@Chrishallbeck Well thank you very much. That's amemory I HAD repressed.

@Chrishallbeck You can always light plastic army men on fire and watch the flaming balls splatter on the sidewalk.

@Chrishallbeck well son, magic elves had spread these little white flakes everywhere that tasted sweet, so we would wander around old buildings trying to find those tasty treats. It was a golden time to be a child

@Chrishallbeck I like peeling dry glue of the glue bottle. 

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*flashback to reading 2600 and trying stupid anarchist's cookbook crap*

@Chrishallbeck I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

@Chrishallbeck Ate paste and licked windows, DUH! Looked for stupid ways to almost die. Now I get to talk about how it was NOT stupid because I did it and am just fine--even though I was pretty sure it was dumb as fuck at the time (and the not drunk adults agreed) because that was sorta the point.

@Chrishallbeck fighting the other kids

@Chrishallbeck We used to flip the easy chair over on its back and practice launch countdowns. “We are now holding at T minus 59.”

@Chrishallbeck *Hitting captive bolt bullets with a stone until they explode*
Yeah, stuff.

@Chrishallbeck Don’t sniff glue kids! It’s dangerous and it’s hard to get off your fingers 🙂

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*flashback to riding my bike

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*flashback to waiting for the TV station to go on the air in the morning*
Me: fun.

@Chrishallbeck flashback to holding 3" strips of ceramic tile in my hand whilst my bro and our mates shot at it with a .22 air rifle. In my Dad's loft so no-one could see what we were doing. Then we turned the lights out and did it again. Not dangerous at all 😁🤦‍♀️

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* flashback to "rock fights"

@Chrishallbeck 20-approx-a-side football in the street, random intermissions for passing traffic.

@Chrishallbeck GenX so named because they’d draw a cross through the names of those who didn’t survive.

@Chrishallbeck *flashback to sliding down the railway embankment to leave a coin on the track and clambering back up before the train came. Up and down between trains until the flattened coin was found*

@Chrishallbeck Actually, I was playing games. Even tried harsh adventures, where no video or anything gave me a clue for a solution, but solved it anyway (or not).
Earlier I had Lego (or similar) for real life Minecraft. Especially interesting, when SIKU or Matchbox cars crashed into them - solid steal against plastic; sometimes the latter wins. Burning of plastic soldiers has already be mentioned.
Going outside for a play was also a thing - playground, backyard, even the street, Damn, I'm old.

@Chrishallbeck One summer when my brother and I were at our grandparents’ house in Mississippi, we watched ice cubes melt on the cement driveway. That’s it. That was the whole activity.

@Chrishallbeck All the satisfaction of peeling off skin after getting sunburnt with none of the pain!

"We coated our hands in PVA so we could pretend we were peeling our own skin off. It was great. I turned out fine." *twitch*