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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, 05:44 PM | #197 |
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Wow, I had a super classic American childhood upbringing and I still have dead hookers in my trunk.
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02-15-2017, 06:03 PM | #198 |
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Glad to see America is still alive
Now lets go pop some wheelies on our Choppers. |
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02-15-2017, 06:03 PM | #199 |
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Oh, no, no we do that living near the ocean. We had rafts, canoes, row boats, sail fish, small motor boats and Catamarans when older. We would sink 'em, tip 'em over, spin them around over and over and take the over others whether on a lake or the ocean.
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02-15-2017, 06:19 PM | #200 |
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We discussed trying to catch a baby deer this spring and doing a recreation pic.
One of the all American childhood things we did that isn't listed...we had an old Honda three wheeler. In the winter after chores, dad would tie an old plastic sled behind it and pull us around the pasture. I think the other all American childhood thing was the odd sized , make shift baseball diamond in the yard, and the pasture by moms garden when we got bigger. After chores or when my cousins and friends were at our place, we played a lot of ball. If it was just us, we had a vintage catchers mitt and we'd practice for little league. Ha.te to know how many fastballs I threw at my brother between 4-6 grade. We were pretty broke but the older I get the better I realize we had it. When you're broke, you raise a big garden and eat pork chops and cured bacon. I'm so fortunate as it taught me how to succeed today. I'm trying hard to give some of these same things to my kids today....if I can get them away from a screen device. |
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Nice job Halfcan. I could only think of a couple.
Trying to give the dog the food you don't want for dinner. My dogs were always like "**** these veggies" and I would get caught. Having to write 100 or 1000 depending how sadistic your teacher was "I will not talk in class" type shit. You would draw a line all the way down the paper for the I's. |
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Growing up in Louisiana I can check most of these off except the hot teacher and spelling bee.
I lived right on the bayou. Used to go stand on an old bridge and watch/throw rocks at the gators in the evenings. I remember having to take the long way to school one day because one of those SOBs was sunning in the middle of the road. |
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My bad bike ramp story involved landing wrong - it jarred me and my face went into the metal bar between the handlebars. Broke off parts of both my front teeth, the space resembling an inverted V. Had to have both teeth capped.
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This was a dirt jump, and most are gradual, so you launch off the apex by pulling back on the handle bars and extending your feet on the pedals to land back wheel first. So this particular jump was a pop up jump, where it's vertical at the end and throws you into the air. If you pull back on the handlebars and extend your feet like normal, you end up throwing the bike out in front of you. Quite the opposite, you need to stiffen your arms and draw your feet up into a crouch. So my cousin comes flying along, hits the jump, throws the bike about 20 feet in front of him, and lands heel first from about 15 feet in the air, spraining both his ankles. |
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