View Full Version : 'Awhh, those were the days' - childhood memories
plowsie
09-04-09, 07:18 AM
Just on the bus to work. For some reason, today I remembered some of the dumb **** we used to do.
'Bus top racing' - only available in double deckers, start at the back seat get to the stairs and make it back and sat down on the back seat.
'Water balloons' - didn't last long, I hit the front window of the bus and got into some serious trouble (yes, it was dumb, I know that now).
'The ruck' - not like a normal ruck, only available on the bottom back seat, use the structure of the bus to help you crush your companions insides at the other side. Strong legs were beneficial.
I look back now and think, little tossers lol.
So, post some of the weird and wonderful things you used to do as a kid and wouldn't consider doing now.
the_lone_wolf
09-04-09, 07:26 AM
i wasn't involved but on the last day of term in year 8/9 i think some kids managed to smuggle a high jump pole onto the bus and throw it out of the skylight type roof openings while we were moving, thankfully a rural area with no traffic but bloody stupid:eek:
The there's the chip in my front tooth i got while playing "pass the punch" - I wasn't expecting the punch to get passed from behind while leaning over by bag so ended up going face first into the guard rail in front:rolleyes:
Themn the usual eggs+flour at the end of term, i generally used to walk home that day cause much like airport security cheacking every bag doesn't seem to stop them:mrgreen:
plowsie
09-04-09, 07:36 AM
i wasn't involved but on the last day of term in year 8/9 i think some kids managed to smuggle a high jump pole onto the bus and throw it out of the skylight type roof openings while we were moving, thankfully a rural area with no traffic but bloody stupid:eek:
The there's the chip in my front tooth i got while playing "pass the punch" - I wasn't expecting the punch to get passed from behind while leaning over by bag so ended up going face first into the guard rail in front:rolleyes:
Themn the usual eggs+flour at the end of term, i generally used to walk home that day cause much like airport security cheacking every bag doesn't seem to stop them:mrgreen:
Reminded me of two more, one of them bus related again :shock:
'Rip the trim and hang it out the window' - Two kids got suspended for that :lol:
'French Boxing' - Punch the person that challenges you goes second, hammer them in the choice of arm, they then hit you back, the person to withdraw first obviously loses. I once saw it go to tears of pain.
the_lone_wolf
09-04-09, 07:38 AM
'Rip the trim and hang it out the window' - Two kids got suspended for that :lol:
cassette tapes were a favourite on our buses, wasn't me that got involved in that though:cool:
plowsie
09-04-09, 07:40 AM
Haha
MiniMatt
09-04-09, 07:41 AM
We used to slap those little tomato ketchup sachets on the side of passing busses - I think somehow we'd gotten it in our mind that the driver would mistake ketchup for blood and think they've taken out a cyclist...... In hindsight, trying to make someone think they've killed someone is.... umm, that's actually pretty sick :( As it is I have no doubt all our victims thought was "feckers have ketchup bombed me again".
Either way, highly childish.
But then we were children.
plowsie
09-04-09, 07:51 AM
Either way, highly childish.
But then we were children.
Exactly my point, you look back and used think yeah we'll do that cos it's funny.
It's actually so bloody stupid :lol:
Something simple like hanging something out the windows could've caused an accident. Water balloon at the bus driver, say no more :lol:.
Anyway, like I say, doesn't have to be bus or school related, can be absolutely anything...
Like - I used to think it was funny to go and rugby tackle peoples snowmen when it had snowed. Or, bend over behind someone and let someone else push that person over me...Oh wait, I did that at the Peaks Rideout with DavePreston to Seggons :lol:
um, I paid 35p once to get ot my house when really it should have been 50p.
Does that count?
plowsie
09-04-09, 08:01 AM
um, I paid 35p once to get ot my house when really it should have been 50p.
Does that count?
It may do if it made some sense.
tigersaw
09-04-09, 08:09 AM
Keeping people on beyond their stop, taking their bag off the bus before their stop, waving it at them through the window then leaving it on the pavement, or worse in the gutter.
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So, post some of the weird and wonderful things you used to do as a kid and wouldn't consider doing now.
sh!t in my pants
the_lone_wolf
09-04-09, 08:31 AM
Keeping people on beyond their stop, taking their bag off the bus before their stop, waving it at them through the window then leaving it on the pavement...
=D>=D>=D>
Does anyone else remember the "Sooty Stars" breakfast cereal?
I was a very naughty little boy, so no comment..... :lol:
sh!t in my pants
I've heard those days are coming back around for some of you older members???? :smt120 :lol:
Old man nappies FTL!!!!
It may do if it made some sense.
Think he means he paid half fare instead of full fare.
Maybe.
Ah, memories...
Used to have this game me and my mate played in the car during heavy motorway traffic heading to larp events... If the speed dropped below 20mph we'd slap and hit each other until it sped up again...
... and this was only a few years ago.
:shock:
I was always a good girl...O:) hehe..
I can remember once a load of lads in my village made a hugee bolder of snow and left it on one side of the road..was there for at least a week..Funny at the time, but actually pretty dangerous.!
Edit - Oh and something i saw, my dad was always a strict man, and 'knew who the naughty teenagers' where..so one night he was drunk, and joined in throwing stones at cars with these teenagers :s !
I was a very naughty little boy, so no comment..... :lol:
me too!! this thread could turn into a confessionary if i was to tell all....
keep an eye out for my book
Exactly, in fact, im now thinking what a bad little boy I actually was.
One of the more modest tales is when we were playing by a railway crossing, only to have an engineer grab us, stop the next train, put us in the cab to the local station, where we sat for 2 hours for the police to pick us up n take us home :lol:
Very modest, and all your getting from me :lol:
Mr Speirs
09-04-09, 10:19 AM
Emptying the sugar pots and replacing them with Salt. Honestly the worst thing I ever tasted was Corn Flakes and Salt.
Breaking into the canteen at night and stealing big boxes of chocolate.
Running onto the 9th hole of the local golf course and putting every ball hit into the sand.
Im sure there will be more but those are some of the sedate stuff.
At school I was always known as the kid that did some of the naughtiest stuff along with the other lads but I never ever got caught. :) Is a record I still hold today :)
Ceri JC
09-04-09, 11:41 AM
The double decker bus bit reminds me of a game we used to play on the way to school. Sit in the front left hand side seats and push your face against the glass, with your eyes open. Don't move/blink when one of the numerous branches jutting out from the trees at the roadside smashes into the glass at 45mph. First one to flinch loses. We only stopped playing when we ended up getting so good at it that no one ever flinched.
In hindsight, spectacularly stupid and it's lucky no one got glass in their face, but that's childhood for you. :)
still trying to think of something suitable that wont get me in trouble...
im sure i did some funny/wacky things as a nipper. just cant think of anything that doesnt involve a) arson b) vandalism c) stealing/lifting d) running from the law e) violence...
Ceri JC
09-04-09, 11:57 AM
We used to slap those little tomato ketchup sachets on the side of passing busses - I think somehow we'd gotten it in our mind that the driver would mistake ketchup for blood and think they've taken out a cyclist...... In hindsight, trying to make someone think they've killed someone is.... umm, that's actually pretty sick :( As it is I have no doubt all our victims thought was "feckers have ketchup bombed me again".
Either way, highly childish.
But then we were children.
A variant on this that we did was to take sachets of tartare sauce/mayo, puncture them with a pin and discretely "fire" the contents into the lap of a friend/enemy, under the table. Even if they didn't notice immediately upon landing, after a minute it'd soak through and they would invariably stand up, hand and lap covered in the stuff, which would be clearly highlighted on the black school uniforms. From a distance it looked horribly realistic and the look of confusion/horror on the victims' face was priceless. We did it infrequently enough that no one ever got to know what it was/who was doing it. :cool:
Jamiebridges123
09-04-09, 12:34 PM
Oh, the childhood memories. Being beaten up, having like 4 friends... breaking windows at school..
Also stealing a Twix bar from the co-op and not getting caught. First and last thing I've ever/will ever steal that was! Was only about 11 at the time, not proud when I look back.
Never really done any sorts of practical jokes, just had a general laugh, as you do. :)
dizzyblonde
09-04-09, 12:36 PM
grass sledging on cardboard. Was an absolute hoot when we were kids, but my god it didn't half give you grass burns:smt101 Its the best thing in the world, but I wouldn't do it now.....
....well ok then if I found a hill steep enough I might, after all I went sledging in the snow for the first time in about 15 years.
The grass sledging got taken over by a motorcross bike later on, when we were a bit older, and the lads in the group perferred to do acrobatics down in the field at the bottom of our street on iy, the days of no helmets when it wasn;t so frowned upon. Shame the bike in question got its front wheel down a grass covered ditch. Was hilarious seeing two teens with their torsos stuck underground and their legs waving around...shouting hlep!
vardypeeps
09-04-09, 12:38 PM
One of the last weeks at school there was a large set of lockers (around 50 all together). We turned them upside down so the locks where on the other side but that was boring so we turned them around too so the doors where facing the wall.
Pulled open the lift doors (when it was on the right floor) and threw peoples bags in when they wern't looking hehe good times!
Launching firework rockets out of a length of scaffolding on our shoulders.
vardypeeps
09-04-09, 12:42 PM
The double decker bus bit reminds me of a game we used to play on the way to school. Sit in the front left hand side seats and push your face against the glass, with your eyes open. Don't move/blink when one of the numerous branches jutting out from the trees at the roadside smashes into the glass at 45mph. First one to flinch loses. We only stopped playing when we ended up getting so good at it that no one ever flinched.
In hindsight, spectacularly stupid and it's lucky no one got glass in their face, but that's childhood for you. :)
Would have been more difficult if you had your head sticking out of the window and the trees where hitting you in the face !
Dicky Ticker
09-04-09, 12:45 PM
Squirting the Jiffy Lemon thingys up the space between the back and sitting part of the seat on to the girls bums. Having a crafty fag with the back window of the bus open,our bus looked like it was on fire with about a dozen of us in the back seat.
Sticking a bit of chewing gum on the stop bell as you got off----happy innocent days
vardypeeps
09-04-09, 12:47 PM
Squirting the Jiffy Lemon thingys up the space between the back and sitting part of the seat on to the girls bums. Having a crafty fag with the back window of the bus open,our bus looked like it was on fire with about a dozen of us in the back seat.
Sticking a bit of chewing gum on the stop bell as you got off----happy innocent days
So that was you with that chewing gum lol! :p
Milky Bar Kid
09-04-09, 12:55 PM
We played many pranks in our 6th Yr.....left sardines in our lockers when we handed keys back in, water ballooned the teachers.....egg and flour.....etc etc...
One of the boys hit me so hard on the head with an egg that I was bleeding and had to get it glued!
See we just trapped people IN the lift and wouldn't let them out :lol:
My bag got raided on the last day of school while we were in assembly. I came back and hit the roof as the teachers went through it as I was "a target" and "considered a ring leader"
That showed me not 1 teacher paid any real attention as I was the lad that all the girls, and most the blokes, hated, as I was gobby and had my own way of thinking......
Who's going to follow me exactly??? :lol:
(OK so the bad was loaded with eggs, flour, water pistols etc, but hey it was the last day of school ever.......)
dizzyblonde
09-04-09, 12:59 PM
We played many pranks in our 6th Yr.....left sardines in our lockers when we handed keys back in, !
ahhh now see we had a 'pet mould' in one of the spare lockers.
It started out as a cup that had been left with probably some tea or coffee or something in it. Somebody decided that they'd start feeding it...and it grew..it was disgusting and only the brave opened the locker door to feed t, but very funny at the time!
I can remember white dog poo, klondike Pete,s golden nuggets, marathon bars,nutty bars, those corrugated plastic pipe thing,s usually fluroscent green or orange, that you kinda swung round your head and they whistled as you swung em, clackers, capn pugwash, the woodentops, also, unfortunately, I was something of a teenage arsonist, my specialty being river and stream banks, happy days ;)
Milky Bar Kid
09-04-09, 01:07 PM
ahhh now see we had a 'pet mould' in one of the spare lockers.
It started out as a cup that had been left with probably some tea or coffee or something in it. Somebody decided that they'd start feeding it...and it grew..it was disgusting and only the brave opened the locker door to feed t, but very funny at the time!
We had one of them when I was at Uni! Classic!
tigersaw
09-04-09, 01:09 PM
Most funny thing I ever did, and I still laugh with tears in my eyes over 30 years later, was get into school early one day and took the hinge pins out of the grand piano in the main hall.
Imagine assembly before 1500 kids as the head strolls in, the music teacher lifts the lid to begin the hymn and the whole lid falls from the piano, crashes off the stage and scatters two rows of first formers below.
plowsie
09-04-09, 01:10 PM
Most funny thing I ever did, and I still laugh with tears in my eyes over 30 years later, was get into school early one day and took the hinge pins out of the grand piano in the main hall.
Imagine assembly before 1500 kids as the head strolls in, the music teacher lifts the lid to begin the hymn and the whole lid falls from the piano, crashes off the stage and scatters two rows of first formers below.
That has me in stitches lolllllll :lol:
Does anyone else remember the "Sooty Stars" breakfast cereal? obvuiosly not :confused:
We used to slap those little tomato ketchup sachets on the side of passing busses -.
throwinging the girkins from your McDonalds burgers at the windoe, and seeing whose would fall first, who evers stayed on the longest won
OMG the memories
'Water balloons' - didn't last long, I hit the front window of the bus and got into some serious trouble (yes, it was dumb, I know that now).
We used to fill crisp packets up and lob them out the windows, got one in a sunroof once.
'The ruck' - not like a normal ruck, only available on the bottom back seat, use the structure of the bus to help you crush your companions insides at the other side. Strong legs were beneficial.
Once did this and I was crushed against a window......would you bloody believe it the window seals popped and wthe window fell out......I nearlly followed.
So so so many memories... some of them that won't land me in hot water for posting on the .Org... and these I probably can't go into too much detail with...
- Taking a GasGas around an indoor skate park (with permission) and creating a new "skylight" off the vert ramp.
- The numerous rope slides we built from various trees - the best one being a good 50ft up at the start point, comprising 2 ropes joined together, and gas mains pipework so you didn't burn your hands on the way down.
- Messing about in fields with old road bikes.
- Riding my BMX on the roof of the school, with one of the lads daring me to jump from the canteen roof. Flat to flat must of been 25ft vertically easily. Both tyres exploded when the contacted the floor.
- Related to one of mine above, tarzans in the local park, with insane (looking back) drops. One of which may of involved a fire.
- Road Rash - I won't say more on that, but by god it was funny.
- College, the computer network, almost getting my mate kicked out of college.
- Impending exam, and related to the above, sprinker system. :lol:
There's a lot of stuff that I used to get up to that I probably wouldn't do these days. Might be tempted to re-live some of them though. :D
dizzyblonde
09-04-09, 06:14 PM
speaking of school buses, for some odd reason when ours (double deckers)used to pull into the bus station, we all used to cram to the front and when I mean cram, I mean cram. All the top deck used to surge and surf down the the bottom and everyone used to pack in like sardines....even had crowd surfers!:smt108
I remember one day, the lads smoking at the back up the top, were sat against the back side window, went round a corner and it fell out, luckily nobody with it, so the rest of the journey proceeded with them all hanging out of it waving.
I remember in Science once, Juliet C forgot to plug the rubber hose to the gas tap, and promptly went to light it and got her own personal flame thrower:smt044
I remember in Science once, Juliet C forgot to plug the rubber hose to the gas tap, and promptly went to light it and got her own personal flame thrower:smt044
OOO, science lessons, there's another few...
- Fork, electrical socket. Need I say more?
- "The show that never ends" - anyone that went to the same school as me would know what that means.
- Pen battles. Two people sit opposite each other, each person holds a pen into the others hand (back of the hand was favoured). Push down as hard as possible, until one person quits.
- various chemical/electrical pranks.
And one from outside of school:
- sh!t river jumping. Near where I lived there was a stream, pretty wide in places, that at certain times of year was simply a brown goo oozing slowly down the field. It literally looked like faeces. Accidentally stepping in it resulted in some funny & childish noises. The deal was to see how far you could jump across, without "sh!tting yourself."
tigersaw
09-04-09, 07:14 PM
ooooh science.... tipping a bottle of mercury into someones blazer pocket, bunsen burners connected to water taps, pinching magnesium ribbon to play with at dinner time, girls getting sick when having to disect a locust, sunlight and magnifying glasses,
keith_d
09-04-09, 07:15 PM
Jumping off the back of Routemasters as they slowed down for the stop. This started off fairly sensible, but eventually we were jumping off at about 20mph. Pretty dangerous, but as kids we didn't care.
Best fun was one time when the conductor jumped off to get some cigarettes. We waited about 5 minutes then rang the bell. It was about two stops before one of the grown ups went round to the driver and grassed us up. We had to walk the rest of the way home, but it was worth it.
Another classic, eggs & cars. Then being chased across the field by someone driving a landrover. :D
A variant of that, picking berries off the trees to throw at cars etc. When the next vehicle we see is a bike. My best mate looked at me, I looked at him. It had to be done.
I'm not sure who's berry hit where, but one of us hit him on the front of the visor, and these berries were the type that splattered.
The rider hit the brakes & we legged it up the nearby path.
A few minutes went by & we bravely walked back to where we were before. Suddenly this bike comes flying out of a side road, at high revs. So we legged it again. The biker decided to try & follow us. His problem was that the grass of the side of the path was wet, and he came off. :( But it meant we got away. :)
keith_d
09-04-09, 07:31 PM
Don't get me started on chemistry lessions - they were great fun.
For one term we had a very unreliable supply teacher, Mr "Flakey" Flack and we sabotaged a several of his classes.
First up was phenolpthalein in his test tubes when he was doing a 'acids and bases' demo. We very generously left him another set of demo sized test-tubes in the cupboard - spiked with a different indicator (maybe methylene blue).
As luck would have it we were doing organic analysis at the back of the lab the following week too, and that weeks compound was succinic acid. Heat this and you get succinic anhydride fumes which make people cough. Predictably, his class was beset by dreadful coughing attacks at regular intervals.
Then there was the time we filled a lab with chlorine - so much chlorine the air looked distinctly green. We had to leave that one overnight to clear (oops).
keith_d
09-04-09, 07:38 PM
ahhh now see we had a 'pet mould' in one of the spare lockers.
It started out as a cup that had been left with probably some tea or coffee or something in it. Somebody decided that they'd start feeding it...and it grew..it was disgusting and only the brave opened the locker door to feed t, but very funny at the time!
Now that reminds me....
I was in the habit of slamming my locker open with a bang. So for a prank some people cultivated a jug of 'pet mould' until it was really rank then tied it inside my locker door. Fortunately, (for me) one of the teachers came into our block looking for missing books and flicked each locker open in turn. So he ended up wearing a pint of revolting slops meant for me. :D
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