Sky and ODD do you remember the smell of lightning bugs on your hands after putting them in an empty jar. I could light up my bedroom at night. Why on earth did we catch lightning bugs? I hardly see them anymore, guess pesticides have killed them off. My favorite toy was a user car tire to roll around the neighborhood and of course I was Roy Rogers and my Boxer dog was Trigger.
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Caught many of them. It was just the thing to do. At one time a business called Carolina Biological Supply would pay 1/2 cent per lighting bug. It was pretty easy money. OFC
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Oh yeah, I remember all about the lightning bugs! Put 'em in a Mason jar and knocked holes in the lid. There were seemingly millions of them around when I was a kid, but like you say...not so many now.
Talking about rollin' a tire around, Gottogo, we lived on a dirt road (at the time) that was about a 20 or 30 degree incline and was straight as an arrow for about a 100 yards or so before it intersected with another road...with a cornfield straight across in front of it if you went through the intersection.
Now back to the tire. I would climb into an old car tire (I was only 7 or 8 years old and small for my age), and my older brother (who was 8 years older than me) would give me a good push to get me started down the hill. Let me tell you, that tire was flying down the road after about 25 or 30 yards...if you could keep it upright! The trick was that if you got out of balance just a little it would start wobbling badly and then get out of control and flip over! That wasn't so much fun either, but if you were able to keep it balanced (and didn't veer off course)...wow...the speed was exhilarating...but you couldn't stop it so if you made it to the bottom you went exploding across the intersection and into the cornfield! Let me tell ya, corn stalks and corn went flying everywhere and believe me some of the fun wore off the ride by that time. I got banged up pretty good a few times.
Of course my mother, and the guy that owned the cornfield put a stop to that madness! It was a lot of fun though, even if it was dangerous as hell...wonder I didn't get killed or car run into me (even though we had friends that blocked off the road at the bottom (never any traffic anyway).
Oh, and that didn't stop us though. My brother built a 'soapbox derby' type of car (used the wheels off my Radio Flyer wagon), and we would race that thing down the hill against a couple of other friends cars (which my brother built also...he was a mechanical genius!) He rigged up a set of brakes that we could use to slow it down some...but even then it could get a little hazardous. One time the steering mechanism (spring loaded) broke and I lost control and flipped over in a deep side ditch. Like to have broke my neck in that one! Ahh...the good old days!
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Dirt just imagine todays kids comparing stories about when they were 10 to 13 years old. It has to something like this:
Hey Trey, remember when we used to stay up all night and play video games and sneak into the kitchen and microwave Tonys Pizza pieces. Man those were some daring times we had and that crust from the pizza wore me out. Or, Hey Tyler remember playing the new game from Xbox called Avengers, Demons and Saviors, I was up all night playing and worked up such a sweat that mom made me take a bath before school and I nearly forgot my iPad, iPod and iPhone and iwatch. Man I would have never made it to lunch time. Boys those were the days.
Hey Trey, remember when we used to stay up all night and play video games and sneak into the kitchen and microwave Tonys Pizza pieces. Man those were some daring times we had and that crust from the pizza wore me out. Or, Hey Tyler remember playing the new game from Xbox called Avengers, Demons and Saviors, I was up all night playing and worked up such a sweat that mom made me take a bath before school and I nearly forgot my iPad, iPod and iPhone and iwatch. Man I would have never made it to lunch time. Boys those were the days.
Come on guys I am only 25 and I still caught lightning bugs and bottled them up when I was a kid. Fun times.
However if you mean literally today then yeah you're right they probably will tell a story similar to the one you just described. Heck my cousin is 7 and has an Iphone which to me is just absolutely absurd.
However if you mean literally today then yeah you're right they probably will tell a story similar to the one you just described. Heck my cousin is 7 and has an Iphone which to me is just absolutely absurd.
Well hoosurdukie you caught lightning bugs because you were a dukie. We do manly stuff in the outdoors like catching wild animals and lightning bugs and swimming and playing Cowboys and Indians and shooting guns.
Those UNC fans play iPad games, make s'mores and have sleepovers with the likes of Tyler and Chase, Trey, Gary7 and Steat.
Those UNC fans play iPad games, make s'mores and have sleepovers with the likes of Tyler and Chase, Trey, Gary7 and Steat.