Things you did as kids that they don't do now!

[Pavilionaire]

Searching for Adders, grass snakes, slow worms. Taking girlfriends for a walk across Hollingbury golf course, showing them my prowess with a wedge (oo er) and then having a right good roll around on the Roman camp and in Monty's bunker up the 12th (old 10th).

Birdying the 12th - good effort!

 

[aberdare seagull]

Bunking off school to go down the arcades to play games like outrun, double dragon, track n field or defender

 

[Return of the Rev]

Bunking off school to see the Albion get humiliated 4-0 at home to a non league outfit

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

lobbing them out on the mill hill bridge as well

THROWING CUSHIONS OUT OVER THE LONDON ROAD VIADUCT , letting off fire extinguishers on trains, only what is see mind
regards
DR

 

[BigGully]

I see plenty of 8 year olds out and about with groups their own age. You lot seem to think that all kids do is sit in on the computer. It's just not true. Stop being grumpy old men.

I am a grumpy old man, however I am not 'avin it that round your way there are groups of 8 year old's without a supervised, likely CRB checked adult.

I do at times see a few littlin's on their bikes and I feel slightly uplifted to see them, but my Wife tut's the way wifes can and she reminds me that they are just too young to be out alone and demands to know where their parents are, so I go back to being grumpy.

 

[thisistips]

Spend hours in record shops on a saturday

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

RUNNING AMOK IN A CLOSED DOWN CINEMA ,up in the projector room and in the loft HIDING WHERE EVER YOU WANTED finding loads of stashed corona fizzy drinks in the GENERATOR ROOM
regards
DR

 

[Nibble]

I am a grumpy old man, however I am not 'avin it that round your way there are groups of 8 year old's without a supervised, likely CRB checked adult.

I do at times see a few littlin's on their bikes and I feel slightly uplifted to see them, but my Wife tut's the way wifes can and she reminds me that they are just too young to be out alone and demands to know where their parents are, so I go back to being grumpy.

You not "avin it" alters the fact not a jot. Just yesterday I saw a group ranging from about 6 yrs to about 14 all playing on a raft on the river. No adult that I saw.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Covering your school exercise books in brown paper

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Most kids still do a lot of this stuff. I think it is a lot to do with where you live. For example in Brighton you don't see that many 8-16 yr olds playing out except on Saturday's on the high street because their parents all moved out to the suburbs or Shoreham or wherever when they bought houses. Take a look along the beach next day you are there on a normal day, very few groups that age group at all.

Where I live, in the leafy suburbs on the edge of the Thames, all day long I see groups of 8-16 yr olds going down to the tyre swing on the river, kicking footballs around, playing cricket with sticks, frisbee in the park, rooting around by the rivers and fields and on days like this if I'm on the towpath I am passed by groups of kids on bikes all the time with backpacks and cheap fishing nets out for the day.

It's a city Vs suburbs/countryside thang baby.

City or suburbs I bet you dont see them in the local paper shop buying 10 Players No 6 or No 10 or Sovereign or if you had nicked enough money out of your mums purse maybe 20 JPS or Slim Kings if you had rich parents you could get 20 Sobraine cocktails and walk around looking hard with a mauve fag with a gold filter in your mouth.

 

[Nibble]

City or suburbs I bet you dont see them in the local paper shop buying 10 Players No 6 or No 10 or Sovereign or if you had nicked enough money out of your mums purse maybe 20 JPS or Slim Kings if you had rich parents you could get 20 Sobraine cocktails and walk around looking hard with a mauve fag with a gold filter in your mouth.

Nice. Group of kids ranging from about 10 - 14 hanging out by the river bank, at least 2 of them smoking. No idea where they got them from!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

am I the only ****er who did a paper round before school

and standing outside a tele shop on a saturday morning to Watch the banana splits in colour

 

[BensGrandad]

Going down to the greengrocers and picking up beetroot as it finished cooking for Mondays cold meat dinner and a lemonade bottle of draught vinegar.

Monday dinner cold left over roast from Sunday beetroot, pickled onions and bubble.

 

[BensGrandad]

am I the only ****er who did a paper round before school

No I had many but got sacked from each for reading the papers sports pages and taking too long to do the round.

 

[smillie's garden]

Having to ask permission from Mum to ring a friend; getting moaned at for talking for more than 45 seconds.

 

[5mins-from-amex]

Being told to go and get coal from the coal shed.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

using an outdoor toilet

 

[BensGrandad]

ABC Minors club at The Plaza o a Saturday morning.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Standing outside the tele shop watching the results on a Saturday when made to go shopping.

am I the only ****er who did a paper round before school

and standing outside a tele shop on a saturday morning to Watch the banana splits in colour

 

[Nibble]

I do remember being told on high days and holidays to be out of the house at 10 and "don't wanna see you back before dinner". I think my mother may have been a prostitute.