yeah, we had fun. there was this game we made up in our neighborhood called "lava monster" ...we played in 6-8 yards, front and back, on both sides of our dead end street, with bikes, big wheels, and skateboards set at various strategic locations to cross the street and driveways (the "lava") and the three or four oldest guys in the neighborhood would chase the rest of us and tag us out by heaving nerf footballs at us. only the lava monsters could run across the concrete,... there were other silly rules, but it was just a glorified game of tag. we loved it. i wish my kids could do stuff like that...
beefree, feeling nostalgic now, instead of steamed
PS i never see kids leaping from the top of jungle gyms anymore, come to think of it, i don't see jungle gyms anymore...