Laidbackman
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In addition to the sports, my childhood was like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids...we made our own bikes, go-carts, and club houses outta parts from the junkyard.
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How many of y’all grew up like this playing in the street?
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Play til you got Tired, Then drink from the Water Hose, when you got thirsty!
Them was the days!
no bullshyt.
I grew up in a hood aparment complex Maryland so we didnt have this...
but I would go down south to my grandmothers for the summer and this is what we did. Southern kids were really built different. They were ok playing without shoes on. SOME not all.
I miss my childhood 
Ice cream truck came by, ride the bike with your friends, go to the park. I remember going to Annie's Candy store where they sell a bunch of goat classic candies, juice, soda, chips, toys prank like a stink bomb
Ice cream truck came by, ride the bike with your friends, go to the park. I remember going to Annie's Candy store where they sell a bunch of goat classic candies, juice, soda, chips, toys prank like a stink bomb
Remember we had to drink out the water hose. Because grandma couldn’t stand us repeatedly. Going in and out of the house lol.
GoAggieGo.
getting blitzed.
During the summer mom would tell us what needs to be cleaned before she got home. My pop would sometime come home during lunch and see we hadn’t done shyt. He’d be like now y’all know y’all mama gone get on y’all if you ain’t got such and such clean. We’d still wait till the last minute to do it. Be too busy outside
Scraping coins from the couch and shyt tryna have some money for the ice cream lady, or when some of the boys wanted to ride bikes to the store or Sonics. My pop would sometimes leave dollar bills in his pocket and forget about em. They’d end up in the dryer lol.
Drinking from that hose
Cutting across ppls yards. Playing in the woods. Still surprised we never ran into no snakes or nothing
Scraping coins from the couch and shyt tryna have some money for the ice cream lady, or when some of the boys wanted to ride bikes to the store or Sonics. My pop would sometimes leave dollar bills in his pocket and forget about em. They’d end up in the dryer lol.
Drinking from that hose
Cutting across ppls yards. Playing in the woods. Still surprised we never ran into no snakes or nothing
LunaticVillage415
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I feel like it is rarer to see kids playing outside anywhere. My nephew is older Gen Z, 21 years old, and I don't think he ever even learned to ride a bike and he didn't even want to learn... 
but there was no kids on the block when he was growing up. And he grew up in the burbs his whole life unlike me. Nowadays, it just seems like both the kids and adults stay their ass inside when the parents not working and kids home from school and both of them are zoned out looking at screens all day.
Now I go into a good interent coma from time to time but I'm an 80's baby and can't live like that all the time.
I was a kid at the height of the crack epidemic and murder boom in one of the worst hoods in the Bay back in the late 80's and early 90's and we still found the time to play like Pac said. But truth be told, it was an eerie ghost town outside on our block when my siblings and I would be outside because that was that Ricky era in the inner city in Cali when nobody wanted to get caught slipping outside.
Nowadays, kid in the suburbs don't go outside NOT because of danger, but because their whole world is on the net to them.
but there was no kids on the block when he was growing up. And he grew up in the burbs his whole life unlike me. Nowadays, it just seems like both the kids and adults stay their ass inside when the parents not working and kids home from school and both of them are zoned out looking at screens all day.Now I go into a good interent coma from time to time but I'm an 80's baby and can't live like that all the time.I was a kid at the height of the crack epidemic and murder boom in one of the worst hoods in the Bay back in the late 80's and early 90's and we still found the time to play like Pac said. But truth be told, it was an eerie ghost town outside on our block when my siblings and I would be outside because that was that Ricky era in the inner city in Cali when nobody wanted to get caught slipping outside.
Nowadays, kid in the suburbs don't go outside NOT because of danger, but because their whole world is on the net to them.OneDeep
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Take me back
Where these days gone by
Where these days gone by
yea, my shyt was jumping bikes on raggedy ass brick and board ramps. right in the middle of the street