Hero Chat

Reading Arandor's post reminded me of how we used to play "squares," I think many people know this game. A large square is drawn on the ground with a stick or on the asphalt with chalk, divided into 4 equal parts. Each person occupies their "sector" and receives passes from the other participants, passing the ball back. And if I remember correctly, after the ball is touched for the first time and falls to the ground, it cannot be touched again. Otherwise, a point is awarded. But at the same time, a teammate can save you :) It's a great game. "Tag" is also hard to forget, especially when we played "kick tag" or something like that... The point is that the loser stands with their back turned and bends over... And everyone from a distance of about 10 meters tries to hit the loser in a sensitive spot with a ball (of course, kicking the ball with their foot). In reality, out of 4-5 people kicking, only 1-2 would hit, and not very hard. Except for one case that I had to witness... The poor guy almost flipped over from the impact))) I think it must have hurt a lot. I rarely played kick tag because I was one of the worst players in the neighborhood, partly because I was the youngest. And I never lost)) We also played "goat." And the goal in our game was the fence of one of the kindergartens, made of a metal grate, which was significantly deformed over the many years of our games :) Cars were always parked near the courtyard, and the balls would often hit them. It was very fun to run away after the next car alarm went off))) Once, a soccer ball hit the back of a KAMAZ truck that had just pulled up. The bravest of us had to climb into the back of the truck to get the ball. :/ We couldn't just leave it for the "mean" driver, could we? :)\

I also remember playing "zemelki" (there were other names for this game), where a circle was drawn on the ground, divided into an equal number of parts, equal to the number of participants, and a knife was thrown in turn. Then, the ground was divided in some mystical way :) (it's hard to explain in words).\

We also used to climb towers. There were 4 towers standing on the edges of the stadium (and they still stand there today), about as tall as a ten-story building. At that time, they were not in use, and it was possible to freely get into 2 out of the 4 (the hatch on the first level was not locked). It took quite a while to climb to the very top :) We started with the first level (out of 4). We threw paper airplanes from the top... The weather was very favorable in terms of wind, and the planes flew incredibly far. We drew Soviet stars and German identification marks on them, and also wrote various messages, such as "whoever reads this is a fool" :) Well, and some more rude inscriptions, but the point is clear :) One of my friends figured out how to pee from the top :) As they say, there is no greater beauty than peeing from a height xD