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If I had fallen off the monkey bars and gotten knocked out I would have gotten in trouble for not being careful. We were sledding maniacs too. Snow forts were routine. Then we would go "Over the top" and attack the oposing fort. Snowball throwing on school grounds was forbidden but hard to enforce. Across the street off school property all rules were off. "Facewashing" in the snow was illegal but even harder to enforce than snowballs.

I brought my pocket knife to show and tell in 4th and 5th grades. Throwing stars were common all the way through high school (1983) but were more common with the smokers. It was almost a class thing.