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- prank calls. [censored] caller ID
- playing basketball in the backyard until midnight, every night
- skateboarding. The wide ones, of course.
- sharks and minnows in the deep end.
- Super Mario Bros for months on end until we solved it. Followed by RBI Baseball and Punch-Out
- Back to school time. Showing off the newest Trapper Keeper. The first back to school season after I graduated was actually kind of sad.
- Will you be my girlfriend?
[ ] yes
[ ] no

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Suzzer is owning this thread. Except for this one...

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Crying because my sister specifically disinvited me from her tea party.


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That sounds kinda ghey to me.

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Great thread.

All the classic toys I had:

Ghost Gun
Hit N Run Baseball
Lincoln Logs
Gnip Gnop
Micronauts Battle Cruiser

Thinking the Timex Sinclair 1000 (with 2K of RAM!) was the coolest thing ever.

Jumping my BMX bike up over dirt hills with my friends, then riding to the bowling alley to play Defender.

How excited I'd be in school when I had a little league game that night.

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- Will you be my girlfriend?
[ ] yes
[ ] no

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You forgot the 'maybe' option.

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7. Being grounded.
No tv. No video games. No friends over. No going to friend's houses. Sneaking late night tv or trying to lock the door to my room (openable with a knife) to play video games. Torture. TORTURE.

If my brother and I were fighting and only one of us was grounded, we'd narc on each other. If we were both grounded, we were allies.

8. Playing my parents off one another.
My mom was the tough one, my dad was, by his own admission, an old softie. So you ask one, then the other, then the first one again until you can extract a promise that you leverage against mom. That's how I got my dog Freshman year of high school with a 3.3 instead of a 4.0.

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Rummaging for porn in every house you were ever left alone in for more than five minutes (maybe that was just me).

I did this at least through house-sitting summers in college, which I guess is "uncool" or "deeply creepy". Former choir director for our church (a woman) had nude pictures of herself in her nightstand. Her husband had japanese schoolgirl bondage porn in his.

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Former choir director for our church (a woman) had nude pictures of herself in her nightstand.

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Had. Meaning you took them, right?

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Former choir director for our church (a woman) had nude pictures of herself in her nightstand.

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Had. Meaning you took them, right?

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This thread is now officially useless without pics.

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Suzzer is owning this thread. Except for this one...

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Crying because my sister specifically disinvited me from her tea party.


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That sounds kinda ghey to me.

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Just kinda? She also used to tell me she wasn't going to be my friend anymore. This never failed to get me very very upset. Boys are dumb and girls are smart.

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My best friend's uncle's "bottom drawer"
The guy was a fat sleezeball who lived in their basement. But damn, he had a dresser drawer full of porn.

The original lawn darts
That's right, the kind that weighed several pounds and had the metal tips. There was nothing more fun that going to a picnic with your friends and trying to find the right ballistic trajectory to hit the watermelon, canteloupe, etc.