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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 11, 2016 9:52:24 GMT -5
How about cranking your arm up and down trying to get the semi - truck drivers to blow them big shinny horns! .... and trains.
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 11, 2016 10:32:40 GMT -5
Did everyone forget spin the bottle! I never played spin the bottle!
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Post by Pat on Nov 11, 2016 11:18:31 GMT -5
Did everyone forget spin the bottle! I never played spin the bottle! I never did either!
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gemfeller
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 11, 2016 11:54:11 GMT -5
1dave, that sycamore whistle is exactly like the willow whistles my Grandma taught me to make. I made dozens of them when I was a kid and if I could find a bunch of willows I think I could still make one today. I'd forgotten all about that...
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Post by Pat on Nov 11, 2016 12:06:37 GMT -5
Husband made bubble blowers from the reeds from thistle stems and made them for our kids. Made great bubble blowers. He's not sure that was the material; could have been reeds from down at Cranberry Creek.
He also made little boats consisting of a maple leaf. Very neat little boats!
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 11, 2016 12:30:29 GMT -5
How about cranking your arm up and down trying to get the semi - truck drivers to blow them big shinny horns! Wife and I just seen this the other day.. We were in traffic behind a school bus full of kids-they would see a semi and crack the arm up and down.."Most would blow the horn".. Kind of cool...
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Post by NDK on Nov 11, 2016 12:47:12 GMT -5
Yup. I drive truck from the warehouse to the mill, about 3 miles each way through town. Every now and then you get kids looking for you to toot at them. Lol sure is fun seeing their smiles when you blast that horn at them.
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Post by wannabee on Nov 11, 2016 13:32:59 GMT -5
I never played spin the bottle! I never did either! Hmm, methinks they doth protest too much!
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Post by Pat on Nov 11, 2016 14:58:57 GMT -5
Hmm, methinks they doth protest too much! No, not protesting. More particular about who I kissed
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Post by spiceman on Nov 11, 2016 21:34:12 GMT -5
Learning how to pop a leaf. Take one hand and make a O shape. Put the leaf over top the hole. With the other hand slap down on the leaf. If done right...the leaf will POP. Loud
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Post by quartz on Nov 12, 2016 0:56:02 GMT -5
I grew up on the edge of a town so small the sign identifying it was on either side of the same post. Probably Christmas vacation time from school, it was generally pretty cold. I could go up to the post office and if I agreed to sit quietly in the office part of the building, I could watch the postmaster sort the days mail into the ~sixty combination boxes accessed from the other side of the wall. After the sort was done, he would pour us each a nice cup of hot chocolate and we would spend some time just talking and enjoying the time. Great memories.
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Post by spiceman on Nov 12, 2016 1:41:37 GMT -5
That sounds cool.
Bellbrook (my home town) its small but not that small. But, if somebody farts the whole town knows. :o
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Post by 1dave on Nov 12, 2016 11:52:31 GMT -5
Walking to school in Texas. Bundled up with the heaviest coat I own in the morning, dragging it home in the dirt on the way back home, only because I finally learned I would need it the next day.
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Post by garock on Nov 13, 2016 10:11:29 GMT -5
rockjunquie ! Back in 1970 and 1971 while working at a gas station, we also sold tires, Double Cola's and all sorts of Nehi flavored drinks in 16 oz size with 8 bottles per carton for 69 cents. I reckon we sold hundreds of cases a week. Truck delivered 2 a week with a full load. Sometimes I wonder why I did not have nightmares from handling so many empty bottles ! Gas was 31 cents a gallon at this station !
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Post by 1dave on Nov 13, 2016 10:20:37 GMT -5
My FIRST DAY at Kindergarten.
A delightful new smell of oil soaked sawdust. A place totally different from home. Where is Mom? So this is a bathroom? Laying in a towel with all the other kids taking a nap. Do I have to go back?
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Post by 1dave on Nov 14, 2016 14:41:02 GMT -5
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 14, 2016 15:17:51 GMT -5
I have a paper airplane design I haven't seen duplicated in recent years. I remember recess time in grade school when the air was full of 'em, secretly made during boring classes. I think I could still make one if I put my mind to it. But my teachers were strict and I'd have been visiting the Principal's office if I'd tried to fly them out of a classroom window. Man, how we lived for recess!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 16:33:00 GMT -5
Hmm, methinks they doth protest too much! No, not protesting. More particular about who I kissed What is the bottle for? Just get tot he kissing already! Rotf
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 16:34:57 GMT -5
How about cranking your arm up and down trying to get the semi - truck drivers to blow them big shinny horns! Did that on field trips with kidlet 10-15 years ago. I got in trouble. Aside from the driver & teacher I was the only adult on the bus!!!
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 14, 2016 16:48:43 GMT -5
How about cranking your arm up and down trying to get the semi - truck drivers to blow them big shinny horns! Did that on field trips with kidlet 10-15 years ago. I got in trouble. Aside from the driver & teacher I was the only adult on the bus!!! My son had parent teacher swap at the high school. It was awesome! I had so much fun! Being back in school made me a delinquent again. I got in trouble in study hall for cutting up, I got caught smoking in the girl's room and I got an A for my son on a German quiz.
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