streme Wheelie
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Dude that's so cool. Me and my buddy used to try and force jump across this little gap in the playground and I think one other kid like died there because he was too fat to jump it or something so they pulled it apart and we just had to do backflips instead
Sunny days:
Manhunt
Freeze Tag
Rainy days:
7up all day errday (make sure to cheat by looking at the kid's shoes!)
When I was in elementary I can't remember what games in specific we would play, but I remember there was a whole lot of running involved most of the time. We would play a lot of soccer in junior high or some basket ball or even played with marbles, there was no definite game. Or we would just spend our time at the computer lab playing games.
In grades kindergarten through third we had awesome playground equipment. Two sets of swings, two jungle gyms, a crazy pyramid thing, four slides that were HUGELY TALL like 12 feet, one of those wooden things with monkey bars, bridge and slides, and some crazy thing that I'm pretty sure were just pipes stuck in the ground with one horizontally across the top to hand upside down. And huge trees to play in. We lived like kings there.
In fourth grade we had a different playground. One swingset. A set of monkey bars. Basketball hoops. That was it. We spent most of our time in the tree line building "forts" with stuff we found from home. And getting in trouble for being there.
In fifth grade we had an old football field with no playground equipment. Just a dusty baseball diamond in one corner. You knew childhood was over once you got to fifth grade and there was nothing to do. I was tall and strong so I gave people shoulder rides around the field until that was deemed "unsafe" and I got in trouble.
When it rained sometimes they let us watch a movie, but usually we just worked on something else.
I think we still need playground equipment and recess. Instead of going to my car and looking at facebook on my break, I think I'd like to swing on a swingset or climb on a jungle gym.
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Number munchers > Word MunchersOriginally Posted by Pike
We had this game at my school called "Toilet Monster" which involved having one person (the "Toilet Monster") inside this pyramid-jungle-gym thing who would try to jump up and tag the kids hanging around on the outside before they would hit the top of the pyramid and "flush" him. It was a pretty unbalanced game because the Toilet Monster's odds were pretty damn low but none of the kids seemed to care.
Myself, I liked to stay indoors and play Word Munchers:
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3rd and 4th grade I'd play chess during recess with a few other guys from my class. We'd have tournaments like nerds.
In junior school, we'd do a lot of different games:
Kiss chase
British Bulldog
Quick Cricket
Spin the bottle
were all popular, there sure as hell was a lot of kissing going on from years 4 - 6 no wonder I turned out like I did lol.
On rainy days we'd be classroom bound, some teachers I had were terrible and would be like "sit around and read or whatever" other teachers were pretty cool I remember one class teacher had us building an island as a class for geography and so she used to get us working on that whenever we could. We owned the school competition for best class project that year because it RAINED A LOT.
In high school it was a bit different, gone were the games of kiss chase and british bulldog. Instead we played;
football
basketball
handball
penny up the wall - form of gambling amongst kids, bit like marbles except you threw a penny against the wall, the person who landed their penny closest wins bets would consist of around £1 however due to chances of losing the coins we only played with penny coins.
crucifixion - A horrible game were some poor sap would be ambushed and then tied to the school fence somewhere towards the end of break by the perps ties, we all got in big trout more than once for having left the person there at the end of break, unsurprisingly we were all easily caught too, our ties being knotted in to the chainlink fencing.
On rainy days we'd play more basketball if we got put in the gym or the old gym. We'd do trampolining if we got put in the hall, and if we were put in a class often the tamagotchi's came out or the pokemon trading cards. Sometimes there'd be a game or two of spin the bottle but teachers would clamp down on that like it was us playing "go in the toilets and smurf if it lands on you" instead of kiss. Some teachers would simply be all "get on with your homework"
I remember one day in year 10 myself and about 20 other guys were like "smurf the police" or rather "smurf the teachers" and went outside to play basketball in the pouring rain, our last lesson was PE so we didn't care if we got wet... we thought we looked so bad ass with our curtained hair (it was cool in those days, David Beckham had curtains at this point) and white school shirts getting soaked through, looking back and taking off the rose tinted glasses we looked like idiots. We didn't care it was awesome! We got a weeks worth of detentions for that too.
since we're being all dark now
i never went outside during lunch, i stayed in the library and read books. sometimes i did homework. i read every star wars book in my school library between grades 4-6 but now i don't remember any of them. i also couldn't really talk english so i guess this helped me. the librarian eventually insisted i go outside and play, but i think i only played soccer a few times with the other kids. avoided outside like the plague. unfortunately that meant i was playing catch-up in terms of social contacts development with peers for a few years after.
before emigration, grades 1-3, i'd start class wide fights and pretend i had my own gang of jean jacket wearing kids
in the spring/fall i used to take off my shirt, fill it with gravel like a rucksack and then dump it on some unsuspecting sucker below
in the winter i stayed in the cafeteria and played super mario land and link's awakening or read goosebumps books
Played this five-level demo of Lemmings on the Acorn Archimedes and repeatedly failed at the final level.
Failing that I'd walk laps of the place waiting to go back inside. The other kids didn't like me much because being good at school work was frowned upon in my school.
When I was older I went to the library and did my homework, if I did it at all. Always objected to having that. Otherwise due to the fact I had no computer at home I was playing FF6 on an emulator. With no sound. I'll let the misfortune of that sink in.
streme Wheelie
Recognized Member
Bro that is smurfing horrible. Do you just listen to the soundtrack on loop now while crying into your cereal? I smurfing would
Rainy days were the best in second grade.
My classroom was very large and had this small elevated stage area, so you could recline like a Roman against it while playing with these badass mathematical blocks. There was one small 1x1 square, a long 1x10 squares, and a large 10x10 square. They were supposed to teach you about place value systems, but we just built with them instead. (see jiro, but less propulsion)
the worst was during the winters if it didn't dry up, because we were forced to stay on the paved blacktop part of the playground, but we couldn't stay inside because teh teachers were like 'smurf daaaaaat'. So the entire population on recess was constricted to a small fraction of the total area, with none of the fun playground equipment. So we had to resort to playing foursquare (both variations-- the one with the ball, and the local variation where players ran to switch squares while one person stood in the middle to try and take someone's position), basketball, tetherball, hopscotch (none of us were very certain on this, so we made it up a little), jumped rope, stood on this giant painting of the 50 states (or maybe just the lower 48), or just milled around while staring at the fun swings and slides and jungle gyms we were prevented from accessing on account of mud.
but! glorioski! when the mud dried and we had full reign! kick ball games, swinging, doing flips'n'tit, hanging out in the super elite only-four-at-a-time penthouse treehouse
picking flowers and weeds, running amok on the merry go round, the short-lived jogging club, the pull-up bars
The absolute worst was in high school. Coke break and lunch break, you had 300 students milling around a small courtyard and common area, bored, drinking sugar and caffeine. A breeding ground for drama!
hahaha, yes this. The exact same smurfing thing with us. One of the girls who ran from class president campaigned that she would get us better recess equipment. At least we got kickball balls eventually.
I just realized I'm forgetting the details of my childhood. smurf.
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