rules you had as a kid (1 Viewer)

[Bob Loblaw]

On your feet, lose your seat!

 

[BobbyLayne]

Leave dad alone.

Related: Put the ice pack back in the freezer when you're done with it.

Pretty sure none of us were ever put in timeout or told to go think about what we did wrong.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

BB Gun battles in the woods: No aiming for the face.  No crossing the two major roads north and south.  No leaving the woods otherwise.  Only one timeout per person was allowed.

Granted timeouts gave the "dead" man 5 seconds to run, if accepted.  Eventually there were no timeouts.

Oh hellya.  We did this way to often.  Couple of us (not me) took one in/around the eye - but no one lost any eyes/sight.  Just the "all red" white of the eye.  Never forget my buddy pushing a bb out of his eye socket in 5th period class.  

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Saving your seat That's called fives

And a force using pitcher's mound was called pitcher's mound poison

Never heard of either one of these - just called shotgun (first) for the front seat of a car.

Force at pitcher's mound was called "pitchers hand" - usually accompanied by right field "out" that was mentioned earlier.

 

[Zegras11]

No bat loading. 

We played with whiffle ball bats and tennis balls, except dudes started taping up their bats with electrical tape (remained legal) and other materials, an arms race that culminated in one dude cutting open the bottom of the handle and filling the bat with pennies, resulting in automatic home runs in every at bat. The home run contests were pretty epic, but we did ultimately ban the penny-loaded bats in actual game play. 

We played whiffle ball on the cul-de-sac at end of the street.  It made for perfect stadium effect.  The light pole was home plate. One day we took the bat and hit the light pole and the light went on. We were able to do that whenever we wanted after that.

 We would take our baseball cards and randomly pick a lineup. You had to bat using that players L/R and his swing. We all loved being **** McAuliffe.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Anyone else load up on racket balls and see how far you could hit them with a metal bat?  I remember a summer where houses throughout the neighborhood had blue marks in various spots where we didn't clear the house line going up the hill of the cul-de-sac.

 

[SWC]

another rule we had at my buddys house was to pretend the giant stack of nudie mags in his dads closet was not actually there it was some serious jedi stuff it was like these are not the skin mags you are looking for but you know what brohans they totally were take that to the bank bromigos 

 

[Tom Skerritt]

P for K

 

[belljr]

Never heard of either one of these - just called shotgun (first) for the front seat of a car.

Force at pitcher's mound was called "pitchers hand" - usually accompanied by right field "out" that was mentioned earlier.

No not shotgun. Which you can't be indoors when you call it.

I was talking about whomever mentioned when you got up to get something and you had "savies".  We called it fives. You had 5 minutes.

My buddies dad built us a wiffle ball field. It was awesome

 

[grateful zed]

its a bong not a microphone

 

[Beef Ravioli]

Never heard of either one of these - just called shotgun (first) for the front seat of a car.

Force at pitcher's mound was called "pitchers hand" - usually accompanied by right field "out" that was mentioned earlier.

Grew up on the far west side of Cleveland in the 70's and 80's. I find it funny how similar games are played but called different things depending on the region of the country. We had:

Pitcher's mound is poison, ghost runners, we counted 10 Mississippi's as fast as we could with one automatic blitz every four downs, if not enough guys for a football game we played "smear the queer", played outside till it was dark,  built forts in the woods, jumped ramps with no helmets.....those were the days! 

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Grew up on the far west side of Cleveland in the 70's and 80's. I find it funny how similar games are played but called different things depending on the region of the country. We had:

Pitcher's mound is poison, ghost runners, we counted 10 Mississippi's as fast as we could with one automatic blitz every four downs, if not enough guys for a football game we played "smear the queer", played outside toll it was dark,  built forts in the woods, jumped ramps with no helmets.....those were the days! 

Grew up in Dayton, OH.  

- I have heard of using the term poison for pitcher's mound; we definitely used ghost runners (mandatory if using 2 or 3 guy teams)

- Mississippi's were used ...or Steamboats (not as good - too easy to say more quickly)

- When only had 3 guys we played "Pass Interceptor."  Each guy had his own score - rotated between QB/WR/DB.  Two passes in a row got you a 1st down to keep going.  If a TD was scored then both the QB & WR got the point(s).  If in the street it was 2 hand touch below the waist, otherwise tackle.

- Smear the queer was a staple but usually preferred "Pass Interceptor" or a regular game.  

- Usual BB gun games in the nearby woods (lots of woods around ...and limestone pits - pretty awesome).

 

[MikeIke]

Always hide the bodies. 

 

[Rustoleum]

No chip-ins, meaning if you were at bat when a window got broken, the $$ was all on you. Don't recall anyone ever actual breaking a window, but without fail the rule was invoked before the first pitch was thrown.

If simultaneous shotgun calls were made, you had better have included the hand motion of racking a pump action shotgun or your ### was in the back (probably on the hump too).

Oh, and our version was "move your feet, lose your seat."

 

[grateful zed]

never waste a boner.

 

[Andrew74]

Alley in the backyard was a home run. 

Only use rotten tomatoes in tomato fights (there was a big field next to our house). Alternately, if we used dirt clods, none with big rocks. 

 

[netnalp]

Your friends can't use the pool unless one of their parents is here.

You can only have one piece of gum a day, even if you bought it with your own money.

If it's your money, you can buy anything you want. NJ requires a firearm license for a BB gun, so at age 7 or so, I got around it by buying through mail order. I probably could have gotten a shotgun!

Only allowed to shoot what dad designated as being "bad birds".

Stay out of the corn patch!

 

[grateful zed]

1 piece of deer jerky per day.

 

[Lester Burnham]

Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-### or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-### or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in...

Luke: ...the box.