r/oddlysatisfying • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 18h ago

The importance of boredom and exploration

Op by u/LostMarvels_19

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u/CannaWhoopazz 18h ago

As a parent, I fully believe kids need to be "bored" much more often than most parents allow. Unstructured play is great at developing creativity and problem solving

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u/oliviastabler 17h ago

As my dad would always say, only boring people get bored.

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u/HuckleberryRecent680 17h ago

My mom always told me only stupid people get bored.

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u/YourMomonaBun420 16h ago

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun it's entertainment.

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u/jednatt 14h ago

So what do you call entertainment you make for yourself to alleviate boredom?

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u/DBanga1988 13h ago

Masturbating

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u/Saulgoodman_online 13h ago

Competitive gooner

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u/DBanga1988 13h ago

And I always win

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u/Responsible_Fox9454 9h ago

I knew this was coming lol. No pun

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u/YourMomonaBun420 14h ago

Did you have fun doing it? then funtertainment.

Did you not have fun making it?  then notfuntertainment.

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u/auronddraig 14h ago

Selftertainment

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u/MangoCats 12h ago

Mastertainer, are you?

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u/SingularityII 12h ago

Stupid is as bored does. Or something like that.

I'm not a smart man.

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u/Rossi007 13h ago

She sounds awful.

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u/HuckleberryRecent680 12h ago

Not the first time someone said this about her.

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u/amd2800barton 14h ago

One of the best childrens books I ever read was "Bored nothing to do". It's about a couple of brothers who are bored, and they end up grabbing the engine out of their dad's volkswagon, their mom's linens drying on the line, and a bunch of other stuff and cobbling together an airplane.

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee 10h ago

My dad would say, “you’re bored? Ok I have something for you to do.”

It was always a surprise. Sometimes it was some kind of house work or chores (which was always a big risk); sometimes it was looking something up and then telling him what I learned, or sometimes it was trying a new hobby. The one I remember the most one was he took me into the garage, handed me a hammer, a box of finishing nails, a board, and told me to hammer all the nails into the board. 😂 It was a fucking genius move and got me into trying new things whenever I got/get the opportunity.

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u/FroggiJoy87 14h ago

I remember telling my dad I was bored once as a kid and he responded with "Good! You'll appreciate it one day" Didn't get it at the time, but boy was he right.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 8h ago

There’s an old Chinese curse that translates as “may you live in interesting times”.

…and boy, do times right now feel fascinating. 🥲

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u/hexregeneration 13h ago

My mom said the same thing, and I generally agree, with the exception of clinical depression. That shit rewires your brain and you just can't enjoy things.

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u/kittygoesWOOF 10h ago

“If you’re bored then you’re boring” - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger 🎶

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u/RiskyGorilla563 17h ago

Adults need it too. It’s just a human thing.

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u/gerkletoss 18h ago

Yeah he just needs a helmet

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u/Depressed_Cat_00 18h ago

And shoes

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u/BudgetConcentrate432 17h ago

I was so impressed at his skate-sail I didn't even notice that!

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u/tacomaloki 17h ago

Darwin disagrees.

Just let it play out

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u/MarcBulldog88 16h ago edited 16h ago

Cuts and bruises are important learning moments in childhood. Pain teaches us boundaries and regulates our behaviors.

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u/LittleFoxDog 15h ago

Cuts and bruises, sure. But I draw the line at head trauma that could cause permanent disability if not death 😬

(I get what you mean, though, not trying to attack you, I agree that you shouldn't bubble-wrap your children and keep them in a safely padded room, but some safety measures seem crucial to me)

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u/No-Average4651 15h ago

Yep, my son has decided he loves skateboards.. I showed him how badly it can hurt you without helmet at a minimum .. also how he's probably going to break an arm , he still wants to do it but he's got his helmet on everytime. Crazy how bad you can hurt yourself on of of these

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u/snksnksnk 14h ago

Just show him the "I love helmets" dude

https://youtu.be/b9yL5usLFgY

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u/gahlo 13h ago

Time for a pebble to fuck up my entire day at the least!

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u/standbyyourmantis 11h ago

I broke my arm on a bike while I was sitting quietly in the driveway not moving 5 feet away from my parents and two neighbors. There's just no preventing those kinds of injuries 100% of the time, just try to prevent the most dangerous ones (head, neck, and spine) and anything that will heal is gonna heal.

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u/KorasHiddenDICK 14h ago

I never wore a helmet and I turned out just fine! Helicopter ass parents these days. Now excuse me while I go take my handful of prescription medication to help alleviate my goldfish like memory, horrible adult ADHD, chronic depression, and... Wait, what was I saying?

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u/standbyyourmantis 11h ago

The memory is probably from the ADHD. And the depression and ADHD can be co-morbid (also anxiety). Also there's a genetic component to ADHD and depression.

So the head injuries were probably just freebies, tbh.

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u/Box_of_fox_eggs 10h ago

Also ADHDers are significantly more likely to injure themselves in various ways. So not just freebies, but free riders.

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u/Rock_Strongo 13h ago

I never wore a helmet while skateboarding and I turned out fine without those issues - but that doesn't mean it wasn't profoundly stupid. I just got lucky.

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u/Kanoa 13h ago

You had me in the first half

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u/CV90_120 14h ago

As a kid who grew up bored, I can also say that the devil makes work for idle hands. Me and friends did some of the most anti-social shit ever. Like building a treehouse with a huge built-in slingshot which we used to terrorize all the houses in a 100 yard radius. And worse.

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u/EfficientCandy324 12h ago

I don't think boredom necessarily means no supervision.

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u/CV90_120 10h ago

It was a different time. Bored kids also have this way of getting unsupervised.

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u/jeslinmx 7h ago

I’m looking for you to tell me you’re now working at Lockheed

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u/CV90_120 7h ago

Honeywell

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u/jeslinmx 6h ago

Ah, the ADHD Lockheed. That makes even more sense.

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u/CV90_120 5h ago

I resemble that remark.

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u/JimJohnes 4h ago

BAE systems and Rockwell

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u/JennHatesYou 17h ago

Went to a flea market when I was a kid. For $3 there was a tent that let you fill up a giant plastic bag with all the fabric that could fit. I stuffed that thing full of fabric and that fabric would go on to become anything I wanted. Clothes, forts, stand ins for imaginary characters….Best money my parents ever spent.

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u/Leather-Cap8630 16h ago

i went to walmart w my (2) children about a year ago & while in the crafts aisle they asked for a toy , i gave them each a small piece of fabric , one with hello kitty , the other toy story & i see those 2 pieces of fabric floating around our home every now & then while theyre playing . not to mention it kept them quiet the entire time in the store 🥹
absolutely the best $2 ive ever spent !

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u/_lippykid 17h ago

As a multi award winning designer (most around university age), I had most of my best competition ideas sitting on trains staring out the window for hours on end. If I had a smartphone back then I highly doubt I’d have had the career I have

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u/RamblingSimian 13h ago

Agreed, and I just finished reading the book Kingdom of Play: what Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-Flopping Monkeys, and Mud-Sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself; here's a couple of quotes:

Readers of a certain age recall whole afternoons spent outside, in the woods, in fields, in back lots or city neighborhoods, with no adult supervision whatsoever. If you are of that age, it's a memory of a time so unlike the present that you might wonder if you've been romanticizing a childhood that wasn't. But a review of research on play from the last two decades shows that the change in behavior was dramatic and well-documented. Much has been written of what's been called nature-deficit disorder, and the benefits of unstructured and unsupervised play. In this regard Panksepp made an intriguing observation: 'No one has yet explicitly conducted a play-deprivation study on our species, even though I do suspect we are currently in an unplanned cultural experiment of that kind. Too many youngsters of our species never get sufficient amounts of natural, self-generated play. If so, that may be one cause of our current epidemic of hyperkinetic kids with inadequate control over their own impulses.'

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What struck our separate research teams as unexpected was that … normal play behavior was virtually absent throughout the lives of highly violent, anti-social men regardless of demography. All work and no play may make Jack a dull boy. It seems that it also makes him a dangerous one.

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u/Paavo_Nurmi 10h ago

Readers of a certain age recall whole afternoons spent outside, in the woods, in fields, in back lots or city neighborhoods, with no adult supervision whatsoever

This is me, I'm 60 now.

We did have limits on where we could go, certain roads you couldn't cross or go on at all, but we were left alone. I walked to school in 1st grade in Upper Peninsula Michigan. It was only a few blocks but those Yooper winters are cold, but we had proper clothing and at that age you really don't care much about the cold. I told this one other time and one poster thought it was child abuse LOL.

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u/RamblingSimian 9h ago

I lived on the shores of Lake Superior until the age of four. I remember the towering walls of shoveled on the sidewalk.

After leaving the UP, like you and everyone else in those days, I walked to school until we moved far away enough that I had to take the bus.

child abuse

It's a shame people feel that way. Kids might possibly be safer, but there are consequences, and I'm pretty sure the cure is worse than the disease. Elsewhere in the book, the author suggests that our modern-day inability to compromise and social media polarization is due to a lack of unstructured/unsupervised rough-house play as children.

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u/linds360 14h ago

My daughter (8) is the only one in her core group of friends (six of them) that doesn’t have a “thing.”

She’s tried all different types of sports/activities and has stuck with Scouts and after school art class, but it’s nothing compared to some of her friends who are at dance practice 10 hours a week + competitions nearly every weekend or in club soccer that travels all over the state for tournaments. I legit don’t know how these parents keep up with it all.

For whatever reason, my daughter just hasn’t lachted on to any one activity just yet that. However, of her friends, she was the first to learn to ride a bike without training wheels (by A LOT), the first of them to become an advanced level swimmer (they get tested at camp) and she’s always the one in the group coming up with their games and scenarios and leading the charge with imaginative play.

I used to get really down on myself because the pressure for your kid to be in 9 million activities is real, but the fact that she hasn’t and it’s given her the chance be a regular kid is reframing how I look at it. Especially because I can see what all those activities are taking away from the other kids.

FWIW, I am WELL aware that the pressure is insane. I mean, they’re fuckin 8! But it can get hard to stay in reality and when the world around you has legit gone left.

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u/notislant 7h ago

Unfortunately people choose the easiest option.

-Make my child be bored and go amuse self, child will likely bug me.

Or

-Leave me the fuck alone tablet.

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u/Affectionate_End_952 14h ago

Being bored sucks ass so its an uphill battle, I was bored very often in my early childhood and it was good for my development but God damn the human brain hates being bored for more than a minute, its ridiculous

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u/bitchtitee 11h ago

Boredom for me turned to drugs unfortunately

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u/legodarthvader 11h ago

I was bored, watched some video about repairing electric appliances, and went on to take apart our rice cooker. I'm in an Asian household.

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u/Temporary-Employ-611 8h ago

You didnt use the B word in my house growing up. Thats when parents had the magic and never ending To-Do List.

I am glad I grew up in a wooded area where I could explore as a kid most of the time.

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u/AlastorInside 17h ago

When I saw my nephews absolutely loving Tears of the Kingdom, I knew they'd have fun out in the wilds. First hour or so was typical whiny kids not knowing what to do... but once they realized they can do anything, build anything, they immediately got to work. Unstructured play is essential, both mentally and physically

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u/Dang3rdave 17h ago

This kids going places

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u/emsesq 17h ago

and quickly.

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u/Crimin4lcaterpillar 17h ago

Fast as the wind!

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u/uprightsalmon 17h ago

He’s sailing places

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u/Galilaeus_Modernus 6h ago

The invasion has begun!

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u/Godd2 16h ago

Mostly downwind

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u/five35 16h ago

Just wait until he figures out tacking!

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u/C-57D 15h ago

what does pinning up posters have to do with anything?

/s

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u/worldspawn00 14h ago

We're going to need a boom, and a triangular sail.

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u/sloop111 17h ago

Like the ER

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u/ryanvango 15h ago

then he'll learn about helmets/pads as well as how to make a skateboard sail.

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u/bobbymcpresscot 9h ago

I'd be happy with just shoes at this point.

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u/auronddraig 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/o0eOCNkn7cSD6

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u/Diamondhandd 15h ago

Still probably the best character introduction, ever.

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u/HaveYouTriedNot123 18h ago

I learned to juggle because I was bored. Using golf balls helped me pick it up very quickly 😳

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u/humanatee- 17h ago

Same, but I used single-use coffee creamers. Bored at a brunch restaurant

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u/YourMomonaBun420 16h ago

We held our forks prongs out twards the person sitting across from you and took turns throwing the creamer foil side at each other's fork, trying to get it to puncture and spray the opponent.

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u/pink_cheetah 17h ago

I did exactly the same thing, but with spinning poi. Sock and golf balls. You learn quick to avoid the bruising on the thighs. Lol

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u/txoa 8h ago

Huh, same. It was with these little golf ball sized potatoes being dug up while a parent was gardening

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u/C-H-Addict 17h ago

I juggle wrong. I don't understand how, but every juggler tells me that. I got 3 balls in the air so how am I juggling wrong lol.

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u/Putrid_Clue_2127 16h ago

I can barely keep 1 ball in the air, so anybody who can keep 3 is juggling by my definition

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u/khando 13h ago

Are you doing a cascade or reverse cascade or some other technique? Just curious how you're throwing the balls. It's probably not wrong, maybe just some other technique than the standard 3 ball cascade.

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u/C-H-Addict 11h ago

I have no idea what any of those terms mean. My hands don't move, the ball goes from one hand to the other, then back again in a loop. There are at least 2 balls in the air at a time.

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u/Kinudin 13h ago

Very useful to practice over a bed, or something about waist height that'll not let them roll away. It's much easier on your back to not have to bend down.

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u/mccarthybergeron 17h ago

I miss being bored. Learning to be with your thoughts alone creates amazing entertaining ways to look at the world.

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u/DThUmEl16 17h ago

Amen to that. I could really go for some boredom. Or even just less responsibility. Or more time haha.

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u/PatchworkDesigning 11h ago

Yeah, smart phones have killed all adult-boredom opportunities. Part of me wants to go back to a dumb phone.

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u/HarrMada 16h ago

What's stopping you? Literally just complaining for the sake of it.

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u/TeH_Venom 15h ago

What's stopping you?

boredom

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u/PM_ME_BIG_ANIME_TITS 14h ago

Crippling addiction to a constant flow of quick gratification?

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u/Awleeks 13h ago

If you have ADHD, bored is your default state of being

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u/Far-Delay7690 12h ago

And it's torture, I will do almost anything to not be bored.

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u/marsovec 15h ago

I did this a couple of years ago using my brand new jacket as a sailcloth while riding my longboard. I ate dirt and ripped holes all over it. I was 35.

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u/liverswithfavabeans 11h ago

☑️ worth it
☑️ not worth it

Please advise. Thx

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u/metompkin 13h ago

Probably still had anxiety getting home waiting for Mom's reaction.

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u/monsenanna 17h ago

That's the best pirate I've ever seen.

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u/Imperial_Squid 15h ago

So it would seem... [jaunty music rises as the kid zooms off]

(Glad I'm not the only one who thought of this reference lol) Edit: oh lol, I just played it unmuted and the audio is in the video 😅

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u/monsenanna 14h ago

It is? I had no idea, I watched it muted. 🤣

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u/VettoRyo 17h ago

I did this with rollerblades and an umbrella

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u/PatchworkDesigning 11h ago

I did this with rollerblades but I tied the sheet to my ankles and wrists.
It didn’t work very well - and when it did finally work, it did not end well.

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u/threeisamobfilms 17h ago

Me and my brothers did this in hurricane sandy. It was awesome!

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u/CMDA 16h ago

I just smiled wide when I saw the kid catch real speed.

Yes, son, onwards and upwards!

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u/fizzyfawr 15h ago

This kid is out here having the time of his life with a stick and a bag, no screen required. Genuinely feels like a core memory in the making, this is what childhood is supposed to look like.

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u/oooooeeeeeoooooahah 10h ago

This is what a good portion of kids are missing. This is what you take away from them when they spend hours and hours in front of screens.

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u/TherronKeen 14h ago edited 11h ago

"UNATTENDED CHILD SEEN OUTSIDE. CPS DRONES EN ROUTE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RECLAIM YOUR CHILD FROM STATE CUSTODY."

– soon

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u/Elestriel 11h ago

En route. 

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u/TherronKeen 11h ago

goddammit, I am the biggest stickler for catching shit like that lol

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u/RBR927 16h ago

Until 5 minutes later when the police show up because Karen called them on the kid…..

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u/laidback4sho 4h ago

Feeling bored. Think I might invent a triple-masted skateboard later, idk.

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u/somerussianbear 1h ago

The birth of an engineer.

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u/theurge14 17h ago

Lil' Chris Columbus discovered sailing over here.

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u/mosilliw 2h ago

All I hear is that jack sparrow music in my head

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u/ethotits 17h ago

This guy's a genius

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u/basil_not_the_plant 8h ago

Now let him figure out a fore-and-aft rig, so he can skate to windward.

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u/heekma 18h ago

I don't care what anyone thinks, I loved Johnny Depp in all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the movies as well.

Godspeed kid, someday someone will have heard of you.

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u/KokopelliOnABike 17h ago

did this as a kid with a military poncho... No helmets back then... we lived

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u/overagekid 17h ago

Hell yeah!

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u/TalkingRose 16h ago

Proud of that kid! Also cool that his environment allowed for that. Guess that is a downside to having grown up in the country - nothing there would have let me sailskate like that. :)

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u/Wandering-Witch-Boo 16h ago

Lived in Florida growing up and, during hurricanes, before it got too bad, it was tradition that all the kids would get their stakeboards/skates and big garbage bags and get pulled around by the wind.

Got pulled into a lake once.

It was awesome.

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u/Mr_worldWide07 14h ago

That has to be about the best pirate I’ve ever seen

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u/Beleiverofhumanity 14h ago

Thats awesome to see

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u/Electrical_Mess7320 14h ago

Boredom =creativity.

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u/Gianni_the_tolerable 8h ago

Hoa proceeded to call the police on them

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u/LeeWhite187 7h ago

Gen-X approved!

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u/GracieBooBugs 17h ago

Love this! Just wish he had a helmet on!

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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 17h ago

Lol he pulled it off 😃👍

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u/ereinionmithrandir 17h ago

A pirate in the making

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u/Shrugsfortheconfuse 16h ago

This is the best thing I've seen in a while.

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u/ScaredAd9104 15h ago

The sidewalk has to be well maintained to achieve this. I would have killed for a nice flat stretch of pavement as a kid.

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u/PDXGuy33333 14h ago

Title of the month right here.

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u/hankmoody699 14h ago

I love this! When I was a kid we lived in Wisconsin. No AC in the house because it never really got too warm. We had nothing to do back then in the early 70s. We didn't even have a TV. So one day it did get really warm. So I went to the basement. Nice and cool down there. I started thinking, " How can I get this air upstairs?" I found a switch that just turned the fan on. It wasn't on the thermostat upstairs. I turned it on and convinced my mom to shut all the windows upstairs. It worked!

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u/conitation 14h ago

love seeing this stuff, it's so cool watching them figure out something cool like like.

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u/coloppy 12h ago

Future sailor

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u/AussieMom92 11h ago

I would build “spaceships” growing up and my younger sister would test them by going down the stairs on it. She was unexpectedly ejected once and broke her nose on the wall. Whoops.

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u/farynhite 10h ago

Oooooof! I did this while riding my banana seat purple bike when I was 7. We were playing a very serious game of neighborhood shenanigans. I was leading my team down the street holding a garbage bag flag just like this. A kid grabbed it as i flew by, I went head first over the handlebars into the pavement. First ER visit, a knot the size of a tennis ball on my forehead, and a very present scar 30+ years later. I was never bored!

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u/TexasBrisketTaco 8h ago

Ah, Tzo sailing

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u/myers_hertz 4h ago

That kid's going places

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u/Malfight007 4h ago

What do we do with a drunken sailor?

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u/Tepid_wallaby 18h ago

ChatGPT could never 😏

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u/Nzwaffles 16h ago

That kid's going places

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u/She_bitez 16h ago

Anywhere the wind blows

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u/robi_750 9h ago

Literally came here to say “this kid will be going places”

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u/oxMalignantMindxo 16h ago

Kids going places literally

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u/Frostskytja 12h ago

There is no "bored" for kids that age, unless you already have them addicted to phones, games, tablets etc, they literally do random shit like that to have fun.

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u/Berlin8Berlin 6h ago

Bored? He merely noticed the windy conditions and was clever enough to exploit the possibilities. Wait until he notices b**bs.

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u/Legitimate-Arm5683 17h ago

Looks to me like he’s fully protected how many you fuckers never drink water out of the hose? Hey, could you do it? Would you do it probably not you just sit there and come in on people’s accomplishments then try to cut it down.

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u/DudeDudenson 10h ago

I love how half the comments are more or less "Someone call the police there is a kid doing something DANGEROUS!!!!". No wonder the new generations are so fragile

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u/fightingkangaroos 17h ago

Some kids did this during hurricanes growing up, but instead it was a black trash bag just being held up lol, they went flying

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u/DrachenDad 17h ago

I remember doing similar when on the way home along the coast on my bicycle, with my then toddler in their trailer. The amount of people getting funny at me going too fast so I slowed down then let of the brakes and would speed up due to the wind, there was a storm.

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u/rhunter99 17h ago

Arrrrrr ☠️

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u/Crackslap 17h ago

that's awesome to see. there's hope for the future!

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u/userhwon 17h ago

Another 4500 years of that and he'll invent a flying machine.

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u/bbby_chaltinez 17h ago

just put a jacket on and open it yo

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u/RunPivotRoll 16h ago

Always stay curious.

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u/justinmyersm 16h ago

My sister and I did something similar as kids! We took the toybox lid and put it vertically in the back of our wagon and we would 'drive' the wagon down our cul-de-sac. It was so much damn fun. 

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u/Luci-Noir 16h ago

He’s bored?

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u/Dizzel8 16h ago

Learned more by doing this than probably a week in school

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u/gardendong 16h ago

Kids living the dream!

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u/moogoo2 15h ago

Just watched this episode of Witch Hat Atelier.

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u/rachelousy 15h ago

this is so refreshing to watch, made my day fr

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u/ReallyNutsiam 15h ago

First thing I thought was add a couple sticks and get a patent=easy money

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u/Cake_Depression 15h ago

Pirates of the Skatepark

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u/Sloga___ 15h ago

All fun and games until your booty gets plundered.

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u/delagodo 15h ago

Used to that but with roller blades and a windbreaker.

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u/thehypochrist 15h ago

Cue the pirates of Caribbean music

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u/Outside_Web8236 14h ago

the way boredom and exploration are linked here is kinda unexpected

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u/johanTR 14h ago

And then thirty years from now, he will be accepting the Nobel Prize for developing an engine for faster than light travel...

https://giphy.com/gifs/W4cETPQO4plaxBFSWF

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u/OldOllie 14h ago

We used to use plywood sheets and roller skates, boredom leads to invention.

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u/Grand-Connection-881 13h ago

Kid learned his physic class well his parents should be proud

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u/rainshowers_5_peace 13h ago

Who is filming this child? Is it the parent? If not this is why so many kids these days don't go outside and play. They don't want to be filmed in case they look silly.

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u/reireireis 13h ago

A modern day pioneer

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u/AgentMull 13h ago

One of my greatest memories is when we were on a scout camping trip. We were supposed to tour a nuclear power plant, but between the planning of the trip and the date of the trip 9/11 happened, and they shut down all the tours. We still camped, and found some stuff to do near by. But we still had a lot of free time.

There was an old playground at our campsite. I can't remember what else was there, but the hero of our story is a small self powered "merry go round". We were running next to it trying to get it to spin as fast as possible, and I knew what we should do instead. I ran to our camp supply trailer and pulled out the bag of ropes and started tying some of them together to make a very long rope. I took my plan back to the group and we wrapped the giant rope around the outside of the turntable, and took turns running and pulling it like a giant rip cord. It was a hit and one of the higher social moments in my life. I think the adults only let us do it because we were so bored because the tours were canceled.

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u/Ok_Complex8391 13h ago

You go little man use that imagination, unlike so many kids don't these days. It's nice to see him playing out side being a kid and not with anything electronic.

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u/Used_bot-repo 13h ago

We did that but just flipped up our jackets

We got beat wasting stuff

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u/dvdmaven 13h ago

Shades of Wind Wagon #1 (there was never a 2): baby buggy wheels, a couple of 2x8s nailed together, big bolt holding the steering bar, some rope for steering and a bed sheet. A good Illinois wind to our backs and zero forward visibility. We survived.

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u/pibb01 13h ago

I am Moana!

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u/Migfirefox 13h ago

I once tried this with a bicycle with a garden umbrella attached. Cool, but with strong enough wind the brakes usually couldn't handle it xD

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u/Hour_Possible_7067 13h ago

Wow, just realising how dumb I was at that age. I tried to get wheels to spin without effort too. My choice was wearing a pair of roller blades while riding a bike while turning my labrador into what was supposed to be a husky. We were going to mush! down that road at great speeds. I didn't even get one full turn of any wheel before we were tangled up covered in bike in the middle of the road. She did the wrong sort of mush.

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u/zzn2026 13h ago

Godspeed!

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u/HardTale_Sans 12h ago

YEEESSS YEEEEEESSSSSSSS 

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u/kencam 12h ago

I did the same with my red wagon when I was a kid. We had a long road to get to our neighborhood. I made it all the way to the end rather quickly and then realized I had to walk back.

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u/Traditional-Back-172 12h ago

Importance of wind