Games We Made Up When We Were Young

Like almost everything I hub about, this topic was brought up after reading a book. To be honest, it was three books of the same series by Simone Elkeles. I finally got around to reading the Perfect Chemistry trilogy after reading Leaving Paradise and Return to Paradise. Both paradise books were so good that I didn’t want to read anything for a while after I finished the second book. That was also part of the reason it took me a year to try read the three books. Of course I read a book a day until the three of the Fuentes boys’ stories were known to me. I have to admit though that they weren’t as intense as the first series I mentioned. 

Going back to the topic at hand, I came across what the Fuentes boys called the Fuentes Olympics. Part of these memorable activities is nabbing their mom’s panty hose, cutting off the legs at the top and stuffing a tennis ball into the leg. The ball-filled sock is then twirled around and let fly in open space. The winner party is the one responsible for the farthest toss. This game is called the “Panty Discus Game”.

This brought back some memories of mine - specifically two- one of which involved baby milk scoops and the other involved lots of mud and kinder eggs.

Growing up, my sisters and I had a crazily wild imagination. We would go around constructing arenas made of Legos, building blocks, artificial trees, animals, mini doll furniture and sometimes even clay dough and vegetables. Those arenas would be our mini golf courses. Marbles doubled as golf balls and the scoops doubled as golf clubs. At the moment, my brother was a new infant and mom had a continually growing supply of baby formula that came with deep scoops. Those were the tools of our trade at the time. My two sisters and I spent more time designing the golf course areas, obstacles and ramps than playing the course.

 

The other game we improvised when we were kids was a bit messier to say the least when we moved to the suburbs where we had our own garden. By that time, my older sister –six years older than I was- was no more in the picture and was too old for the ideas I had in mind but my six years younger brother was always game for anything nasty, mushy or messy. The idea was to mix mud with water and fill kinder surprise yellow egg shells with the mixture and wait for it to try and tip it off leaving a mound of mud. Sadly, in winter we would forget the mud eggs outside causing the balls to melt and make the terrace ledges muddy. In short, we had a very pissed mother who sent us back out to clean the mud off after the rain stopped.

After that I came up with the “Puke Game”. This involved making a mud concoction look as much as diarrhea or poop as possible. We would add seeds and grass to the mixture and place it on a big tree leaf to dry up a bit before we remove the leaf and leave it as a pleasant surprise for the unsuspecting.