Childhood passtimes…

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  Passover Monday in Poland is called "Śmigus Dyngus" (means just about the same nothing in any language). Traditionally, boys chase girls with buckets of water:
  

  

  
  The Polish are very traditional in this regard. We would hunt all morning for girls who were stupid enough to leave home on that day, soaking them with buckets of water completely. Shortage of stupid girls would turn our attention to nicely dressed churchgoers, who come in waves every hour. I'll never forget a pissed off priest taking a bucket from a guy and smashing it on concrete. Then there are passing cars (with open windows, preferably). Passing buses, filled with water as they stop. Adults react angrily, imagine yourself having buckets of water poured into your car. Then we'd attack another group of guys like us from another street, sometimes ending in a brawl. When we were out of targets, it always ended with ourselves soaking each other, then going home for afternoon film on tv.

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  • good stuff, we would do the same on Dia de San JuanBattleAxe

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