Drive in movies

 

Sitting on your front porch after dinner

 

Common sense

 

We still have a drive in here, shows first run movies and it is packed every weekend.

I used to play with these for hours at a time. They disappeared when kids started getting shattered pieces of glass in their eyes.

 

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Clackers was the first thing I thought of.

I used to play with these for hours at a time. They disappeared when kids started getting shattered pieces of glass in their eyes.

 

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No shattered pieces of glass in the eye, but I do recall them hurting like hell when they'd wildly knock me upside the head for not quite ever having gotten the hang of them to be very good at it. :arghh:

I thought fad when I read the title. Some things that come to mind.

 

Streaking

Bell bottoms

Boom boxes

Mullet hair cuts

Pop rocks

I never much got the hang of this either, and while my Mom was not viewed as super coordinated with stuff like throwing a ball or swinging a bat, when she got one of these in her hands she was a world record champ that left me speechless.

 

Surely I could get good at it with her doing it so well.

 

Nope...I'd get it to bounce two, maybe three times tops, and then it would go all wild.

 

Was always amazed how well she did this, and it's a great memory about her that I'll never forget. She was the best, and was always up for good fun playing games with the family in the yard.

 

I never much got the hang of this either, and while my Mom was not viewed as super coordinated with stuff like throwing a ball or swinging a bat, when she got one of these in her hands she was a world record champ that left me speechless.

 

Surely I could get good at it with her doing it so well.

 

Nope...I'd get it to bounce two, maybe three times tops, and then it would go all wild.

 

Was always amazed how well she did this, and it's a great memory about her that I'll never forget. She was the best, and was always up for good fun playing games with the family in the yard.

 

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I was a whiz with clackers, but paddle ball I was like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles.

Who had a CB in their car?

Silly putty

No shattered pieces of glass in the eye, but I do recall them hurting like hell when they'd wildly knock me upside the head for not quite ever having gotten the hang of them to be very good at it. :arghh:

 

Yep, stitches in the head were common klacker casualties as well. Those glass balls were fun but dangerous as hell.

Who had a CB in their car?

 

Breaker 1/9 !!!

I was a whiz with clackers, but paddle ball I was like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles.

 

That was me. I was much better with the glass balls in my hand.

Yep, stitches in the head were common klacker casualties as well. Those glass balls were fun but dangerous as hell.

 

Seriously, what was the inventor thinking? Kids smashing glass balls together around the heads of other kids!!!

Seriously, what was the inventor thinking? Kids smashing glass balls together around the heads of other kids!!!

 

For real... they sure looked cool when done right, but the margin of error was ridiculous.

 

I forget now exactly what it was, but when I was about 4 I got a toy for Christmas that was made of metal that seemed fun at first until anytime I touched it the burrs all along the edges of it left my hands cut up and bloody.

 

It wasn't something that my parents had considered from the packaging, but immediately got it away from we when they realized how stupid dangerous it was.

 

With some toys, either inventors weren't thinking it through very well, or else they were nutty and sinister, and got a rush out of knowing that kids were going to easily injure themselves with stuff. :eek:

For real... they sure looked cool when done right, but the margin of error was ridiculous.

 

I forget now exactly what it was, but when I was about 4 I got a toy for Christmas that was made of metal that seemed fun at first until anytime I touched it the burrs all along the edges of it left my hands cut up and bloody.

 

It wasn't something that my parents had considered from the packaging, but immediately got it away from we when they realized how stupid dangerous it was.

 

With some toys, either inventors weren't thinking it through very well, or else they were nutty and sinister, and got a rush out of knowing that kids were going to easily injure themselves with stuff. :eek:

 

Probably some nutty math or physics professor...

For real... they sure looked cool when done right, but the margin of error was ridiculous.

 

I forget now exactly what it was, but when I was about 4 I got a toy for Christmas that was made of metal that seemed fun at first until anytime I touched it the burrs all along the edges of it left my hands cut up and bloody.

 

It wasn't something that my parents had considered from the packaging, but immediately got it away from we when they realized how stupid dangerous it was.

 

With some toys, either inventors weren't thinking it through very well, or else they were nutty and sinister, and got a rush out of knowing that kids were going to easily injure themselves with stuff. :eek:

 

Of course, this classic immediately comes to mind with Irwin Mainway and his "Johnny Bag'O'Glass …

 

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/irwin-mainway/n8641?snl=1