Funny How Things Have Changed

[dare 1,103]

Used to lie to my mum and say was going fishing. Bag would be full of spray paint and we'd break into a train depo. Used to be really into graffiti and would travel all over and meet other kids into it. Got into fights with some and made mates with others. That all came to an end when someone we knew fell on the track.

 

Used to play 40/40 all day long and be out from early in the morning till it was pitch black at night and would get moaned at for coming in so late. Would be out all day on just a pound or two, if you got a fiver as mum didnt have any change you was rich n brought all your mates icepoles lol.

 

Summer holidays would ask for money to go swimming and pocket it and just sneak in. And conkers we would spend all day collecting conkers but never really played the game with shoe lace. We used to have rucksack full of em and have about 20 of us running around throwing em at each other.

[Accip74 7,112]

Me & my mate were digging foxes aged 11, with my dad's terriers while he was working abroad........2 mute dogs, no locator.......holes everywhere lol

First one we dug, I carried it home down the street slung over my shoulder for all to see.......we were so proud....

Are 11 year olds allowed out on their own now?

Edited July 19, 2014 by Accip74

[squab 2,875]

getting the cane at school was a regular thing no complaints,made a crossbow in woodwork never had the use for a fruit bowl or chessboard,teacher was keener than i was to see the finished article,never knew what came of it though,probably had it confiscated at some stage

[squab 2,875]

Used to lie to my mum and say was going fishing. Bag would be full of spray paint and we'd break into a train depo. Used to be really into graffiti and would travel all over and meet other kids into it. Got into fights with some and made mates with others. That all came to an end when someone we knew fell on the track.

 

Used to play 40/40 all day long and be out from early in the morning till it was pitch black at night and would get moaned at for coming in so late. Would be out all day on just a pound or two, if you got a fiver as mum didnt have any change you was rich n brought all your mates icepoles lol.

 

Summer holidays would ask for money to go swimming and pocket it and just sneak in. And conkers we would spend all day collecting conkers but never really played the game with shoe lace. We used to have rucksack full of em and have about 20 of us running around throwing em at each other.

graffiti and £5 pound notes,feck me mate your a lot younger than me

[nothernlite 18,028]

£5 FECK ME 50 PENCE AND WERE WELL OFF PMSL

[forest of dean redneck 11,194]

When I was barely a teen make sandwiches and go out all day wouldn't see parents till was tea time.

 

Dad was driving plant machinery mum worked at local coleslaw factory.

 

couldnt be latch key kid now get reported to social.

 

used to make dens ,cook sausages on a hexi stove,climb trees, cycle.

other kids had mopeds like a chicken chaser or a mt50

or pick up a mk 1/2 escort for £30 and drive round a loca bumpy field that we were allowed to.

[gnasher16 29,702]

I feel quite jealous reading some of this !! ...our days were filled making devious plans to jump the postman/milkman or playing 3 and in or all day runouts while trying to avoid the innevitable clashes with rival groups of 12 year olds off other estates .........................digging foxes,making dens and crossbows,lucky fuckers ! .....Enjoyable read this

Edited July 19, 2014 by gnasher16

[dare 1,103]

I feel quite jealous reading some of this !! ...our days were filled making devious plans to jump the postman/milkman or playing 3 and in or all day runouts while trying to avoid the innevitable clashes with rival groups of 12 year olds off other estates .........................digging foxes,making dens and crossbows,lucky fuckers ! .....Enjoyable read this

We used to call for a pizza fly kick the bloke soon as he pulled up and be so many of us he'd not bother. Eat the pizzas we'd ordered then kick off the box and could fit 3 of you on it. Dunno if that counts lol. As for fighting other estates that was as close to football violence I'd ever get I think seeing as I hate football lol. We'd all go to the other estate and have it out. Even getting a kick in was a good rush even if it did hurt at the time. Sounds so pathetic now I'm older but it was a buzz back in the day traveling with all your pals and going to have a fight. Guess it changed with the times though and had someone get stabbed to death over it all. Remember meeting birds from the other estate and always thinking I'd be set up or bump into them.

 

I'm only 23 and used to hate when older people would tell me, it wasnt like that in my day. Thing is I'm only 23 and finding myself thinking the same thing. I'd hate to be young now seems to me kids are kind of forced to grow up alot faster. Life has also got cheaper and many are too young to even understand what it is their doing.

[lurcherman 887 12,696]

I remember the days of bending cavalier doors open

[neil82 1,009]

dare

that's one of the big differences between now and then, I was a right twat when I was younger, lots of petty thieving and mischief making, nick the pop bottles from the back door and take them back through the front door, scrumping apples and pears, veg from someones allotment or garden, milk off a doorstep, but calling for a pizza and then giving the driver shit tells a lot about the changes in attitudes between the ages, I`m approaching my half century so don`t think I`m that old but by f**k things have changed since I was a nipper, don`t know if anything is better these days or not but in some instances a good back hander from the parents or a slap from a cop would do some of the scroats some good, and even tho I had some right sadistic barstewards for teachers they should be given some power back

[perthshire keeper 1,237]

we spent all our time as kids doing what was normal..kids things building dens..haveing fires..fishing with well nothing resembleing tackle..playing army with old airguns shooting fishing beads at each other the only rule was no head shots haha we had dens al over the bloody spot under hedges and up trees..we would go out at silly o clock in the morning then not come in till you were dizzy hungry! now every kid i know lives indoors.on a bloody computer..apart from my girlfreinds two little girls..they have the life

[socks 32,253]

Crossing the river to ride the pit ponies .... Grass bank sliding when the summer came then sledging the same hill in the winter ..spending days on the mountain wimberry picking and selling them by the pint to all the old dears ... Making tree houses and spending most nights sleeping there ... Seeing which gang could build the biggest bomb fire ... It's all coming back now lol ........

[johnny boy68 11,725]

Crossing the river to ride the pit ponies .... Grass bank sliding when the summer came then sledging the same hill in the winter ..spending days on the mountain wimberry picking and selling them by the pint to all the old dears ... Making tree houses and spending most nights sleeping there ... Seeing which gang could build the biggest bomb fire ... It's all coming back now lol ........

Apart from riding pit ponies I still do all that.

[socks 32,253]

 

Crossing the river to ride the pit ponies .... Grass bank sliding when the summer came then sledging the same hill in the winter ..spending days on the mountain wimberry picking and selling them by the pint to all the old dears ... Making tree houses and spending most nights sleeping there ... Seeing which gang could build the biggest bomb fire ... It's all coming back now lol ........

 

Apart from riding pit ponies I still do all that.

Lol good man .........

[beast 1,884]

I feel quite jealous reading some of this !! ...our days were filled making devious plans to jump the postman/milkman or playing 3 and in or all day runouts while trying to avoid the innevitable clashes with rival groups of 12 year olds off other estates .........................digging foxes,making dens and crossbows,lucky fuckers ! .....Enjoyable read this

 

but gnasher, some great things about being a feral kid in london : the allotments down at catford seemed like sherwood forest; you could have all sorts of fun hunting foxes and rats there as well as foxing on the disused railway embankments (used to be a good stretch from hither green to grove park)

 

and, playing on the old bomb sites and scrap yards (all gone now, but plenty when i grew up). pram wheels for go carts, bicycle spokes for arrows for home made crossbows and the blokes down there might have a few ballbearings they would give you for your catapults

 

we'd go out as early as we could, me and two of my brothers (the older ones would be at work) and come home when the street lights came on. one of the estates had a pack of stray dogs that were happy to chase you, but we would turn the tables and hunt them down with water pistols. or creep up on the tramps outside the odeon at deptford, and when you got as close as you dared you'd suddenly scream something at them and run, and when they chased you you'd be legging it , shitting yourself but crying with laughter at the same time. yep, would have preferred to grow up somewhere rural, but we certainly made the most of being where we were1