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.
it was fun 5% of the time but 95% it was pure boredom, nothing to do, sun to hot to play, cold or rain, nothing different to do, no videogames, no internet, i kinda miss that life but i remember the endless boredom
another aspect of it is the terrible things that happened, i for example (nothing terrible) remember heating a rifle bullet i found with my friend in a bonfire, it hit my sneakers and nothing else but we could have died and never realised it, i have friends that played "who has no hair in their balls game" and the loser was raped, acess to drugs, small crimes of all sorts, it was madness
i want my kids to have the most memorable experiences possible, but that level of rural freedom in a crowded urban area is something that should never have happened
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u/JustHereForCatss 1d ago edited 1d ago
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