Things I Miss Pt. 1
Ξ March 17th, 2004 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Diary of a Mad Woman |
Did you ever have one of those days where everything reminds you of something? I have been having a long series of days like this and it has me reminiscing about the good ‘ol days and all the things I miss.
So I thought it would make me feel better to put them to (electronic) paper.
1. Playin’ Hoops - I spent much of my formative years playing basketball. Started playing when I was about 4, watching my uncle and his friends play. I was this little girl, running out the door to the park to play basketball with all these old men. This did not make my mom happy at all…men coming to the door asking if her daughter could come out and play. It was just wrong…but oh so right. I worked my ass off to earn the respect of the guys at the court until they let me play. Once I did, I never left the court. I earned the nickname Jumpshot…and to this day if I see some of the guys I used to play with they still call me Jumpshot. And yes, I do still have that jumper that is money 
2. Riding Bikes with Davlon - My homeboy Davlon…that fool was crazy on a bike. There was nothing he wouldn’t jump over or off of. I didn’t have much more restraint. We would leave on a Saturday morning and not show up back home until dark. Just out freestylin’ where ever we could find. We spent many hours at the V, showing off, breaking our shit and having fun. One time I dropped in to do a jump and had way too much speed, caught way too much air and the landing was nothing nice. I broke a few fingers…on the right hand so had to ride home, about 8 miles, without brakes. Davlon stuck right next to me the whole way, making sure I didn’t fall and hurt myself more.
3. Marco Polo at the pool - “Marco” “Polo” every kid who has been in a pool has played this game. You know the Marco cheats and opens their eyes, but you still play and giggle the whole time.
4. Freeze Tag, TV Tag, Any kind of TAG!!! - Man we spent so many hours outside playing every variation of tag we could make up I thought the world was all about TAG! Someone always ended up hurt, but we played on.
5. Hide and Seek - Living in an apartment complex made this game an all day thing. We had six buildings and would decide from the start what buildings were off limits (usually the ones with the mean ass old people in them), what was base and what inside the buildings were off limits (boiler room…until we got old enough to realize what could take place in the boiler room ). A game of H&S could last 2-3 hours…and usually we would find someone sitting in their apartment watching TV because they got tired of hiding. We would have a group of like 25 kids running around the buildings and just being insane.
There is so much more, but those are the good ones I am thinking about right now. I am going to buy The Princess a basketball hoop this weekend…she can start working on that jumper…someone has to carry on the tradition. I stopped playing basketball when I lived in Detroit. I played a few times a week for a while, but then my knee started aching again and I stopped.