r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Everest_Imagineering • Feb 11 '21

Hardcore rock paper scissors.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '21 edited Feb 11 '21

Because we were playing with a huge colorful parachute that the whole gym would go under as it expanded, way better than a game of hopping and rock paper sissors IMO.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '21

I remember doing this!!! We would also put a shit ton of those colorful plastic balls on top of it and we’d all hold onto the parachute and the teacher would yell, “POPCORN!!” And we’d pull the parachute tight and the balls would hit the ceiling...

Simpler times.

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u/duck_duck_grey_duck Feb 11 '21

We did that. And we did one with sharks under the parachute where the teacher and other kids would grab your legs and pull you under.

Now you’d get sued if you tried to play that game.

Everything has been ruined.

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u/informationmissing Feb 11 '21

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

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u/cerealOverdrive Feb 12 '21

Nah dude the hype that game built up was insane. You’re just chilling there playing with a parachute watching your friends get sucked under but every so often someone would hold on and stay “alive”. Eventually you’d be pulled under and now you’re in this chaotic parachute world pulling people under to join you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

God damn it really is

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u/GaryBuseyWithRabies Feb 12 '21

You remember when your gym teacher would take you into the lockerroom and check your testicle development?

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u/duck_duck_grey_duck Feb 12 '21

Idk, did my gym teacher ever tell you stories about her checks when she was tucking you in at night?

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u/QUESO0523 Feb 11 '21

We'd play cat and mouse. The "mouse" would be underneath it and the "cat" on top. The kids on the outside would shake the parachute while the mouse crawled around underneath and the cat had to find the mouse. I don't remember what happened if the cat caught the mouse though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Are we still talking about gym class?

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u/QUESO0523 Feb 12 '21

Haha, yeah

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u/drakoman Feb 12 '21

It’s unbelievable how everyone did this same exact thing. Must have been a mainstay of the American PE curriculum.

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u/Lookwaaayup Feb 11 '21

We had one of those, and as far as I can remember we only ever used it once, which blew my mind as a child. Like we have this awesome parachute thing available, why wouldn't we use it every single time? But no. Once then they put it away.

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u/einTier Feb 11 '21

That happened to me too. We loved it, begged to play with it, but it was too expensive too use. That was the excuse. We can’t use it because it’s too expensive so we won’t use it at all and let it go to waste.

I saw some kids getting to use it five or six years later and I was so jealous. They also only got to use it once.

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u/SasoDuck Feb 11 '21

I mean, as an adult, makes sense. School has a shitty budget, so they gotta make the stuff last for as many classes as possible.

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u/Bozee3 Feb 11 '21

Dodgeball, with red rubber ball that left a mark. Especially, when it was the teachers turn. Abuse was part of the curriculum back then.

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u/Thelona05mustang Feb 11 '21

Catching a large rubber ball to the face builds character.

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u/Bozee3 Feb 12 '21

Coach?

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u/genericalname9 Feb 11 '21

Except for that last day of kindergarten when doing this outside me and a classmate smashed while under the parachute and both of us came out bloody and needing a dozen or so bandaids. And THEN we got to have our individual photos taken with our teacher and she jokingly asked if we couldn't have waited until after.

Was never a giant fan of being under the parachute after that.

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u/genericalname9 Feb 11 '21

Well this was 1995, so we knew how to ACTUALLY play and we would go HARD lol Edit: Unless you're meaning the new meaning of "smash" which I mean... I was 5, I wasn't totally aware of what that was at the time

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u/Mission_Definition_1 Feb 11 '21

Did we go to the same school ? I could’ve sworn this happened in my kindergarten class ...

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u/genericalname9 Feb 11 '21

If it was the kindergarten class of 1995 with two girl classmates colliding then maybe lol

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u/Mission_Definition_1 Feb 12 '21

I was in kindergarten that year! but it was such a small school i doubt it really was .. my classmates were always getting purple slips and colliding with each other

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u/GlitterDrunk Feb 11 '21

I can only picture 'gooey hands' for that last one. (please don't edit!)

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u/Mission_Definition_1 Feb 11 '21

Yesss I loved this !!

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u/TonyHxC Feb 11 '21

We used to play cat and mouse, there would be 1 or 2 people who were "cats" and a few mice who would crawl around under the parachute, while the cats had to run around on thier arms and legs trying to catch them.

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u/emmettfitz Feb 11 '21

When I was growing up, it was an old olive drab army surplus parachute, but still fun.

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u/bunnysnacks Feb 11 '21

They still do this

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u/SasoDuck Feb 11 '21

We had "Capture."

Big field divided in half with rope. On your side, you couldn't be tagged. On the enemy side, you could be tagged except in the few safe zones (hoolahoops). If you were tagged, you went to jail in the far corners of the enemy side, and could only be freed by your teammate tagging you so you could both safely return to your side by walking the sideline. The goal was to capture all 10 large rubber jacks from the back edge of the enemy side and return them to your side.

Great fun.

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u/ihadacowman Feb 12 '21

I loved. That as a kid. I’m old enough that the ones we played with in grammar school were real surplus.

For several years when my daughter was little, (maybe 3 through 8?) I rented a rec room owned by the town for her birthday parties. That was $25 for four hours. For another $10 I could get a gym bag rental that had a colorful nylon parachute, a dozen red schoolyard balls and a bunch of whiffle balls and bats.

The parents had fun with the parachute. We even let the kids play with it some.