lost childhood
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- Jaline0
OMG, the best game was Red Ass!
"All you need is a ball and a wall. Tennis balls were the best because they didn't hurt much to catch. Preferable walls were tall and windowless, making it difficult to lose the ball inside a classroom (through a window) or to "roof it," as both of those situations would end the game.
Basically, kid A throws the ball toward the wall. If it falls short, he has to run and touch the wall before kid B hits the wall with the ball, or kid A gets a letter. If it hits the wall but someone else catches it before it hits the ground, kid A gets a letter.
In Red Ass if the letters added up to R-E-D-A-S-S, that unfortunate child would supposedly be pelted by all the other participants. Some other versions involved kids being maimed while they ran to the wall to avoid getting a soon-to-be scarlet letter."
http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/stor…
And Freeze Tag and Red Rover were cool too.