re: Things you did as kids

Stage bum fights.

Pillow fort wars while eating tons of candy.

We used to have wars in the woods and actually shoot each other with BB guns. We also would see who was the biggest pussy by throwing jarts at each other. Jumped off roofs for fun. All kinds of shite that kids don't do now

Back in the day when the trucks would come thru neighborhoods spraying for mosquitos and such, we would ride our bikes behind the truck. The "cloud" back then was as thick as fog and couldn't see anything and the object was not to ride into a parked car.
Good times.

Catch lightening bugs
Played softball the the vacant lot across the street.
Climb to the roof of my Playhouse and to see the shapes in the clouds.
Swing on the back swing while listening to my Walkman until midnight.

Me and my friends used to ride our bikes all over the neighborhood. We'd kick down trashcans as we were riding and we'd go exploring through the storm drains. Went into the woods and shot fireworks, hit each other with sticks, and just other totally terrible ideas.

Stood a nickel up on its outer edge and slammed a plastic salt or pepper shaker over it (the kind they have at McD) so the nickel would shatter the bottom and was driven up into the shaker. Next time someone picked it up, it would pour out in a huge mess. If you dragged it to the edge of the table, there was a better chance that it would get all over the person sitting there. Bonus if you then did it to all surrounding tables so that when they reached for a new one it happened all over again.

Rubbed a ball point pen at a hard angle against a page until it heated up and burned each other with it.

Balled up an entire sheet of notebook paper to make an enormous spit ball that everyone on the bus would throw at the crossing guards at the same time.

Balanced black cats on the edge of the metal drainage culverts in the neighborhood and then lit them...when they went off they would ricochet on the metal and make a horrible loud noise.

Catch frogs and lizards and fill toy cars and trucks up with mud, stick the frogs and lizards in them to make passengers and stage wrecks and obstacle courses.

Try to set traps for the feral cats in the drainage canals.

Build forts in the drainage canals.

We lived in a small town and would put a woman's wallet on fishing line and put it in middle of road, then hide in bushes.
Profit.

My whole Little League team rode in the bed of the coach's pickup truck from our school to the ballpark for every game.

Nobody gave a shite or complained. Of course, if Coach had wrecked, we would've all been dead.