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So I was reading my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's awesome website and I just had to laugh about their experience playing skillet ball. They had found an old cast iron skillet and Greg being silly decided that hitting a tennis ball with it would be fun(and I wish I would've been there). Soon it blossomed into an impromptu game with rules and terminology. The funny thing is I think I have done that before. No wait I know I have done something like that before. My neighbor and best friend growing up(David) and I turned an alleyway into a wiffle balle field. We grabbed a hoe and made a pitching mound, baselines, and marked off barriers for homeruns, doubles and triples. We even had days when we would actually run bases, and we turned the field into first base, second base, and home. We played incognito(in the wide open really, but only when my Dad wouldn't know), because I wasn't allowed to play, because it would ruin my swing and I wouldn't make allstars and would embarrass myself. By my count I think I did OK, but don't tell my Dad. David and I also turned our two yards into our own mini golf course, using stairs, driveways, and rocks as our obstacles. We played soccer in the street. Sounds normal but wait! We both used the width of the street and telephone poles as our goals. we didn't move from our goals which were about 100 to 150 feet apart. We kicked the ball as high as we wanted or as hard as we wanted in trying to fool or trick our opponent. We used a hanging wire over the street as a crossbar to kick fieldgoals. And last but certainly not least we played basketball in my driveway using a part of the roof top that jutted out as our basket. There was no basket but we played. I miss those days. We were creative, and just had fun! I think he was doing his best to entertain a kid who was three years his junior and I thank him for that!
So comes my junior year in highschool, and of course I am to old to play silly games like that anymore right? Well no, of course not! Three of my very good friends from church and school(Garet, Jake, and Lee) had another way of having fun. Again it is wiffle ball. Not to out of the norm, but we had a new twist. We were all hanging out at Garet's house one night and we got this idea to play wiffle ball, but of course it was dark being midnight and all, so where can we play that won't bother anyone and have light so we can see? Almost in unison we all said, the church parking lot! Garet's dad was our pastor and their home was litterally next door to the church. There wasn't a lot of light but we played anyways. We set rules, had set teams(me and Lee, against Garet and Jake), and we played that first night until about 4am! Notice I said that first night. We sort of made it a ritual to play some midnight wiffle ball on random Saturday nights. One night we played until the sun started to come up and we barely made it back to the house before anyone found out. Yes we still got up (or stayed up) for sunday school and church service. I miss those days! Does anyone else have any fun games or things they did as kids, when there wasn't all this computerized stuff?
