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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	For Those of Us Born Before 1980
	Date:	10/18/2011 8:51:19 AM

Hound, I remember pick up football games in the snow in a neighbor's yard that was perfectly flat and rectangular and we would play until we froze to death or they chased us off because of the noise. We played pick up basketball at the local playground (still have the scar in my elbow where I knocked one of my friend's teeth out going for a ball....and he was on my team). I rode my bike everywhere, all over town, to friends houses, to movies, to go visit girls, etc. We spent our entire summer sleeping in a cabin we built in the woods. We played bb gun battles (for those with ten pump they were only allowed to pump it 3 times) and no one lost an eye although we did lose a couple of pairs of glasses.

When I wanted to play organized sports my parents said that's fine but how are you going to get to practice?.....I'll ride my bike or walk. They never, ever went to a practice and would have recoiled at the very thought. They attended most, but not all my games which was OK because lots of other parents didn't make every game. If you didn't win, place or show you got nothing but a life lesson in how to lose and realize that life goes on. You actually had to make the team and win a starting spot. I wrestled in high school in Pennsylvania (where wrestling is a big sport). We practiced every day, including Thanksgiving and Christmas because so did everyone else.

Its just a different world today and not in a good way. My hope is some of this is still happening in small towns but somehow I doubt it. Reading this makes me wonder if we are getting old and crotchety? :-)

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For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - h_hob - 10/17/2011 4:35:53 PM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - GoneFishin - 10/17/2011 5:45:40 PM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - Talullahhound - 10/17/2011 7:50:17 PM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - water_watcher - 10/17/2011 8:54:47 PM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - Talullahhound - 10/18/2011 6:46:34 AM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - MartiniMan - 10/18/2011 8:51:19 AM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - Talullahhound - 10/18/2011 8:54:17 AM

You call that music?!?!? :-) - MartiniMan - 10/18/2011 1:27:56 PM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - 4691 - 10/17/2011 8:10:43 PM

For Those of Us Born Before 1980 - Jim Dandy - 10/18/2011 11:08:57 AM

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