QotD: When I Was a Kid
What did you do for fun when you were a kid? How is it different from what you see kids doing now?
Submitted by jaklumen.
1. Played sports. We followed the seasons: baseball in the spring and summer; basketball in the spring and summer (and into the fall); and football in the fall. We had a lot of boys in our neighborhood, so we always had enough for 5-on-5, at the very least. Usually it was 7-on-7. With those types of numbers, it was great especially for football. You could run all sorts of plays. In the summer, we'd play strikeout with the neighbors' front porch steps as the backstop/strikezone. Trees served as the foul poles and ghost runners were employed when teams were 3-on-3. We would quadruple coat a standard plastic wiffle ball with duct tape and crush that fucking thing to the other block. It was bad-ass. Later we discovered drugs, Marlboros and AC/DC, yet we still made time for hoops or football or whatever.
2. How is it different from what I see kids doing now? I don't see kids doing jack shit now. At the basketball court at the park near my house, it's always 5-on-5 of a bunch of 18-21 year olds attempting their best Kobe moves. First off, today's players/role models suck dick. Let me amend that statement. They suck a big, dirty, dead dick is what they do. Naw man, when I was coming up, we had exceptionally skilled, graceful motherfuckers with true leadership qualities to admire. When on the court, I did my best to emulate my favorite baller of that time, Bernard King. Let's just say I fell way short, about as short as a then 5-5 doughy slowpoke could fall short. In the outfield I was Steve Kemp and in the rare chance my fat ass ever played infield, I was Rod Carew. Who can today's kids emulate? A-Rod? Clemens? Kobe the fucking rapist? I don't know, just seems like a shallow pot from which to select. But I don't see kids out playing sport like they did when I grew up. And we had Atari and MTV and water bongs and all of that shit too, and we still made it out to rock some Scrap 21 or strikeout, get fucked up and chase pussy. Fucking kids today, I swear. All of their cars look like something out of the "Fast and the Furious," the ones who can grow it have those lame-ass chinstrap beards and don't even get me started on the baseball hats. You're supposed to bend those brims, dummies. Just because Fiddy wears his straight doesn't mean it looks good when you do it.
