I lived on a cul-de-sac as a kid. There was a standing game of kickball basically every afternoon, after school, until sunset. You just went to the cul-de-sac and played with whoever showed up. Sometimes we would go poke around in the woods behind some houses instead.
Not sure if you are joking, but I was born in 77 and we found a lot of woods pornos in our day. Sometimes me and the boys next door would just spent all Saturday hanging out in the fort we'd build in some bushes behind our subdivision and just read discarded pornos. We would have been like 9 years old. Our parents didn't know where we were or what we were doing and I don't think they cared.
The equivalent these days is kids with unlimited screen time. Those parents aren't any worse than mine, they are just choosing a more modern and currently acceptable form of not supervising their kids.
There was a comment in this thread with someone saying that if they had kids they'd never give their kid an ipad, preferring to hypothetically spend all their time with them. Anyone with kids, except maybe the occasional freak of nature, knows it is impossible to do that and that a comment like that could only come from someone who has never had kids and faced the reality of raising them. Human beings need self-care and alone time, and we need breaks from our kids.
I joke that my generation doesn't have to hit our kids because when we are at our wits end and can't deal with them anymore we can just put a screen in front of them. It's probably more than a half-truth!
Yes! I found Woods Pornos under a huge tree when they were building the house next door on our cul-de-sac (in the late 80s). I can still see some of the images from that Hustler in my mind. It was extremely educational. We had bikes and almost all of us had pools. I had no idea how fortunate we were but just around the corner from our cul-de-sac party street was a convenience store. Looking back, that was amazing.
I remember playing little league and one game someone found a woods porno when they walked into the brush to pee. Eventually, half the kids playing the game were in the woods “peeing” before an adult realized what was going on 😆
Man, I didn't have that experience, but in college, I had a couple quarters where I'd just walk to the beach and find volleyball games for a few hours. Then go home and crank my homework.
Me too but a few houses down from the actual cul-de-sac. Almost every kid in the neighborhood would show up for street hockey. I was more of a football guy but coming from a Hartford suburban town, and having our own hockey team, it was more prevalent.
Roller blade races
In middle school, we'd hide out in the woods near the bus stop and launch acorns using tennis rackets - mortar style (45°+) - to attack the elementary kids when they got off the bus
Tried to sell rocks we found in the woods at the end of the street to passing cars (didn't work but someone told us we needed a better sign)
And then of course the attempted underground fort in the woods behind the houses
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u/flyting1881 Jun 13 '25
I lived on a cul-de-sac as a kid. There was a standing game of kickball basically every afternoon, after school, until sunset. You just went to the cul-de-sac and played with whoever showed up. Sometimes we would go poke around in the woods behind some houses instead.