On 1/3/07, Grogs Tuts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... > Course there was the one old guy (Old Man Swanson) that would actually > yell, "you kids stay off of my lawn". I think someone egged his house
Hehehe. I had Mr. Mattucci (sp?). He'd actually come out and demand his snow back[1] when we'd use the stuff on his lawn for forts/whatnot. Me and the bro actually made friends with him later on. He let me do some B&W photos of his lawn gnomes. Little zany but ok really. Was sad when he passed. Now there's a "new" family (little ones, etc.) there... interesting watching the old hoods change... used to be mostly old farts, now more kids and such. We used to do wall walking- most blocks were all interconnected via walls, so it was pretty cool. Some people didn't mind kids walking by on their back walls, some did. So we commandoed it for the ones who minded. Pyro ball was pretty fun. Yup, lots of playing with fire. Some great stories there. Laser tag was fun for a bit... hrm... couple of daisy single actions, one CO2 rifle- made for lopsided battles- I've still got this great image of my little bro doing some rambo-ish dive and rolls, which really seemed to work better for Rambo... Thought I'd put out my best buds eye with a ricochet... Yeah, guess it's pretty amazing we made it, thinking back. That was way before all the drinking and crazyness of teendome even. 'Prolly more luck involved there. =] Still, I can't help but think of my (i think) American Boys Handbook. Wrote by some scout-ish folk from across the pond, iirc. It became instantly obvious kids of a bygone age had had immensely more fun than us modern kiddos. Gopher traps, atalatles- some phearsome shit, actually. Awesome. Just awesome (like PBS!). Heh. Back in the day, when I was young - I'm not a kid anymore but some days... =] ...mix tapes... ...now I'm an M.C. Memories don't live like people do... /random mix Aw well. Back to work. =] [1] one guess as to how we gave it back =] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223540 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
