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The_Batman 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 876	How many of you guys had a crew of misfits from the neighborhood? I remember I didnt get a chance to make friends with kids in my neighborhood when I lived on one side of town, but when we moved, I became friends with a group of guys that lived on my street. 2 were in middle school, the rest were 4-5th graders and a 3rd grader. We would ride our bikes and play in the neighbors yards (which they hated) and just hang out. Sadly, they all ended up moving away and only me and one guy were left, we remained friends for a long time. ANyone else have any neighborhood friends?
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Alyssa Branen 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 2171	I lived in a really small town, and my gradeschool was literally two minutes walking distance from my house, When I was 9 I started walking to school (LOL they made me ride the bus the first few grades because you have to cross a busy road and the cars drive way to fast through there). My best friend and her four siblings all school age lived about five minutes walking distance up the street from me. We'd all ride bikes together, and further up the road about five MORE minutes from my best friend's house there was a thrift store out of someone's house that sold candy and clothes and old toys. We'd all go in for those round homemade like lolipops that were practicly translucent. It was a really WEIRD spot for a thrift store, but whatever. Creepily enough, when we our small school closed down due to lack of teachers and we transfered to jr high elsewhere, the girl who lived in the thrift store's step dad parked down at our old elementary school, walked all the way up to the thrift store with a rifle (meaning he walked by ALL of our houses with a rifle at 2am) and shot his wife and then himself while our friend was IN the house. It was awful. We'd all walk up and down the streets on Halloween and get homemade popcorn balls, silver dollars, chips and sodas, homemade brownies, toothbrushes and fruit (haha) and full sized chocolate bars. Then up the street from my house there is a road that leads down to the ocean and a nice shore where you can see horseshoe crabs and fish and skip rocks. We'd go sledding down over the hill behind our school in the winter. Those were awesome, awesome times. It's weird when i go home to visit (haven't been home in four years but plan on FINALLY getting to see the old neighborhood again in 2012 when I can go home to visit. Haha the world better not end before I get out of Guam!!) and realize that we don't even have some of the same neighbors anymore. Then some of the ones that are still there are of course older, and their children have been on their own (as have I) since after highschool. Others have had a whole nother set of children since then that are just starting highschool (which seems totally weird to me but these days it's not unusual). I get sad sometimes thinking about how it's been so long since those fun days but that is life, you have to make NEW memories to go along with the old ones.

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retrotyrone1989 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 104	same with me! i had a whole crew of guys, we'd all spend a night at each other's house on summer breaks, or when both my parents were out of town, and the neighbors would valunteer to keep me, and take me to school/after school care, they might not have had the best food, not like my pop and mom, but there were its good sides, like they'd have the games i wouldn't have, we'd blast our music, and watched some of the same shows! the only neighbors i didn't wanna spend the night with are the ones who had a dog. i'm not, and still sort of not good with dogs. if it's not big like a pitbull or rottweiler, and well-trained, (retriever, spaniel, wiener, toy, labrador, beagle, shitsu, chihuahua or puppy) i'll be ok. make sure they're not too wild! but other pets like cats, bunnies, parrots, those i can work with. i especially liked the neighbors who had a parrot, that way i could sneak off late at night and talk to him. also, if the neighbor had a baby brother or sister, it'll be fine. especially if it's 6 months to 1 year old! they used to always grip my hand, or they'd pull my leg when my parents got back. if they pulled my leg, that meant the baby didn't want me to leave.
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The_Batman 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 876	Alyssa, Yeah I miss those days too and get kinda nostalgic thining about them. Weird thing is, I remember the names, but doubt I would be able to recognize the guys if I saw them today
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areyouakegger 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 627	There was this kid who lived on my street. His mum used to meet local guys online and go off and leave him in the house overnight with his mates. They'd drink and smoke and they once had a big rave until 2am when they left the house and got wasted. The next morning there was a plastic bag full of clothes on my front lawn. Once, this kid's mum came home to find her camera had been stolen and the plasma TV was smashed. I wasn't there for any of this but I heard about it.
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Alyssa Branen 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 2171	I remember the exact time we all started to drift apart as well. As I said in my post above, the school closed down at one point. I was in 6th grade and would be in 7th the following year. The town put it to a vote at a meeting on what should be done about the school. As it was there was serious lack of teachers. All throughout school we had first and second,in one classroom, third and fourth in another, fifth in six in one and seventh and eigth in one as well. Now all of a sudden they could not afford to even pay THAT many teachers so if the school stayed open another year, there could be three full grades in one room, and that's just to much. So unfortunatly, (I was very very angry and upset when this happened) they voted to keep the school open for one more year, but send grades 6-8 to a jr high about 20 minutes away, and grades 4 and 5 to an elementary school in a different town (The jr high would only take on so many students so they had to do two seperate schools) and keep grades k-3. So that summer we all had to get used to the fact that we'd be heading to a totally different school. I was horrified but my best friend would be there. That is until her family decided to up and move literally three weeks before school started. They moved to Alabama. I was destroyed. So school started, and I only had ONE kid from my old school in my 7th grade class (there were two 7th grades) and of course it was a kid that wasn't the friendliest. The only time I saw the others was at the 15 minute outside time after lunch. It continued on like that the following year as well, I think I had one kid in my class from my old school 8th grade year as well. 8th grade was a lot better because I had made a few new friends. Since growing up, i'd been in the same classroom as the 8th graders from my old school as well for much of my school time, because as I said, at my old school they combined classes, it was sad only seeing them at random times. In highschool I didn't have a lot of classes with my old friends either. Bummer!

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Dyzfunk7ional 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 3942	My apartment is near a school -.- ... then a couple of blocks down the otherwordly creatures hanging around till is no tomorrow.

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bassman21 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 4553	Many of the kids in my neighborhood were asshole rednecks or just plain trashy. So I kept a small number of friends in the neighborhood. Most of the outsider kids parents were strict and never allowed sleepovers and such (or much anything else). The fact I went to a private school for a few years also kept me apart of the neighborhood kids. The way most of them turned out it was probably for the better. When I got to be around 16 I made friends with a group of guys from the neighborhood nearby. We spent the night at each others house, drank, and smoked weed and all of that bad stuff. After school we hung out at the arcade, mall, went bowling, played pool and walked around the neighborhoods. I made friends with a group of guys a couple of years younger than me after I graduated and hung out with the a lot too. Most of them had known each other since they were little kids. As time went on I drifted apart from them. Girlfriends are the biggest thing that comes between friends. Once a guy got a girlfriend he didn't come around as much. Others moved, others got in trouble with the law and others we just outgrew each other. Take it from me, the older you get the harder it is to make close friends. You either have girlfriends/boyfriends or couples you may hang out with once in awhile and that is it. People get weird as they get older.

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Sunriser 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 3807	A lot of the kids my age in my neighborhood moved away. Our area was mostly start-up houses, but our city became so popular in 20 years that it's now people close to retirement in the neighborhood, like my parents. I had a couple friends in middle school that I could hang out with by biking to their houses or something- and we got into our share of trouble, but nothing like I so desperately wished for growing up as an only child. Fortunately I had enough play dates and family gatherings to look forward to.

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darthmunk 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 3365	I had some neighborhood friends but they always moved away so I always had one or two at a time. To this day, I have not seen any of them since they moved away. I only remember a few of their names.

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DeliGuy 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 826	I grew up out in the country. I couldn't even see my closest neighbor so there was no hanging out with kids in my area. I had some friends that I hung out with in elementary school and middle school. Between school, football, and my job, I didn't have a chance to hang out much in high school. Probably kept me out of a lot of trouble.
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Alyssa Branen 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 2171	I guess it's because I grew up in a small small town and went to what i'd consider a small highschool (less than 1000 kids in the entire school) but I always find it weird when people say they can't remember kids names they went to school with because I can honestly remember all the kids names we hung out with growing up, starting at age 4 and 5 , even the ones that moved away and i'm 31 soon. I guess some people just remember and some don't. My mother doesn't remember certain things and people from back then and kids that I went to preschool with but different gradeschools and jr highschools with didn't remember any of the kids we went to preschool with when i'd point them out. Maybe it's the same reason that some of my friends from gradeschool don't talk as much about those days as I do. For me those were the best days, but for them it seems highschool was better. So they don't concentrate so much on the memories before that.

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System 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 74809	I still hang out with my childhood best friend. He and I caused a lot of trouble. Over time we had friends join up with us. Some of whom I still talk to.

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lorax 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 973	I was fortunate enough to live in the same neighborhood with the same kids for my entire childhood. My two best friends were sisters and lived 5 houses down. There were about 9 other kids on our street. We all played constantly. If it wasn't Ghosts in the Graveyard or Capture the Flag, it was the game "Pirates and Prisoners" that was invented by the older siblings of our generation in the mid 80s...it's a neighborhood game that everyone loved...I'm still in contact with my two best friends and two of us are going to be in the other's wedding in August
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jadedoz 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 710	When I was in primary school I had a group of friends that I would play with, ride bikes etc, they lived in the block of flats next door to me. I then moved away.

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System 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 74809	That's what was so great about living in the suburbs, especially in the 80's and early 90's. Some of us neighborhood kids were real friends but most of us weren't. In fact, a lot of us hated each other by day, but when a good summer's night game was conjured up, we all set aside our differences and played together.

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Magus 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 165	I grew up in a ultra small town. 500 people in the town. Graduating class of 32 kids, and it took 3 towns to make that many kids. So yes, I did know everyone in my class by name, and everyone else in high school. The thing that sucked as a kids was there were only 2 other boys my age in town. We rode bikes, played games and stuff, but during the summer there would be many times when there was no one to play with because they would be doing family stuff. I watched way to much tv back then. Seen all the reruns of Gilligan's Island, Beverly Hillbillies, and all those old show that were always in syndication in the early 80's.
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Gemini Guy 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 571	Ah yes, I remember the neighborhood kids well. The first set were my best friends who lived across the street from me. I swear back when we were kids, we had the best times a kid could ever have. Playing video games, watching cartoons/Snick, pretending to be our favorite superheroes, etc. But truth of the matter is that eventually we all had to go our separate ways, turns out most of their parents were assholes and eventually the kids followed in their footsteps. The other set were up the block, they were my other friends from school. Long story short one of them ended up in rehab and the other two moved away. ...I know there were some unpleasant memories associated with the neighborhood kids. And that towards the end, we really left on a bad note. But I'll always remember the good times we had growing up and I know somewhere deep inside of them, they're doing the same thing. Because those were some of the best times of our lives.

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System 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 74809	So many of my most prized memories are tied to my chilhood friends. I lived in an urban area and there were kids everywhere...we all grew up there and all went to the same schools all our lives. I was one of the few girls in my hood..but the boys treated me and the few other girls like one of the guys,well,until puberty..when I had my first kiss with one of those boys...but as kids we owned our streets...saturday mornings after cartoons,of course,ya justlistened for the sounds of big wheels and you were out the door for a day of fun and adventure...and as we got older the sounds switched to rollerskates then the girls would watch the boys do tricks on their bmx bikes in the street as we sat on the curb trying to look like we could care less when we were actually checking them out and secretly crushing big time! I refound many on facebook...and now we are all grown with kids and husbands and wives..it's so crazy because those memories are so clear to me I swear they just happened yesterday!

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