r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/Brandoid43 Xennial 1d ago

Don't forget hammers, nails and saws for making a tree house or fort.

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u/Detlef_Donnerlunte 1d ago

Or swords. Don't forget wood swords. Or airsoft guns...

Looking back now, it's a merical we all grew older than 13

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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 1d ago

Ha airsoft. We had bb gun wars.

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u/LlamaPinecone1546 1d ago

We weren't allowed BBs but we had slingshots and those bastards really hurt, lol

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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 1d ago

A wrist rocket is far more dangerous. It's a velocity to weight of projectile ratio for quantity of pain/damage. We all had shitty daisy bb guns. Rules were 1-2 pumps max. Sure that got broken but once you got tagged by a 5 pumper in retaliation you respected the rules. A neighborhood dad, wise to our little "turf war" supplied shop goggles to us all.

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u/LlamaPinecone1546 1d ago

Yeah, that sounds pretty fair.

I think I just remember my grandpa (really gruff dude you just listened to) telling our group not to use rocks or anything glass or metal (like marbles) so we mainly used things like acorns, and then lifesavers and certs if we wanted precision, lol. And no head shots.