Posted

Oct 24th 2009

Mood

Ok so everyone my age and older flash back to elementary school,remember red rover? how about tag and freeze tag? Hide and Go seek? dodge ball? Kings Court? Queen's Court? Pin Ball? Blind Man's Bluff? How about this one...Ball Tag? Yeah? You do? Great,forget it! Kids t'day don't know about any of those glorious games! Schools today view them as 'barbaric games that are far too dangerous to be played.' Tag and Freeze Tag have been quoted in a letter from my younger sister in law's elementary school as being 'too dangerous and in breech of the zero tolerance on the no touch rule.' and Hide and Go Seek was recently outlawed as being 'too dangerous.' the reason? "too many hidden dangers lurking out on the fenced in gated school yard where any number of unimaginable things can happen to a boy/girl.' Dodge Ball was outlawed the year AFTER I started High School,labeled as being too dangerous. The reason it was too dangerous: Too many mommies boys and girls and geeks alike complaining they're constantly being hit with the ball. Uhh hello? It's called DODGE BALL as in DODGE THE BALL and NOT GET HIT! Ball Tag went the way of the Dinosaurs after I left Elementary for High School. So what does Blind Man's Bluff insinuate or promote? Promiscuity! Yes you're reading right, Promiscuity. That word was in the letter sent home by the Principal of the same elementary school I attended and graduated from many years ago. Kings and Queens Court were outlawed for the same reasons as Dodge Ball, too many whiners complaining about getting hit too hard or should I say too many over protective parents not wanting their precious Missy or George to get hurt in Gym Class by a round sphere made of rubber and filled with....AIR! Yeesh! Pin Ball was banned when I was in grade nine due to the insurmountable level of violence associated with the game. Kids t'day can't even go Ice Skating during the winter time without mommy and daddy worrying their brains out with thoughts of "What if Missy falls on her tender behind and gets hurt? The ice is hard and she could break a bone!' Gee whiz, I didn't know Ice was HARD! I've only been playing Hockey since I was in the Pee Wee League waaaaaaaay back in first grade! I've fallen on my ass on the ice so many times it's not funny and not ONCE did I break a bone in my ass or any other place from the force of the fall,did it hurt? Sure for a while my ass was sore as hell but heck I got used to it and went on with my Ice Hockey Career not whining about my butt being sore. Did my parents rush the ice,scoop me up,rush me out to the car and off to the hospital for X-Rays? Nope,when I limped off the ice three hours later they merely asked 'Your butt alright kiddo? You gonna survive to play another game?' My answer "Yep! I'm just as tough as any of the guys out there! I'm not gonna cry because I'm a girl who hurt her butt falling down! I'll cry when I break a few rib bones!' Skiing? Don't get me started! Back in January I Chaperoned my little sister's class skiing trip out to I believe it was Whistler B.C., the scenery? Gorgeous! The parents of about 30-40 boys and girls? Ludicrously over protective. All I heard during the trip was 'Jimmy! No honey no! Don't be strapping on Ski's! I don't want you going out there skiing! It's too dangerous and I don't care if there ARE Ski Instructors teaching classes! You know you have terrible balance and you catch cold easily now get in here and lets start our lessons and get ahead of the curve!' Ok so if you didn't want Jimmy and Missy going Skiing,then WHY did you sign off on the permission slip to let them go Skiing for Gym Class?! Swimming Lessons?! Good Lord the Summer of 2004 was a disaster! There were more kids with excuse notes from mommy and daddy saying they weren't to get into the pool until they were there to supervise the lessons then there was kids whose parents were like mine in teaching them to swim: throw 'em off a dock and into the water,crouch down and say 'Hey kiddo, two options here: One drown or two doggy paddle back to shore. Which will it be?' So basically this entry boils down to this: All the good stuff we grew up with, it's all in our memories because kids have become to sissified for their own good. If someone bullied me when I was in school, I beat the living supreme shit out of them and scared 'em good! After a rousing fight that coincidentally no one witnessed,the bully never again picked a fight on my playground because they knew I'd be the one to kick the shit out of 'em with absolutely no fear. *Sniff,Stoker and Vinnie would've been proud of second grade me! I was fearless back then,didn't matter if they were older then me or not,pick a fight with someone because you think you're a wise ass,then you deal directly with the playground body guard--ME and I never backed down from a fight with ANYONE!