What crazy thing did you do as a kid ?

[peanut]

When I was 9 and 10 years old I roller skated everywhere . I never took the damn things off. My mate Johhny and I used to skate around the isles of Woolworths in Seven Kings with the store staff chasing us.

We'd grab onto the back of buses lorries and even cars and get a pull up to the Ilford swim baths or Forest Gate skating rink and Wandstead Flats fair.

The point of this post? well we once skated from Seven Kings to Canvey Island in a single day to go on the roller coaster.I guess it must have taken us about 6 hours

I was following the route on bikehike and realise we must have skated about 30 miles that day I can hardly believe it possible but we did, all along the Southend Arterial. Thank god we got a lift back from a neighbour we spotted there.
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=17878
http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=17878
what crazy thing did you do?

 

[ComedyPilot]

I used to ride to Sutton Bank, to watch the gliders, then freewheel down the bank.

Will try to get a profile of it.

http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=17880

Et voila.

Couldn't do it now, too old/fat/sensible.

 

[Jane Smart]

I went alot of places on my pogo stick and no I am not kidding. I could go for miles, just bouncing up and down on it.

I do still have one and my party piece on it, is to jump on it and bounce using no hands I grip it tight between my legs, but you want to see the bruises on me after a session like that

Can you see I have not grown up yet

 

[ComedyPilot]

I went alot of places on my pogo stick and no I am not kidding. I could go for miles, just bouncing up and down on it.

I do still have one and my party piece on it, is to jump on it and bounce using no hands I grip it tight between my legs, but you want to see the bruises on me after a session like that

Can you see I have not grown up yet

I would hereby like to affirm I will not degenerate this thread by making sexist or suggestive comments about Jane and her pogo stick. Or her gripping thighs.

 

[Joe24]

I went alot of places on my pogo stick and no I am not kidding. I could go for miles, just bouncing up and down on it.

I do still have one and my party piece on it, is to jump on it and bounce using no hands I grip it tight between my legs, but you want to see the bruises on me after a session like that

Can you see I have not grown up yet

Fwwwoooooaaaarrrrrr
Jane

 

[tordis]

We used to spend summer holidays by one of the many lakes not far from my home town. I was always keen on swimming - too keen, according to my mum. She kept telling me not to swim too far, but whenever she wasn't looking, I swam as far as I could. One day I even managed to cross the lake without anyone noticing (not a big deal, it wasn't that huge, but I was very proud of myself).

 

[Noodley]

I remember one Summer holiday when I used to walk everywhere on wooden stilts. As soon as I left the house that was me on stilts, walk round to my friends and get off them then back on again when we went out. Everywhere which was not inside I walked to on stilts.....not sure if I could still do it, but I reckon I could after a wee practice.

 

[gbb]

Quiet airforce bases, they're a recipe for disaster (and a lot of fun)
Privet hedges, ramps and bikes
Dunno who started it, or why, but we used to build a mud ramp in front of a privet hedge (the camp we lived on were inundated with them)....ride like the clappers, up the ramp and crash full speed in the top of the hedge. Surprisingly comfortable actually.

Firework fights. Lit a banger in my hand...unknowingly into the wind BANG instantly in my hand Lord knows how...no damage.

Woods...climb trees so high it'd make my legs wobble looking at it now.

Bricked up air raid shelters..knock a few bricks out and fumble around in the absolute pitch dark, until one day...BANG....i'd stood on something that catapaulted up and into my eyeball. It was the most blinding flash of light..still got the scar on my eyelid.

It's a H&S nightmare i tells ya

 

[gbb]

Not sure what it says about me, but i've never got bored with doing stupid things....even when i was in my 30s
I figured (after reading it once) you can drive a manual car (or van in this case) without using the clutch.
Start with just the right amount of throttle and in 1st gear, you can pull away with no clutch. Just the right revs, you can change gear.
I once drove from Peterborough to the outskirts of London without touching the clutch once Would you buy a used car from me ?

 

[colly]

Far to many daft things to recall all of them but looking back I am amazed that I made it through childhood and even more amazed that I did so in one piece.

Just a sample:

All sorts of stuff with fireworks
Getting a tow from buses etc whilst on roller skates (as per peanut)
Climbing along the outside of railway carriages while they were moving.
Getting coins flattened by trains.
Seeing what would happen when we threw a metal grid from a newspaper stand across the live rail. (oh boy what a f888ing bang!)
Climbing along the outside of the barriers on Hammersmith Bridge.
Swimming across the Thames.
Playing in derelict houses and balancing along the tops of crumbling brick walls 2 floors up.

I think I would be a definite asbo contender nowadays.

 

[Young Un]

Not sure what it says about me, but i've never got bored with doing stupid things....even when i was in my 30s
I figured (after reading it once) you can drive a manual car (or van in this case) without using the clutch.
Start with just the right amount of throttle and in 1st gear, you can pull away with no clutch. Just the right revs, you can change gear.
I once drove from Peterborough to the outskirts of London without touching the clutch once Would you buy a used car from me ?

my dad used to do this on his horsebox come race car transporter, apparently you can feel it through the gear knob when the revs are right because it stops vibrating or something.

 

[Lisa21]

I do still have one and my party piece on it, is to jump on it and bounce using no hands I grip it tight between my legs, but you want to see the bruises on me after a session like that

Well my mental image of Joe in his gorilla suit has now been joined by Jane bouncing up and down whilst dressed as Tigger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jane Smart]

Well my mental image of Joe in his gorilla suit has now been joined by Jane bouncing up and down whilst dressed as Tigger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe in a gorilla suit? I have this image in my head now that won't go away

Tigger loved bouncing to Owls house didn't he

 

[PaulB]

The house opposite ours in Tocky where I was born and brought up had taken a direct hit in the war and was missing, like a gap in a row of teeth. The only thing left was the outline of the chimney in the brickwork of the house next door. When I was 6, I realised I could get quite high up this chimney stack by spreading my arms and legs out and jamming them into the brickwork and shimmying up and up and up. Well one day, to win a competition we had to see who could get highest, I actually got onto the roof. My mother saw me and she was always a very practical woman not given to hysterics or panic. She came out of our house and in a very measured and calm voice asked me to come down as she had some ice cream for me. I shimmied down the way I'd got up. When I got on terra firma though, there was sadly no ice cream, just the hiding of my life from my distraught mother who let me know in no uncertain terms that this was never going to happen again. Alright?

 

[orienteer]

Used to play on bomb sites in London in the aftermath of WWII. Sure many were unsafe structures, don't think elf n safety would approve these days!

Friend and I cycled from Highbury to Beaconsfield one day as I wanted to show him the Beconskot model village (still there today!). We were about 11 on simple single speed bikes. He couldn't face the ride back, so we counted our (old) pennies, worked out we had enough to take the steam train back as far as Wembley, from where we rode home.