TBT Backyard Games of our youth.

Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.

First day of spring this morning and throwback Thursday, so we celebrated while talking about backyard games we played as kids.

Good morning, Michael.

How are you doing this morning?

Well, I'm always good when you're calling, of course.

How are

you?

That's the question.

I'm blessed beyond measure.

Oh, awesome.

That does my heart some good on this first day of spring.

Well, I have a share of very

My favorite backyard game.

Great.

Well my favorite game, our favorite game was shagging jarts.

And I hope and pray you're not talking shagging in the Austin Powers sense, are ya?

Please say no.

No, there was always two participants.

One swirler and one catcher.

Oh, I was hoping you wouldn't say the second one.

I was hoping it wouldn't be.

I was always a swirler.

Oh, good.

That's smart.

I never missed.

Aiming for the hands?

Never aimed.

Pitch

and pray.

You don't want to hit him in the head.

Because a Jart through the head ends the game.

That's in the rules.

I'm sure it is.

I never read that.

It was in my rules anyway.

The official Jart's game.

I'm

glad to

know that

there's a fellow Jart

player out there.

Oh, you bet.

I aimed for the skull.

Because I'm a terrible aim and I would think that if I aimed for the skull, I ain't going to hit it.

Yeah, a couple of times I ended the

game.

Good morning, sweet man.

How are you?

I'm doing pretty good there, sweet lady.

What you doing?

I'm driving down here to work by planning.

Well, drive safely.

I used to play croquet.

I think it's called in the backyard.

Yeah, croquet was OK.

I had, I actually had my own croquet set.

Me, I asked for my birthday.

Awesome.

Awesome.

I loved it when I was a kid.

I don't think I've played it since, but I still use the mallets, but not for croquet.

I didn't get

to ask you.

OK,

good.

Can I ask you a song that you probably can't play, but I've been asked to anyway?

Yes, ask me a song I can't play.

I love those.

How about A Joy to the World?

Die

to

the world,

the Lord

has come.

That one?

That one?

Yes.

Okay, okay!

Merry Christmas!

If

you were a kid in the country, there was no game more fun than hide-and-go-seek after dark.

Oh, after dark.

Hide-and-go-seek when you're out in the country, such a big area to hide in.

If

city kids come to play at your house, they can never find you.

They didn't know what

to do.

Wow, I'll bet you could hide from the cops for days.

Did you do that backyard game?

You're never too young to hide from the

cops.

Yeah.

That one's

called cops getaway, I think.

We used to have BB gun fights.

I know three people that died with BBs in their bodies.

Okay, Vos, now here comes a big question, okay?

Think about this.

Are you the one who murdered them?

Oh, I give them my army jacket so it

wouldn't get hurt too much.

That was nice of ya.

You shot somebody in the barn door?

What was that?

And

how

old were you when you were doing this?

I was 16.

I'm glad I didn't have kids like you to play around with.

BB's and pounding heads into the ground.

That's that sounds like something that would go on in the prison yard.

Make sure you tell the kids no BB gun fights.

Be an example Buzz.

Be an example.

Good

morning Mike.

Good morning.

How are you?

I am fantastic.

Thank you.

Well now that I hear you're good, I'm good.

Well I just wanted to share with you that when we were kids

Yeah.

Wasn't that great when you had a neighborhood full of kids and those outdoor games, the hopscotch, the kick the can, the kick ball.

I mean, man, you can just

go

on forever.

It was such a blast.

Yeah.

We didn't

think so at the time and then they just disappeared one day.

It's like where'd these go?

I'm sure somebody with no intention of doing so but got one stuck in a sibling's head

and well

that's how it goes.

Right, absolutely.

You can still buy them on Amazon but they're not sharp.

No and they're plastic.

Yes.

I've

said it before and I'll say it again.

idiot-proofed the world, which is why we have so many stupid people today.

Exactly.

I agree 100%.

Good.

I'm glad we're in agreement.

Bring back Jards.

Yes, absolutely.

Okay.

And when they do, I challenge you to a game.

Sounds great.

Weekday mornings, 5.30 to

10.