Michigan

[miss_jayne]

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nope, not after i saw another kid bash his face into a bumper....

 

[ConcreteFarms]

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Hahaha... Totally!! ...but we pushed it up a notch for comfort... When I was 18 I moved to downtown Detroit, near New Center, I lived in a house with 4 other guys and that winter we had a huge snowfall (and go figure, the city road commission shut down) basically, LOTS OF SNOW, no one could go anywhere except for a tough walk on foot. The roads started to clear a little after a few brave neighbors attempted to clear our street by hand. When we finally got a worthy car dug out, my roomate brought up an old set of ski's from the basement and bolted them to a ratty old lazy boy recliner. When we started cruising down 2nd street pulling each other in a sliding recliner, all the kids home from school that were making snowmen just stopped and pointed, all their parents from the porch were just laughing and shouting "Crazy white boys!" ... we loved it! Hahaha... Good Times in the D.

 

[miss_jayne]

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Hahaha... Totally!! ...but we pushed it up a notch for comfort... When I was 18 I moved to downtown Detroit, near New Center, I lived in a house with 4 other guys and that winter we had a huge snowfall (and go figure, the city road commission shut down) basically, LOTS OF SNOW, no one could go anywhere except for a tough walk on foot. The roads started to clear a little after a few brave neighbors attempted to clear our street by hand. When we finally got a worthy car dug out, my roomate brought up an old set of ski's from the basement and bolted them to a ratty old lazy boy recliner. When we started cruising down 2nd street pulling each other in a sliding recliner, all the kids home from school that were making snowmen just stopped and pointed, all their parents from the porch were just laughing and shouting "Crazy white boys!" ... we loved it! Hahaha... Good Times in the D.

back in the day in the D....it doesn't get better!

unless you count the fact that we got IN the fountain at Hart Plaza.....

 

[chickflick]

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nope, not after i saw another kid bash his face into a bumper....

In all the years that my brothers and I skitched, I never hurt myself. I was the biggest tomboy ever. Skitching was our way of getting around Chicago! To the mall, church, friends houses...every where. What a blast. Now, if I caught my kids doing it, they would have been in big trouble...lol.

 

[miss_jayne]

i did ride on the hood of a car once...in a wet bathing suit...put it all together....yep, slid right off when we came to a stop. dumb. also road my bike right into a parked car once. pain. pain. pain.

i am giving little bits away here of my 'smarts level' i think....

 

[chickflick]

Oh, I remember hitting a car while riding my bike. The car came out of an alley on my way to school (summer, no skitching) and ran smack into it. Yes, pain, and tore my uniform. Had to go home and change and went right back to school. Parents weren't home, so no one to cry to...it's no good unless someone hears you cry and whine. Never rode on the hood of a car in a wet bathing suit, tho! We all did really dumb things when young. I once jumped out of a two story window in a apartment building that was under construction. One of the workers came back and caught us kids playing. All my brothers ran and I got stuck on the 2nd floor. Only way out was thru that window! There was a huge sand pile under this window, so off I jumped. Too bad the worker caught me just as I landed. My dad just shook his head. The worst thing was when I got my foot caught in the bike spokes....remember that pain?? The worst! Did it more than once. The joys of being young.

 

[miss_jayne]

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oh yes! DEAR LORD! that hurts like all get out and then your leg is bent and you can't get it out.


i must not have outgrown these incidents...

several years ago, i was up north. (Caseville). had been there, oh, about 2 minutes. jumped on the minibike, tore around and then WHAMMO! i flipped TWICE in the air and then BAM! it lands on my leg.

my shoelace got stuck in the back wheel, and flipped the bike. it landed with the kick stand IN my leg. the thing landed on my right leg and was burning me.

all the men came running to 'help'. they kept pulling the shoelace out. over and over. finally, i sat up and yelled, 'DO YOU THINK WE COULD TURN IT OFF????' they kept pulling the lace out only to be sucked up again, while it was burning one leg and puncturing the other. i reached up and did it myself.

broke my hip that day. didn't find out for about 4 years.....NICE! tomboys unite!

 

[chickflick]

Yeah tomboys!! I did everything my brothers did. Played all sports and beat up lots of guys. Of course, they wouldn't fight back too much cuz they knew I had 4 older mean brothers! I had to do it all in a dress! My mom wanted a girl and I was gonna look like a girl. Wonder why all the boys wanted me to play football??? lol They probably got quite a show!

 

[ChickaD]

OK, if we're talking tomboys, I gotta chime in...my major tomboy days were all in Michigan, after all! Like when my mom and older brother brought back huge bullfrogs from across the lake and teasingly told my younger brother and me to put them down our shirts (they were just kidding)...sounded like a GREAT idea, so we tucked in our shirts, and plopped them in! They hopped around like crazy and we laughed ourselves silly. Later we discovered new heights of fun by adding smaller frogs along with a bullfrog and even baby garter snakes, to really keep things moving.
Now that I'm mature and sensible, I only do things like ruin a new bathing suit (RARE occurence!) by sliding over small rocky rapids...

 

[chickflick]

Wow, ChickaD! That's impressive. A girl that didn't go eeeewwww cuz of a frog and even put it down her shirt!! I use to play with snakes all the time. Threw them at my brother's girl friends. Pretty funny.