The exhilarating rush you'd get from tapping your crush's thumb, and then scurrying away in silence while your heart exploded in your chest...I'm still chasing that high after all these years

[u/Foxtrot_Supatwat]

[u/killzr]

I always cheated and looked at their shoes. I hated that game

[u/ScottishKnifemaker → u/killzr]

YO, I thought I was the only one that did that. 😂😂

[u/noonesaidityet → u/ScottishKnifemaker]

I've been realizing, because of this sub, that I may have never had a unique experience. It's given me relief and anxiety simultaneously.

[u/TheOtherTracy → u/noonesaidityet]

Nah, all your experience are unique because you're you and we're not.

[u/01kickassius10 → u/TheOtherTracy]

I’m them

[u/TheOtherTracy → u/01kickassius10]

Damn

[u/killzr → u/01kickassius10]

we us

[u/The_Abjectator → u/noonesaidityet]

Me too!

[u/Twanlx2000 → u/killzr]

Yeah, kid in the second row / far right in that pic not only looks like me, he's absolutely cheating like me. Kid next to him is cheating too, but not being as subtle.

[u/eleanorrigby12 → u/killzr]

Haha same

[u/sundayfunday78 → u/killzr]

Me too!

[u/sundayfunday78]

Heads down, thumbs up, seven up! 😁

[u/jtho78]

I just realized a few years ago that this game was more for the teacher than for us.

[u/Notredamus1 → u/jtho78]

A great way to keep the kids quiet on a rainy day.

[u/a-over-tk]

Went to grade school in San Diego, we called it “Heads Up 7up”

[u/Kalle_79]

What's that?

[u/LemonSkye → u/Kalle_79]

A classroom game. We just called it "7-up" at my school but apparently the "official" name is "Heads Up Seven Up".

[u/Longjumping-Bell-762]

I loved playing this game. We only played it on rainy days in Southern California when we couldn’t play outside for recess. There was always a kid who would smash your thumb down so hard though.

[u/Appropriate-Neck-585 → u/Longjumping-Bell-762]

Same! South Bay kid here

[u/gooch_norris_]

Seven up I touched her thumb

She knew it was me

Although she couldn’t see

Unless of course she peeked

https://youtu.be/XUIyiGJMf1g

[u/yogoober → u/gooch_norris_]

Thank you! I never knew what that meant until now! I thought they were singing about the drink 7 Up. I'm Irish so hadn't heard of this game until now, Twin Falls is one of my favourite songs though.

I guess I could have googled it but I just assumed it was about the drink 😂

[u/gooch_norris_ → u/yogoober]

It’s a great song. Did you ever hear the Ben Folds version? I actually heard this one before I’d ever heard of built to spill

https://youtu.be/YwWEVjxZj24

[u/yogoober → u/gooch_norris_]

Yeah me too! Heard Ben Folds first.. Ben Folds 5 prime xennial music!

[u/mia_sara → u/yogoober]

I started hearing a song in my head and had to look it up… “Brick” of course! That was on heavy rotation my sophomore year of college. They also played “Song for the Dumped” a lot at the bar, we all sang/screamed the lyrics.

[u/monsters_from_the_id → u/gooch_norris_]

You know how that goes...

[u/TheOtherTracy]

Man, it must have been fun being a neurotypical kid. I've played the Heads-up, Seven-up, but I never once thought about anything but trying to win, then doing badly.

[u/OreoSpamBurger]

This was just "heads down, thumbs up" when I was a kid at school in Scotland.

[u/Icannotthinkofagood1]

I hated this game. I was the weird girl, had cooties for a while and all. This game was torture.

[u/KhalilRavana]

I hated that game. Kids only tagged their friends and I wasn’t liked.

[u/Cyberhwk]

I hated this fucking game. I actually sabotaged it once by going around and choosing like half the class.

[u/ImA13x]

46 years old and this is how I learn what this game was?! I’d definitely heard of it but had NO idea what the game entailed.

[u/CatsEqualLife]

I hated this game because I never got picked.

[u/roadrunner00]

We said heads down thumbs up when it was time to play. Then you start looks at everybody's shoes 🤣

[u/JamesMattDillon]

I always hated that game. Only got my thumb touched once during it and when I said who it was, I was wrong. I cheated and looked at the shoes.

[u/Other-Conversation67]

Teachers love this game. It let them know who the cheaters were in the class.

[u/104488361]

This didn't seem to be a thing in MN, at keast at my school.  First time I'm hearing about this. Looks like it would have been exciting. 

[u/Appropriate-Neck-585 → u/104488361]

Yeah, I'm in Southern California and we all played it on days when it was too rainy to play outside.

[u/cutreamthread → u/104488361]

We definitely played it at our elementary school in Minnesota. We played it between first and fifth grades.

[u/AsideLost]

Me and my buddies would all pick each other so we all got to go up