Stay At Home Humor

[DaveNV]

Dave

 

[plpgma]

 

[plpgma]

 

[tombanjo]

 

[Tank]

For children of the 70s and 80s, nothing exceeded the overall entertainment value.

 

[Passepartout]

 

[TheHolleys87]

For children of the 70s and 80s, nothing exceeded the overall entertainment value.View attachment 66023View attachment 66022

Those 70s and 80s kids were wusses if they used a hammer. In the 50s we just stomped on them with our Keds. Some of the boys used bare feet, but I drew the line there.

 

[geist1223]

How about San Diego (or vicinity). Lots to do. History, beaches, good beer, Balboa Park, Or maybe the desert- Palm Springs area. If it isn't too late Spring, it's beautiful there in March/April/May. Easy flights from your area, or even driving is not out of the question.

Jim

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When I was in 5th Grade (Our Lady of the Valley Canoga Park) I took some Caps to School. I gave several to a friend. During class he fully opened his 3 Ring Binder and puts Caps on 1 side of the Binder Clip Rings. As he was closing they supposedly they slipped and set off the Caps. They went off and the Teacher was not pleased. He told the Teacher I had given him the Caps. I got sent to the Office not him. The Office Folks made me call home and report myself. By chance my Dad was home that day. I told him what happened. He asked if that was true that I did not setoff the Caps. I said that was correct. He had me put the Office Folks on the telephone. He assured them he would take care of the matter when I got home. He never brought it up again.

 

[Tank]

 

[Tank]

 

[Tank]

 

[DaveNV]

For children of the 70s and 80s, nothing exceeded the overall entertainment value.View attachment 66023View attachment 66022

Oh, no. I was doing the same thing in the 60s. And if I couldn't find a hammer, we used a big rock.

Dave

 

[DaveNV]

Dave

 

[Passepartout]

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Back in an earlier incarnation while I was doing P.R. for the trucking industry, I tried to promote 'Trucker Appreciation Day' for October 4, 10-4? The proposal didn't get out of it's own way.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

For children of the 70s and 80s, nothing exceeded the overall entertainment value.View attachment 66023View attachment 66022

When I was in 5th Grade (Our Lady of the Valley Canoga Park) I took some Caps to School. I gave several to a friend. During class he fully opened his 3 Ring Binder and puts Caps on 1 side of the Binder Clip Rings. As he was closing they supposedly they slipped and set off the Caps. They went off and the Teacher was not pleased. He told the Teacher I had given him the Caps. I got sent to the Office not him. The Office Folks made me call home and report myself. By chance my Dad was home that day. I told him what happened. He asked if that was true that I did not setoff the Caps. I said that was correct. He had me put the Office Folks on the telephone. He assured them he would take care of the matter when I got home. He never brought it up again.

When I was a kid, around the 4th of July, we would buy a bunch of packs of caps. In the 3 block x 2 block area that formed our neighborhood, there was one older guy who was just an unpleasant, guy, who routinely harassed and berated us, and who was just generally a mean person. It didn't take much for him to call the cops with a complaint. Fourth of July was easy for him, because fireworks were illegal, and the local PD enforced the regs. So when we were setting off illicit fireworks, he would call a report. Sometimes, just to egg him, we would toss a cherry bomb in his yard.

One of our best inspirations was with the caps. We would take a roll of caps, and hit them with a hammer near his house. As expected, he would call the cops, and soon there would be a B&W in the neighborhood, and the game was on. We knew all of the short cuts between houses and fences, where the holes were in the hedges, etc. So once the roller was on scene, we would continually move around, hitting a roll of caps with a hammer so that it sounded like a Black Cat being set off. We'd hit off three or four a block away, and the roller would head to that block. Then we would cut through the yards, and set them off on the block he had just vacated. When he came back, we would head to the next block.

The game was to see how long we could keep the cop rolling through the neighborhood before he finally gave up. We never caught, but the beauty was that if we had been caught, there wasn't anything to pin on us. Everything we were doing was perfectly legal.

******

Postscript. The old codger died, leaving his widow in the house. With him gone, she was a wonderful lady. She went out of her way to talk to us. Invited us in for hot chocolate in the wintertime. When we were playing ball and an errant throw went into her yard, she was very pleased to have us come and retrieve it.

We were raised with neighborliness as a base expectation. He wasn't at all neighborly, so he was outside our realm. She was different, and as an elderly widow of the neighborhood, our gang soon made sure that when it snowed, she got her sidewalks and driveway shoveled. Other people in the neighborhood who wanted shoveling, they were charged. Bur for her, it was our community service. We just did it, and after the job was done she would pay us. But we would have done it any way.

Some years later, when I was an adult, I realized that her husband had almost certainly been at least as mean to her as he was to us, and he was probably abusing her. His death liberated her.

 

[DaveNV]

Back in an earlier incarnation while I was doing P.R. for the trucking industry, I tried to promote 'Trucker Appreciation Day' for October 4, 10-4? The proposal didn't get out of it's own way.

That's actually pretty clever. I'm surprised it didn't (you should pardon the expression), get traction. LOL!

Not as clever at Star Wars day, though. (For those who don't know, it's May the 4th. Say it out loud.)

Dave

 

[Passepartout]

That's actually pretty clever. I'm surprised it didn't (you should pardon the expression), get traction. LOL!

Not as clever at Star Wars day, though. (For those who don't know, it's May the 4th. Say it out loud.)

Yep. Sometimes ya just need the forth with ya. Oh well.

 

[Tank]

When I was a kid, around the 4th of July, we would buy a bunch of packs of caps. In the 3 block x 2 block area that formed our neighborhood, there was one older guy who was just an unpleasant, guy, who routinely harassed and berated us, and who was just generally a mean person. It didn't take much for him to call the cops with a complaint. Fourth of July was easy for him, because fireworks were illegal, and the local PD enforced the regs. So when we were setting off illicit fireworks, he would call a report. Sometimes, just to egg him, we would toss a cherry bomb in his yard.

One of our best inspirations was with the caps. We would take a roll of caps, and hit them with a hammer near his house. As expected, he would call the cops, and soon there would be a B&W in the neighborhood, and the game was on. We knew all of the short cuts between houses and fences, where the holes were in the hedges, etc. So once the roller was on scene, we would continually move around, hitting a roll of caps with a hammer so that it sounded like a Black Cat being set off. We'd hit off three or four a block away, and the roller would head to that block. Then we would cut through the yards, and set them off on the block he had just vacated. When he came back, we would head to the next block.

The game was to see how long we could keep the cop rolling through the neighborhood before he finally gave up. We never caught, but the beauty was that if we had been caught, there wasn't anything to pin on us. Everything we were doing was perfectly legal.

******

Postscript. The old codger died, leaving his widow in the house. With him gone, she was a wonderful lady. She went out of her way to talk to us. Invited us in for hot chocolate in the wintertime. When we were playing ball and an errant throw went into her yard, she was very pleased to have us come and retrieve it.

We were raised with neighborliness as a base expectation. He wasn't at all neighborly, so he was outside our realm. She was different, and as an elderly widow of the neighborhood, our gang soon made sure that when it snowed, she got her sidewalks and driveway shoveled. Other people in the neighborhood who wanted shoveling, they were charged. Bur for her, it was our community service. We just did it, and after the job was done she would pay us. But we would have done it any way.

Some years later, when I was an adult, I realized that her husband had almost certainly been at least as mean to her as he was to us, and he was probably abusing her. His death liberated her.

you are right - liberated !

Normally the wrong one dies, the mean one lives to torment.
Nice story thanks for sharing.
Along with these caps, we made homemade smoke bombs out of strike anywhere Blue Tip matches. (Factory in our back yard)
Break off the tips of a gob of matches & wrap them in foil tight.
Throw against any hard Serface and PPFF up in smoke they go.
We had a ball

Dave

 

[pedro47]

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They cost less than a dollar ($1.00).

 

[plpgma]

For children of the 70s and 80s, nothing exceeded the overall entertainment value.View attachment 66023View attachment 66022

Ha ha -- So true! My two older brothers and I would also make ladyfinger firecrackers out of those rolls. too!

 

[emeryjre]

A senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he floored it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little gray hair he had left. "Amazing," he thought as he flew down I-94, pushing the pedal even more. Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a state trooper behind him, lights flashing and siren blaring. He floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120. Suddenly he thought, "What am I doing? I'm too old for this," and pulled over to await the trooper's arrival. Pulling in behind him, the trooper walked up to the Corvette, looked at his watch, and said, "Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday. If you can give me a reason for speeding that I've never heard before, I'll let you go." The old gentleman paused. Then he said, "Years ago, my wife ran off with a State trooper. I thought you were bringing her back." "Have a good day, sir," replied the trooper.

 

[Passepartout]

 

[Talent312]

... The old gentleman paused. Then he said, "Years ago, my wife ran off with a State trooper. I thought you were bringing her back." "Have a good day, sir," replied the trooper.

That's actually an oldie that's made the rounds.
If I were the Trooper, I would'a written him up.

 

[plpgma]

 

[Tank]

My hometown area making the news


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