Let’s see. Dug for buried treasure. Built tree forts. Made projectile weapons out of TV antenna, steel coathangers and bike inner tubes, played “war” (like video games but healthy exercise), seminars on girls’ anatomy conducted by a guy who had sisters, conducted search missions to make great discoveries like which dads kept beer in the garage, collected drink bottles for the deposits (ten bought you two nickel cherry Cokes), explored the aerodynamic limits of Schwinn bicycles, anything you can do with a BB gun, gathered and ate mulberries (tried to think of an explanation for the stains that wouldn’t enrage mom), rode bikes down the beach popping stranded man-o-wars, dropped firecrackers down the chain link fence posts (well of course you always kept enough fire crackers), spent half a day debating how to use the cherry bomb or M-80 donated by someone’s big brother, explored crawl spaces under houses, installed playing cards on bicycles with clothes pins to make them into “motorcycles”,… the list is endless.
Let’s see. Dug for buried treasure. Built tree forts. Made projectile weapons out of TV antenna, steel coathangers and bike inner tubes, played “war” (like video games but healthy exercise), seminars on girls’ anatomy conducted by a guy who had sisters, conducted search missions to make great discoveries like which dads kept beer in the garage, collected drink bottles for the deposits (ten bought you two nickel cherry Cokes), explored the aerodynamic limits of Schwinn bicycles, anything you can do with a BB gun, gathered and ate mulberries (tried to think of an explanation for the stains that wouldn’t enrage mom), rode bikes down the beach popping stranded man-o-wars, dropped firecrackers down the chain link fence posts (well of course you always kept enough fire crackers), spent half a day debating how to use the cherry bomb or M-80 donated by someone’s big brother, explored crawl spaces under houses, installed playing cards on bicycles with clothes pins to make them into “motorcycles”,… the list is endless.