Dangerous Things Kids Used to Do, . . .

Merry Go Rounds. Not available anymore on playgrounds.

When I was about 14 years old, some friends and I had been having BB gun fights for some times. The rules were no more than 3 pumps on the Crossman gun, and you had to aim below the waste. One day my dad told me that he understood that we were having BB gun fights, and I was speechless. I said "come with me". We walked to the garage, he gave me a pair of safety glasses, and then he told me that if he found out that I wasn't wearing them during the BB gun fights, the gun was gone.

That was the good old days. He never found out about the Roman Candle and pop bottle fights.

A few more:

rock fights
jumping ramps with your bike
playing baseball in the alley or stickball for you Big city folks
playing "smear the queer" (politically incorrect)
playing dodge ball

I, too, engaged in most of those activities. On the flip side, one thing I did not do is ride my bike down the middle of the road, along with all of the cars, trucks, motorcycles, and semis.