In Flanders in the flat lands, where I was born, we used to play football but most of all during summertime to have biking contests driving around the block of houses for 30 or 50 times. It was always the same guy, 5 years older than all of the twenty of us merely 12 years old, who won the race and got the kisses from the girls. So stupid girls. There was no internet no playstation. We had fun.
we played handball, dodgeball, stickball, rode bikes all day, came home muddy, sometimes bloody, or wet after falling into creeks or ponds trying to grab minnows, wandered the woods, put quarters on tracks for passing trains to flatten. no cells. home safe every time. this would sound unthinkable to today's young i'm sure. mikeL
Far too many cars now to play football or cricket in a side street as we did. When I started work every car had five people in it. They would share fuel costs . 20 years later they didn't want to go out of their way to pick anyone up.
In Flanders in the flat lands, where I was born, we used to play football but most of all during summertime to have biking contests driving around the block of houses for 30 or 50 times. It was always the same guy, 5 years older than all of the twenty of us merely 12 years old, who won the race and got the kisses from the girls. So stupid girls. There was no internet no playstation. We had fun.
ReplyDeletewe played handball, dodgeball, stickball, rode bikes all day, came home muddy, sometimes bloody, or wet after falling into creeks or ponds trying to grab minnows, wandered the woods, put quarters on tracks for passing trains to flatten. no cells. home safe every time.
ReplyDeletethis would sound unthinkable to today's young i'm sure.
mikeL
Far too many cars now to play football or cricket in a side street as we did. When I started work every car had five people in it. They would share fuel costs . 20 years later they didn't want to go out of their way
ReplyDeleteto pick anyone up.