly answered, "no, no." |
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02-15-2017, 02:19 PM | #183 | |
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02-15-2017, 02:27 PM | #184 |
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Oh he was back then but he ended up getting married to an alpha female, a real nag. I think he has to get permission to go take a leak. I was a groomsman in his wedding and I remember thinking, this won't end well. I called him several years ago to see if he wanted to go fishing and he told me "my wife said no." I was like, WTF??
I ran into him last year and he was so beaten down from being married to that matriarch that he was completely mellow and would hardly make eye contact.
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02-15-2017, 02:40 PM | #186 |
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These stories remind me of a buddy that I was riding around with in HS. He was fairly drunk at the time and wouldn't let me drive because it was his girlfriends parents car. He asks me to lean back (im in the passenger seat)so he can ditch his empty and then he throws a beer bottle through my window, which he thought was open, but it wasn't. I was like "dude, what the ****?"
He says he thought the window was down, and went on about how ****ed we were. I was like , "we?" |
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02-15-2017, 02:49 PM | #187 |
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41 here. I always felt i had the quintessential American childhood experience. I even built a raft with the intention of floating down the Colorado River like a modern day Huck Finn, but then my parents refused to help me transport it from our backyard to the river. It's probably for the best that they didn't let me go through with that crazy idea.
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I had one of those once. Lasted about seven months, which was about eight months too long. Thank God I never married her. |
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02-15-2017, 03:05 PM | #189 |
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We did it in the winter when roads were covered in ice or snow with no skateboard or bike. Just slide with your shoes on the ice. We called it hopping bumpers.
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02-15-2017, 04:24 PM | #191 |
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Yeah that's exactly the way we did it.
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02-15-2017, 04:55 PM | #193 |
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I had THE All-American childhood.
In case you're wondering...That's my pa, feeding hipster beer to a baby deer we caught while mowing hay. We're wearing matching jackets my mom made and he's wearing a hat a relative brought back from Viet Nam for him...at my grandpa's farm where I can see a barn we played in and a river I swam, fished and camped near with cousins and uncles. I helped milk cows, butcher chickens, hogs, beef and deer in barns I can see in this pic. I lived the dream and didn't even know it. |
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02-15-2017, 05:30 PM | #194 |
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That reminds me, I still havent received those AC/DC and Motley Crew pins/banners I ordered when I was in 4th grade. I dont know what could have went wrong putting cash and exact change in the envelope.
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