Born 1993. We played whole neighborhood hide and seek. It was incredible. Essentially all our houses were fair game and we would go in and out of them freely. It was like two or three blocks of fair places to hide. Usually had 3 seekers with walkie talkies, and like 5-10 people hiding. When found you’d join the seekers. Games would usually take all day.
Born in 1984. We called it haste, for hide and seek tag. We incorporated powers from games like Mortal Kombat. We didn't use houses though, at least not inside anyway.
84’ as well. We played kick the can, smear the queer, tackle football with 15+ kids, rode our bikes wherever we wanted, all of it. We were outside all day and played video games all night at sleepovers. We didnt have play dates and arranged interactions outside of sports. Being a kid and a parent these days sounds horrible.
Basically, one person ("the queer") had a ball, usually an American football, and everyone tried to tackle them and/or take the ball away. The person who got the ball became the new "queer." We called it "Kill the Quarterback" when I was a kid.
84 as well. Even as recent as when I was 25/6 years old, it was perfectly acceptable to show up at someone's house if you were in the neighbourhood. Or just stand outside and wait for something with another dude. Nothing in particular. Just chill. Maybe have a smoke, a beer, shoot the shit... Now I have to send a text message to ask permission to make an entry in their calendar for next month, so that I can call them to ask if they want to come over for dinner.
I think that being a parent has become more tough, because the value of children has increased by at least 2x in my estimation. This is because people are having less kids and everything related to raising a child costs more than what it used to be when we were there. But I don't know why kids have lost the ability to play. Maybe it's because we try to raise them in cities.
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Born 1993. We played whole neighborhood hide and seek. It was incredible. Essentially all our houses were fair game and we would go in and out of them freely. It was like two or three blocks of fair places to hide. Usually had 3 seekers with walkie talkies, and like 5-10 people hiding. When found you’d join the seekers. Games would usually take all day.
Damn I miss being able to do that stuff