When you're poor, bored and you have all lost tv for one reason or another, you get creative with ways to have fun. We did have a couple of skateboards and a sloped driveway, however, and that was really all we needed. The driveway was surrounded by short, stone walls and ended with our unattached garage. It's a miracle that none of us actually went through the garage doors at some point. But to the right side of the driveway was a small wooden fence with a narrow gate.
The point of the "game?" was pretty much to sit on the skateboard (If we had been standing, one of us would surely have died. It's just a fact), and race down the sloped driveway. If you were good enough to make a sharp turn, you could make it into the backyard through the gate and go the length of the patio.
We had 2 skateboards. I am sure they were both yard sale scores. One was blue and the other green. If you got to choose first you always chose the green one. The blue one was harder to turn, and I ended up crashing into the garage or fence more often than not. If I remember correctly, it wasn't just me. One of the Gardner's broke their arm trying to make it through the gate..... She lost.
No comments:
Post a Comment