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Lately, I have a lot of time to sit around and think (listens for crickets), and today I happened to be watching some TV program when a commercial for Chuck E. Cheese came on. The kids were having a blast, playing on all those toys, running themselves into the dirt. I'm sure they'd passout before they'd give up playing...
I got to thinking, "Damn, kids have it good." They get all the cool s**t. They can do stupid things and no one looks at them funny. They can take the simplest thing and turn it into a toy. Hell, my brother creates monstrousterous swords out of paper and cardboard on a daily basis. He plays with them until they break (which is about 15 minutes), then goes and makes an even bigger, badder, and better one.
When I buy him playdough, he just lumps it all together in one big, grotesque, blob of brownish red poop looking stuff. Seriously, he just dumps it out onto the counter and slaps it all together. Not even 1.5 seconds out of the containers. No need for variation, apparently--but it's all good, right? Then he plays with it until it's hard and crunchy, or until it's all smeared into the rug around the living room. Good times.
Being an adult, we don't get to have that kind of fun. Well, we're not supposed to--if we do, people look at us like we're irresponsible or just plain crazy. I miss those times as a kid, riding the big wheel, making forts out of the couch cushions, building giant towns out of random toys with my sister. I'm too big to play in the ball pen at Chuck E. Cheese. Can't ride one of those bouncey horses either. I'd probably kill myself if I played on the jungle gym or monkey bars.
But damn, I miss doing that stuff. I was half tempted to go buy myself a lego castle today and build the biggest a** fortress in the history of legodom. Maybe I will.
So, dunces, what things do you miss about childhood? For some of us here, we really have to think, but I know everyone has at least one or two things they can recall from their days as a small fry! Speak up!
 Vahn Fah · Thu Feb 02, 2006 @ 02:00pm · 10 Comments |
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