Man, we used to play outside from morning (dawn is really early in the summer) till lunch, then from after lunch till 9:30pm.
We lived in the country so we rode bikes, built tree forts, explored the woods.
We shot bows and arrows and ran around with pellet guns, took apart old lawnmowers that never got put back together, sorry... :-(
From thirteen on, I had little joe jobs pumping gas, washing cars watering plants at a nursery.
Later on I worked at a farm. I can still back up a forty foot trailer on a dime. I also learned to jury rig almost any mechanical thing, because equipment was always breaking down.
Replying to myself because I thought of more stuff.
Some kinds had mini bikes, when we were about eight, but my grandmother forbade me from riding one, but she did let me drive her car when I was about 12 to go visit my friends.
Also we'd go camping by this nice place near a waterfall with just two wool blankets. We'd take some cut hay from a nearby field to stuff under the first blanket and cover ourselves with the other.
We lived in the country so we rode bikes, built tree forts, explored the woods.
We shot bows and arrows and ran around with pellet guns, took apart old lawnmowers that never got put back together, sorry... :-(
From thirteen on, I had little joe jobs pumping gas, washing cars watering plants at a nursery.
Later on I worked at a farm. I can still back up a forty foot trailer on a dime. I also learned to jury rig almost any mechanical thing, because equipment was always breaking down.