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Post by Willie Dog on Dec 17, 2018 14:15:01 GMT -5
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Post by blny on Dec 17, 2018 15:43:48 GMT -5
Sad. I had neighbours growing up, who'd moved cars out of their driveway and into the street to try and stop us from playing road hockey.
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Post by jkr on Dec 17, 2018 17:10:26 GMT -5
We had a neighbor who didn't want us playing on the street on Sundays. Our response was to move the game to the driveway of the house that adjourned his. Not much he could do about that.  |
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Post by Willie Dog on Dec 17, 2018 17:33:03 GMT -5
Sad. I had neighbours growing up, who'd moved cars out of their driveway and into the street to try and stop us from playing road hockey. What a bunch of asses |
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Post by Willie Dog on Dec 17, 2018 17:33:48 GMT -5
We had a neighbor who didn't want us playing on the street on Sundays. Our response was to move the game to the driveway of the house that adjourned his. Not much he could do about that. Nice... more than one way to skin that cat! |
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Post by blny on Dec 17, 2018 18:08:02 GMT -5
Sad. I had neighbours growing up, who'd moved cars out of their driveway and into the street to try and stop us from playing road hockey. What a bunch of asses Yah. It was a constant battle. Staggered the nets against opposite curbs when we didn't want to have to move. |
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Post by Cranky on Jan 6, 2019 17:09:20 GMT -5
I'm not much of a supporter of street hockey on city streets. Suburbs is another thing. If there is no damagable property then by all means.
Put your hand up if you like to use your car as a back stop or to bounch "esposito" balls of it.
BTW....back in the day, on the weekends, we appropiated all open spaces. No one dared to stop the 8 year old tough guys! We even had a company that put up steel screen on their lot windows and cleared their snow to accomodate us. I would of done the same thing if i had an inner city property. Mind you, i would never outright "support it" for insurance purposes.
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jan 9, 2019 10:17:29 GMT -5
Sad. I had neighbours growing up, who'd moved cars out of their driveway and into the street to try and stop us from playing road hockey. We had neighbours who realized that if they left their cars on the road they were fair game ... mind you, if we took out a tail light we'd let them know right away ... where the neighbours had a problem with us was when we went 'bunking' ... I don't know if that was the same where you grew up, but it entailed hiding behind snowbanks and waiting for the slow-moving cars that were driving down the streets ... then, as the car slowly passed us we'd rush out from behind the snowbank, hang onto either the back bumper or a wheel well and let the car give us a ride ... several things had to be in place for this to work, though ... before anything else the streets had to be covered in snow (no problem in 1970's Ottawa) ... secondly, the car had to be going slow enough and, finally, you had to squat down and stay on your feet as the car dragged you over the snow and down the street ... some drivers didn't care, some would deliberately swerve so as to throw us off the bumper, while others would stop and get out of their cars, but they couldn't keep up with us when we ran away ... haven't seen any 'bunking' for decades now ... just as well ... it's one of those things that you don't let common sense stop you ... Cheers. |
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Post by Willie Dog on Jan 9, 2019 10:47:12 GMT -5
Sad. I had neighbours growing up, who'd moved cars out of their driveway and into the street to try and stop us from playing road hockey. We had neighbours who realized that if they left their cars on the road they were fair game ... mind you, if we took out a tail light we'd let them know right away ... where the neighbours had a problem with us was when we went 'bunking' ... I don't know if that was the same where you grew up, but it entailed hiding behind snowbanks and waiting for the slow-moving cars that were driving down the streets ... then, as the car slowly passed us we'd rush out from behind the snowbank, hang onto either the back bumper or a wheel well and let the car give us a ride ... several things had to be in place for this to work, though ... before anything else the streets had to be covered in snow (no problem in 1970's Ottawa) ... secondly, the car had to be going slow enough and, finally, you had to squat down and stay on your feet as the car dragged you over the snow and down the street ... some drivers didn't care, some would deliberately swerve so as to throw us off the bumper, while others would stop and get out of their cars, but they couldn't keep up with us when we ran away ... haven't seen any 'bunking' for decades now ... just as well ... it's one of those things that you don't let common sense stop you ... Cheers. Salt and sand were a big problem when you were bunking.... never see it anymore, it would require kids leaving the house Plus with the design of cars nowadays it's hard to hold onto anything |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jan 9, 2019 13:20:50 GMT -5
We had neighbours who realized that if they left their cars on the road they were fair game ... mind you, if we took out a tail light we'd let them know right away ... where the neighbours had a problem with us was when we went 'bunking' ... I don't know if that was the same where you grew up, but it entailed hiding behind snowbanks and waiting for the slow-moving cars that were driving down the streets ... then, as the car slowly passed us we'd rush out from behind the snowbank, hang onto either the back bumper or a wheel well and let the car give us a ride ... several things had to be in place for this to work, though ... before anything else the streets had to be covered in snow (no problem in 1970's Ottawa) ... secondly, the car had to be going slow enough and, finally, you had to squat down and stay on your feet as the car dragged you over the snow and down the street ... some drivers didn't care, some would deliberately swerve so as to throw us off the bumper, while others would stop and get out of their cars, but they couldn't keep up with us when we ran away ... haven't seen any 'bunking' for decades now ... just as well ... it's one of those things that you don't let common sense stop you ... Cheers. Salt and sand were a big problem when you were bunking.... never see it anymore, it would require kids leaving the house Plus with the design of cars nowadays it's hard to hold onto anything And oddly enough I don't remember any kid getting hurt from it ... you had to know where the dry patches were, too, or else you'd end up hurting yourself ... I am so grateful that Dis Jr never heard of bunking, but when you're young and indestructible ... Cheers. |
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