BYC Café

[Alaskan]

hate English

stupid le instead of el just doesn't make sense

 

[Treerooted]

huh..... so is this played all over the US? Or only in certain regions?

Soooo. where were you when you learned to play it?

Did all of y'all play marbels?

There were four squares painted at my elementary school...but I don't ever remember playing. Maybe some kids did, I don't know. I never learned the game myself, or at least I don't remember learning it. My class always played big games together; soccer, wallball, various tags, even make believe games.

Never played marbles.

 

[Alaskan]

There were four squares painted at my elementary school...but I don't ever remember playing. Maybe some kids did, I don't know. I never learned the game myself, or at least I don't remember learning it. My class always played big games together; soccer, wallball, various tags, even make believe games.

Never played marbles.

is wallball dodge ball?

 

[Treerooted]

hate English

stupid le instead of el just doesn't make sense

Ok, so it took me a moment to figure that sentence out...I thought you were infusing English, French and Spanish for a moment

 

[Alaskan]

Ok, so it took me a moment to figure that sentence out...I thought you were infusing English, French and Spanish for a moment

don't get me started on the spelling of French words



By the way...Spouse said that as a kid, 4 square was played up near Dallas, Texas....

Dunno...maybe I just didn't play it much, and that is why I don't remember.

 

[Treerooted]

is wallball dodge ball?

No, but we played that too.

The outside of our gym was a very tall brickwall, so we'd play different games involving a tennis ball and the wall, like you throw it against the wall and the next person has to catch it in one bounce.

Big day was when the janitor was up there and tossed down all the forsaken tennis balls

 

[Alaskan]

but then....Dallas is a barfy town. I grew up in Galveston, Houston, and the hill country

 

[Alaskan]

Big day was when the janitor was up there and tossed down all the forsaken tennis balls

That was one of the reasons I was always illegally climbing onto the top of the school, to collect the jillion balls up there.

 

[Treerooted]

Dunno...maybe I just didn't play it much, and that is why I don't remember.

Same here, a lot just depends on what you and your friends happen to do on recess. Could have been happening all around you.

I do think I have this vague memory of either watching some kids play or trying it myself. But ether way, it did not make it into our regular recess routine.

 

[Treerooted]

So I just had to do a google walk by of my old elementary school. That wall doesn't exist anymore because they've doubled the size of the school with an additional two story section. I'm sure everything would look so different inside...

I am unable to confirm the existence of any painted four squares.