Simple exciting things when we were kids

Cracker Jacks.

Originally posted by divegeester (OP)
Hiding in camps with friends in a hay-bail store

When the dinosaur drops out of the cereal box into your bowl

Those early in life kisses from a special person of the opposite sex

Playing Spin the Bottle during the ages of 10 to 12 with pretty girls in our neighborhood.
Tommy liked Diana the best while my own puppy love favorite was Patty.
Often I'd walk her home from school taking the longest way on those now distant
yet still memorable summer afternoons of my youth.

Note: Outstanding idea for an RHP General Forum thread. Thanks.

Going around the neighborhood with a little red wagon collecting pop bottles to turn in at 2 or 3 cents apiece and getting candy bars.
The big ones were worth a nickle, that was like striking gold.

Delivering 60 newspapers before sunrise seven days a week (not brilliant). Saving up (tedious). Buying LPs (brilliant).

Looking at all the neat things you could buy in the back of comic books if you sold Grit.

Lucky Bags

Looking through stacks of old Playboy magazines when every issue still had the white fuzzy bunny guy on the cover.
Stag, Hollywood Confidential, and True magazines.

Having milk delivered to our porch in glass bottles.

Mowing neighbors' lawns until I had enough money to buy the next issue of Mad magazine ("what, me worry?"😉.

Originally posted by FMF
Digging a "tunnel" at the end of the garden ( a hole in the ground with some plywood laid over it which was then covered in soil).

I remember doing the same over some wasteland.
It was quite deep dug into a clay bank (2 metres) with no supports.
It was an on-going project over many years.

Play Hide and Seek on summer nights.

Build Snow Forts during the winter months.

Read children's library books after dinner before falling asleep.

Draw pictures of our home and family with crayons.

Dream dreams of faraway places.

Cold damp mornings acting like we had a cigarette in our hand and pretending the frost on our breath was smoke.
Arguing in the third grade about what kind of cigarette we were going to smoke when we grew up after watching TV commercials from the age of 2.
Getting your weight and fortune on a penny scale.
Going to the five and dime and getting a 10 cent sack of chocolate stars.

Originally posted by FishHead111
Arguing in the third grade about what kind of cigarette we were going to smoke

You a brotha from Detroit, uh? I hear you, G.

*bro fist*

During the first three grades of elementary school walking with my mother at three o'clock on Thursday afternoons
to our local library's downstairs children's section to listen to the assistant librarian read all kinds of wonderful stories.
Maybe it was during those impressionable years in New England that I subliminally met child anon and his Mum.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Outstanding idea for an RHP General Forum thread. Thanks.

Thank you.