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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Thread-drift: That reminds me of a practical joke I played on my Dad when I was ~5 years old:
My Dad played a lot of racquet sports, including squash. For those unaware, squash is an indoor sport played in an enclosed (4-walls + ceiling) court, using a strung racquet (like a tiny tennis racquet) and a ridiculously dead ball. If you drop a squash ball onto the floor it doesn't bounce, it just sits there morosely complaining "Why me?" So you have to smack the crap out of a squash ball just to get any rebound off those aforementioned walls/ceiling.
The balls are also prone to breaking periodically because of all the smacking-the-crap-outta that goes on. So when I would go watch my Dad play squash at the local college fieldhouse, my job was to toss him a new ball (from the observation gallery up above the court) every time he or his opponent broke the ball.
One time I tossed him a SuperBall® instead of a squash ball.
I think it took close to 10 minutes for the ball to stop caroming around the court from the opening serve!
That reminds me ; I have a day-old, half eaten pizza in the fridge...
To reheat, or to eat cold...?
We had that.
We didn't have that, but a few of my friends families did!
I don't remember this, but I seem to recall shoestring potatoes in metal cans.
