re: 11 Playground Essentials They Don't Make Like They Used To

Who would have ever thought that using a cheese grater to slow you down once you reach the bottom was a good idea.

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I will add Wall Ball, where you and a bunch of kids threw a tennis ball at a school wall and if it hit someone (they didn't catch it), they would have to run and try to touch the wall before someone threw the ball to the wall. Didn't make it? Face the wall and take a tennis ball to the back of your body.

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We played wall ball literally everywhere. That was the default game of choice for bored kids in the 1990s. I remember playing it with some random kids at the city little league park against the back of a dugout (they were all cinderblock) while we waited for our younger brothers to finish their game. Someone bounced the tennis ball too high and it went over the dugout and onto the field. I think they made us stop playing after that.

I think there was also a rule that if the ball hit the ground before it hit the wall, you had to touch the wall. At some point you were required to stand against the wall and face the person throwing it instead of having your back to them. I think it was if they managed to throw the ball twice at the wall before you touched it.

I was slow, so I had to do that a lot. It sucked.

Smear the queer was the best game ever. God it was ruthless...I remember many times going home with a busted nose and cuts and bruises all over me.

Wanna play me