This was an awesome but not very durable toy. [video=youtube_share;TSQQo5S5yd0]http://youtu.be/TSQQo5S5yd0[/video]
One of our fun things to do in the winter was hop car bumpers. They didn't salt or sand roads "Back in the Day". We'd hide behind the snow banks at a stop sign at night. We lived out in the country where there were no such things as street lights. When a car stoped at the stop sign we'd jump over the banks and grab onto the back bummer. Sometimes we had to give the car a little push if it spun it's tires too much. Once they got it going we hung on for dear life. If you rode 1/4 mile or close to a half.... well you had a good ride. The roughness of the packed snow just wore your legs out so you had to eventually let go. It was a fun toy...bumpers. LOL We ran with sissors "Back in the Day" also. LOL
I evny your childhood, I mean mine was great, but you grew up in the good old days by the sounds of it!
Hey, we had to make do with what we had. We had no money. I was hunting alone at age 8 for grouse and rabbits. We caught walleyes when they were running... season open or not...it didn't matter. If the walleyes were spawning we were catching and eating them. We shot everything edible. We got our guns and ammo from trapping. My next brother up and I ran a trap line for muskrats and an occasional mink all through middle and highschool. Bought my first bicycle and own shotgun with trapping money. We ran the trap line every morning before school..in the dark and every night after school. Our best years we were getting $4.25-4.50 for a prime rat. We had about 40 traps out and covered probably a mile of the river and 3 ponds. We started with 8 or 10 traps and put our first catches to buying more traps. We lived on the river and in the ponds almost year round with swimming, fishing, skating, and trapping.
Used to do that, and sadly at 38 still do it on occasion. We call it skitching Have to add, REAL cartoons! I feel sorry for today's youth on Saturday mornings
Watching home alone with the family...and heard one we forgot, Micro Machines...on my phone so no pic. I had a 100 of them, remember the commercial with the guy talking a thousand miles an hour.
