I see wasp and think of the song “Wild Child”. Now I can’t get that song out my head and my neighbors are looking at me like-
“Oh great. He’s at that singing thing again.”
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Boring. I thought it meant something spicy, you know like that song…
No… that other song…
I lived outdoors as a kid. It’s also why I can’t join the /r/Neverbrokeabone subreddit because I was reckless little thing that cracked her forearm in half and dislocated her wrist while doing tricks on the monkey bars. I also got stung by my first wasp while chilling on said bars — not the person kind, but our neighborhood had those, too. Monkey bars are evil pieces of equipment designed to thin out the playground population, change my mind.
Video games were for rainy or too-hot days. However, we had to buy them on our own because though the folks didn’t approve of gaming, they were apparently fine with us setting goals and spending our own babysitting money on the hobby. 
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Monkey bars were much easier to conquer once I figured out how to get on top of them and just walk across.
The real test on the playground of a classmate’s mettle was playing red rover and surviving the inevitable clotheslines.
Takes a swig of coffee and chuckles.
Cheers.
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Dodgeball and Sharks and Minnows were quite the test of one’s mettle as well
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Ahhh. Yes. They made an entire movie about dodgeball and who can forget the opening scene of “Jaws”? That alone, at a very early age, was enough to keep me out of any water where I cannot see my torso, legs or feet.
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I admit i havent been as active as it felt like a lost cause, but if people are getting theirs back, watch out, world! Axiann about to comment on everything!
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I do fully intend to open up The Sunreavers to moon guard thalassian elves once cross-server guilds begin, so I am very curious as to how it will all work as well when it comes to phasing.
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The man the myth the legend!
We did this at my elementary school! The lunch ladies had fits. We also climbed up to the top of the baseball diamond fence and got yelled at.
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Children are just small monkeys, really.
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Dodge, duck, dip, dive and… dodge.
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This is exactly how I got stung! The wasp must have had a nest somewhere in one of the joints because it nailed me in the stomach on my way to climb to the top. The sting was more effective than the recess chaperones.
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“If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball!”
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I’m here just to say that I always love it when people tell me to ‘touch grass’ or ‘go outside’. They don’t realize I’m a park ranger and I’m online to get away from the outside lol. After my evening ranger talk on Thursday I was so happy to be back inside the AC of my apartment. 
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Actually, we all realized that within moments of talking to you.
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It’s weird, so do visitors when we’re hiking the trails in off hours. Even in our civvies we’re picked out. 
I thought it was funny when someone told me I was chronically online when I climb mountains and explore the desert when I have the chance. Not the season to be doing that right now.
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Playing dynasty warriors outside sounds like a dang dream
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Gah. Recess chaperones. What a drag. And, my adult voice that gets in the way of me living the rest of my life as a kid, says chaperones are a dated waste of my tax dollars. Let the kids be small monkeys who innocently thrive within chaos and don’t have a care in the world. Adulting WILL catch up to them, eventually.
