"KILL THE GUY WITH THE BALL"

[old guy]

I was reading the other post about Dodge ball with Mr Winslows class. Playing dodgeball and hockey with those plasic sticks we used to beat each other up with was great. Thank God they have dodge ball on TV now. I never thought it had so many rules.I thought the idea of the game was to throw the balls at the fat kid. Meaning me. One game nobody mentioned yet is a game we use to play in grade school during lunch break.It was called "KILL THE GUY WITH THE BALL". I have an idea on how this came about.Some kid must have seen a rugby game on tv and did not understand the rules,so he thought the idea of the game was to ponce on whoever had the ball. And PONCE we did. I remember stacks of kids maybe 20 high in a pile.The poor kid who had the ball at the bottom really got sacked. Kids would keep jumping on the pile.Not letting the ones on the bottom get out.The teachers would have to break it up most of the time and finally outlawed the game.Thank God they did because I remember a bunch of guys got hurt.Iwould love to write how I would get the ball and run until tackled.But that would be a lie.When the ball was given to me,I could not wait to get rid of it.It took that pile of kids sometimes 10 - 15 minutes to get off one another and that is a long time with all those kids on you.I look back at it as a great time.But back then with this game I was a wussy.

[old guy]

Nobody remembers this. Am I the only one ?

[Perry V]

I remember "Kill the guy with the ball" i never attempted to play that game, i just wasn't fast enough. during my years at the Manor, Gerry Parker was the best at that game. of course, the game lasted only until Miss Stamm or Lucy the lunch aide broke up the game. didn't Lucy and uncle Ed, the janitor, have something going?

[old guy]

Finally ! I thought I was mixing up the memories of my youth with Kevin Arnolds again. Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you - In my time it was John Speck. As for the lunch lady and janitor. Thank you for putting that vision in my head as if the food was not bad enough. lol - To be honest I liked the hamburgers and could go for one now.

[Perry V]

hey Old Guy, your not That old being that if your era had John Specht ,who is a close friend of mine, and he is a grade younger than me.

[old guy]

Perry - If its the same guy. He would be my age 40 or about to turn. Sorry about the spelling if it is. If it is then that would make you 41 .You have had a whole year to get use to being over 40. I just turned a couple of months ago and am now doing the jokes that come with turning 40. Such as Fat and forty, Over The Hill and One Foot In The Grave. Thats why I am calling myself "old guy". Besides with lower back pain , turning gray and all the other aches that come with age. I cant help making fun of myself.