Once I discovered how to make the pipe gun with the latex finger the wooden sling shot was quickly forgotten. The good ol days...Your shot shot seems like it would have been to advanced for me back then. LolCitizen B wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 7:43 pmWhen you use all five fingers of the rubber glove you've got yourself a shot shot. It's hard to miss when you've got five fingers full of BBs.Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 7:40 pmYessir! Ain't nothing like breaking off a fresh stick from the ol tree in the yard. That and a few rubber bands and mom's old latex dish glove finger and you got yourself a nice slingshot. Cans for days!
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Me too. And we played army. And as teens, we threw pocket knives at each others feet. And boxed. And wrestled. Oh well...you get the picture.Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:09 pmTechnology ruined the yout. We didn't have that growing up. I played with sticks and dirt.Citizen B wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 3:46 pmThat's what every older person says.Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 3:33 pm Kids are missing out big time these days...it's a shame.
I was talking to two young ladies who looked like they walked out of 1983. They approached me first to compliment me on my outfit. One of them (the prettier one, to my taste) was dressed like Boy George ready to sing Karma Chameleon. The other one, who was nothing to woof at, looked like she was about to audition for Flashdance----oh what a feeling.
It was nice to be taken back in time to better days talking to these two lovely birds. They seemed to enjoy talking to an old doddering fool about what it was like to be 20 years old in the 1980s. They humored me. That's about all I can ask for now that I'm infirm and move slowly.
When we were young, we didn't care. Hormones overrode everything else. You surely remember what that was like.
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We had dirt clod wars, BB gun fights, dare with Jarts and a favorite was Revolutionary War, played with old copper pipe and bottle rockets. The pipe was our flintlock and you'd put a bottle rocket in the business end, light it and fire at the enemy!
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