Fun Twitter thread on the crap we did as kids...

[Nevilledog]

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Dan Duvall
@lazerdoov
So sad that kids today spend so much time online. When we were kids we were always outside throwing rocks at one another, smoking, lighting small fires, stealing car hood ornaments, shoplifting, trying drugs... one time I drank gasoline.
8:55 AM · Mar 10, 2022

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Gasoline? Eeew

My father told me to use it to get enamel paint off my hands. Oh hell it stank but it did get the paint off compleatly.

My hands smelled like gas for 2 days tho.
Even though I washed
them with soap and water every chance I got.

How in the hell does someone still be alive after drinking gasoline?

[dweller]

3. Surely someone mentioned

running in the contrail behind the mosquito truck ?
😐

I’m surprised we survived childhood


✌🏻

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I knew a kid that did that.

He’s pretty messed up still.

[a kennedy]

5. Our little band of bandits used to ring doorbells and run......🤣 😂 🤣

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

6. We lived in a housing tract in Cupertino, CA where every house had at least 9 apricot trees

plus there was a huge apricot orchard close by, so we had apricot fights.

One time our "posse" of about 6 kids wandered into the apricot orchard and went further into it than we ever did before and after an hour or so of going in different directions, we were completely lost.

We were just kids so seeing the Sun slowly going down didn't help us much.

Around sunset a group of parents came looking for us shouting "Hey kids, where are you?"

We also played daily on a railroad trestle (bridge) and one time a train came by while we were underneath......(Thank God no one was hurt)

[hunter]

9. We used to play on the railroad trestles.

Once I was babysitting my little brother, who was about five or six, and we were up in the trestles as a train came over. It was awesome!

Of course my little brother told my mom a few days later and I was toast.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. nagware got me . twas fun. homemade scooters . skate boards with ceramic wheels . wooden

fruit boxes and wheels for go carts . fun.

[Boomerproud]

8. Catching fireflies in a jar. Playing hide n seek with the fire

Hydrant being "home". Waiting for the ice cream truck to come down the street. Parents sitting on their lawn chairs watching all of us play on summer evenings. We had no idea how secure we felt.