What did you "collect" when you were a kid.

[Bengalzona]

(09-23-2018, 11:51 AM)grampahol Wrote: Which is why many of us made it a full time job to remove every switch from every tree in the back yard. 
Why, when we were little it was nothing to see moms beating kids with switches.. Now they get hauled off to the pokey for disciplining wayward children . lol
You youngins probably wonder why us old guys all have thick wallets in both back pockets.. a time tested proven strategy to avoid moms wrath..

Switches... oh yeah! My old man had no problem pulling the car off the side of the road. In fact, he added a bit of drama to it. He would slowly walk  you to the nearest tree, make you pick out a thin branch (he'd get the final choice, of course), make you watch as he pulled out his pocket knife and shaved it off, and then he would tell you to bend over!

Kids today probably don't even know what a switch is. They'll ask if you mean 'light switch'. No kidding, I saw on Facebook yesterday where a mother was taken to court for taking away her daughter's cellphone!!