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Walking the dog this morning I realised that I still get a kick from walking through puddles in a pair of wellies. It's just ace.
IHN, aged 51 and a half.
What stuff still excites the inner four year old in you?
Shopping trolleys (big ones), where you can run run run... leap! and just fly along wherever it decides to take you. Generally best done in a wide open space, with full awareness that if it's a car park with big potholes, the trolley will take you into those and throw you off.
Also N American trolleys work a bit better for this as they tend to be heavier, and the rear wheels are fixed in one direction, rather than wibbling about all over the place like European ones.
Not treading on the cracks in the pavement. A silly game i started as a kid in Orpington, but since there's an almost complete absence of proper 3x2 or 2x2 paving stones around where I live now, it includes sections where the surface changes from one patch of bitmac to another.
I've got my last BMX race of the season on Sunday! It's been a right hoot, and i know most of the kids down at the local pump track.
also: walking along kerbs, climbing trees, going really high on the playground swings until the chains go slack.
Having a secret beer (child / teenage-ish)
Skimming stones
Skidz (on my bike, not my underwear)
Freewheeling down a long hill
Flicking through the lingerie section of the Kays catalogue.
Camping. Specifically, getting into a sleeping bag in cold weather.
Hearing owls.
Shopping trolleys (big ones), where you can run run run... leap! and just fly along wherever it decides to take you. Generally best done in a wide open space, with full awareness that if it's a car park with big potholes, the trolley will take you into those and throw you off.
Also N American trolleys work a bit better for this as they tend to be heavier, and the rear wheels are fixed in one direction, rather than wibbling about all over the place like European ones.
Disagree wobbly wheels let you spin while you go. A well executed trolley 360 is a fine fine thing.
Wellies are ace... The adult levelup is to get some thigh waders.
Skids, pier jumps, water fights , icecream, rollercoasters, playing chase with the dog.
Playing crocodiles on the white lines of a junction. The markings are stepping stones and on the give way ones you can satisfyingly bounce from one leg to another very rhythmically while crossing
1. Being at the front of the queue when the train crossing comes down.
2. Going through a car wash.
Riding bikes.
Stone skimming, silent stoning, damming rivers, heck anything water....
Acceleration - whether a boat, bike, car or plane...
Going over humps in the road so your belly 'drops'...
The moment at a concert when you realise that a band are really outstanding,better than you expected
Receiving "presents" in the post. (..things I've bought online, but I still get excited, until I open it and find it's a charge cable or something)
Boobs!
And going really fast down hill on a bike.
Running down hills, snorkelling
silent stoning
Please explain? Sounds like dispatching witches in the village square.
Realising I can go and buy sweets whenever I want to and not have to wait until a friday after school.
Actually, that with beer as well.
Or that I can legally own and drive a car, van or motorcycle. I mean, me?! Hahahahaha
Walking along the stone parapet of a bridge, or a wall, or at the very edge of a dock. It helps that MrsLawman gets a fit of the collywobbles when I do these things.
Being on an aeroplane taking off (but only the taking off bit - the rest is dull AF).
Running down hills, snorkelling
silent stoning
Please explain? Sounds like dispatching witches in the village square.
You take a small skimmer stone. Throw vertically upwards and aligned vertically as well, spinning like a skimmer.
As your skill/luck improves you can get a stone to enter the water with barely a splash or noise....
Poss not quite in the spirit of the thread, but I thoroughly enjoyed shoving an arsehole over into the mud last night. Don't think I've done that since I was a kid (possibly not even then).
You take a small skimmer stone. Throw vertically upwards and aligned vertically as well, spinning like a skimmer.
As your skill/luck improves you can get a stone to enter the water with barely a splash or noise
Sometimes it'll also drag a big pocket of air down with it too, which comes bubbling up from the sea a few secs later
Picking a massive bogey and flicking it somewhere.
All of the above!
Lighting matches
Never gets old 😁
My hobbies are riding my bikes and building plastic scale models. My wife pointed out that I'm basically a 12 year old disguised as an adult.
Building dams in a stream, making whale water spouts in a swimming pool.
Tapping the back of someones knee with your foot - even better if it's someone you don't know very well!
hand break turns in rented holiday cars in gravely car parks. pure joy
I feel this thread needs some weekend pictures adding.... 😎
First tracks in snow
Loved it before I even knew what a snowboard was.
If it has snow heavily, locally, you'll find me running over the golf course .... "dropping" bunker lips 🙂
Finding a chessie tree laden and with a 3" round limb lobbing it high and collecting your quarry then shelling the spiky outside of the nut
Never see any kids to push out the road and let me in
I go every other day to the local sand pit for aggregate either ballast or sand, my partner thinks we play there with bucket and spade when I ever mention it
Silent stoning was known as a ‘duck fart’ to me.
Lighting a camp/bonfire.
Lighting a camp/bonfire.
With petrol.
Or JetAI
Plinking a bottle of petrol, situated next to a lit candle, with an air rifle to light a fire!
And chucking rocks into deep mud down at the estuary.
Lighting a camp/bonfire.
With petrol.
Or JetAI
Or a can of CRC and lighter used as a flamethrower.
Stepping on freshly dropped acorns and lime tree fruit. I'll swerve 5 ft if I see a good one.
Pull my finger, walking on the tops of walls or raised kerbs, that noise you get when you chuck a stone really high in the air into water.
The feeling of a really good compression on a bike or in the car.
Chasing the dog around like a loon, and knowing the dog is loving it
Pull my finger, walking on the tops of walls or raised kerbs, that noise you get when you chuck a stone really high in the air into water.
The feeling of a really good compression on a bike or in the car.
Chasing the dog around like a loon, and knowing the dog is loving it
As a kitchen and bathroom fitter, I get to meet loads of dogs during my work week. My business partner knows how easily distracted I get playing with customers dogs, and rarely fail to get them to have some sort of nut do running round the house where I've wound them up.
Bloody love dogs.