8 thoughts on “Simpler times, simpler toys, better imagination.”
i have fought many wars with weapons just like that. i won a few and lost a few. good times, when kids would play outside all day and come home with bloody noses and skinned knees. momma would patch me up before supper.
kids would end up in physical therapy now playing like we use to. and their parents would be looking for a lawyer and someone to sue. and people wonder why kids and adolescents are such pussy’s now.
kick their asses out of the house, lock the door and don’t let them back in until sundown. sunshine, bicycles and dirt never hurt anyone.
Our poorly funded band-of-brothers utilized many, many offerings from the Coniferous Replica Armory. And as “scout” opines, if kids these days spent more time in such pursuits, they’d be better suited to life in the real world now.
We preferred the “unexploded” hand grenades, but we had to climb the tree to get them…
I remember as a kid, I dug a foxhole in the field behind our house…came home from school and the farmer had plowed it over. I couldn’t even find a trace of it!
HAH! When I was a kid I had a 2 by 4 with a nail for a trigger. Killed many men. My cousin, Mike, took me down with a similar 2 by 4 upside the head. Good times!
I miss those days. Mostly sad because my kids will never have a clue
Cow patty land mines…
‘Nuff said.
modern weaponry [50’s’ included the squirt gun
these days you very very rarely hear the voices of kids outside playing or see them bike riding
no wonder they cannot pass physical for armed services
so many are literal jelly bellies
i have fought many wars with weapons just like that. i won a few and lost a few. good times, when kids would play outside all day and come home with bloody noses and skinned knees. momma would patch me up before supper.
kids would end up in physical therapy now playing like we use to. and their parents would be looking for a lawyer and someone to sue. and people wonder why kids and adolescents are such pussy’s now.
kick their asses out of the house, lock the door and don’t let them back in until sundown. sunshine, bicycles and dirt never hurt anyone.
Our poorly funded band-of-brothers utilized many, many offerings from the Coniferous Replica Armory. And as “scout” opines, if kids these days spent more time in such pursuits, they’d be better suited to life in the real world now.
We preferred the “unexploded” hand grenades, but we had to climb the tree to get them…
I remember as a kid, I dug a foxhole in the field behind our house…came home from school and the farmer had plowed it over. I couldn’t even find a trace of it!
HAH! When I was a kid I had a 2 by 4 with a nail for a trigger. Killed many men. My cousin, Mike, took me down with a similar 2 by 4 upside the head. Good times!
I miss those days. Mostly sad because my kids will never have a clue
Cow patty land mines…
‘Nuff said.
modern weaponry [50’s’ included the squirt gun
these days you very very rarely hear the voices of kids outside playing or see them bike riding
no wonder they cannot pass physical for armed services
so many are literal jelly bellies