How about Potsy? You make a 8 boxes and you use 2 bobby pins hooked together or keys and throw them in a box one at a time 1 – 8 and you can’t step on the lines. When you complete 1 – 8 you go backwards 8 – 1 and when you complete that you own a box of your choosing and no one can step on it throughout the game. We spent hours playing Potsy.
Ta ra ra boom di a now throw your clothes away and while your standing there I’ll take your underwear. Im popeye the sailor man, i live in a garbage can, I turned on the gas and burned my a** Im popeye the sailor man. Or …..I live in a garbage can, i eat all the junk and smell like a skunk. ….There goes my eyeball into my highball, there goes my fingernail into my gingerale, oh I got leprosy. …boom diddy boom, i want it, i want it, i want it real bad and if i dont get it, it will make me mad and if i get it it will make me tipsy, keep my mind off the subject and talk about whiskey. …ate a bar of soap he died last night with a bubble in his throat. In came the doctor, in came the nurse, in came the lady with the aligator purse. Out went the doctor out went the nurse out went the lady with the alligator purse. ….momma just had a new baby. It isnt a girl it isnt a boy its just a chocolate baby. Wrap it up in tissue paper send it down the elevator. How many floors does is go 1,2, 3, etc. abalaba cumalaba cumalaba veesday…ah na na na na veesday, a na na na na veesday. veesday veesday… Playmate come out and play with me Im lonely cant you see te he te he he he climb up my drainpipe slide down my cellar door and we’ll be jolly friends forever more. Oh she coulnt come out and play it was such a rainy day. With a tear in her eye you could hear her cry and this is what she’d say. Playmate I cant come play with you, my dolly has the flu, boo who boo who who who… its funny how you just remember pieces…loads of fun
As a kid growing up in the Bronx, stickball is nothing new to me. Our field was our narrow, one-way street. (As I remember, the distance from first to second was quite a distance, but guys on first and third were practically right next to one another.) When I moved to Portland, Maine… a state overrun by soccer and basketball.. I thought stickball days would remain a memory from the past…BUT… The other day while in a Shaw’s supermarket in Scarborough, Maine, I discovered they were selling both the rubber Spaulding balls and… Spaulding stickball bats. The bats were somewhat thicker than the broom handle I was used to as a kid, but for $7 ($2 for the ball, and $5 for the bat!) I was armed and ready to start playing stickball again!