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| In my experience, all the kids that hid behind trees, turned out to be idiots later in life. |
JAMAICA PLAIN (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A 9-year-old boy was seriously injured inside a housing development in Jamaica Plain Thursday night while he was playing the game of hide-and-seek with his younger brother. Police said the boy and his 6-year-old brother were playing hide-and-seek near bunk beds when the older boy somehow got his neck caught in a jump rope hanging from the structure.
I sincerely hope this kid is ok, but this just proves what I've known since I was about 8 years old, Hide and Seek is for the thrill seekers and the insane. This aint no tame game of tackle the man with the football, or kick the can, this is the extreme sports of childhood games. Hiding in basements, with the lights out (you're doing it wrong if the lights are on), people jumping out to scare the shit out of you when you find them, its palm sweatingly intense.
I once ended up with a hole in my lip from a raucus game of hide and seek. Straight up punctured my lower lip. Needed stitches and the whole 9, luckily it occurred shortly before Halloween so the stitches just looked like extreme dedication to my Pirate costume that year...my swag score was through the roof that Halloween, basically the King of the 2nd grade that year.
How'd it happen? My bud Jeff was upstairs speed counting to 100, I slammed the basement door shut, cut the lights and hit the ground running, stepped on my replica ghost busters car (ruining it) and fell head first into the 3 foot tall Ghost Busters fire house, splitting my lip on the corner of the roof.
PS: Google image Ghost Busters toys, you're kidding yourself if you don't end up on E-bay hunting these things down, at one point I had every single one of these toys...I'm home from work today, leaving me plenty of time for a bidding war.
