Up to no Good? by junge1
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These two boys were trying to remove the stone plate from the hole on the quay at Vaiare, Moorea.
Watching them while waiting for the ferry it brought back memories of my chilhood in Germany. We were dressed like this also, except we wore no flip-flops. We were running around barefoot from March-April until September, weather permitting.
We had no TV, no radio, and no store-bought toys, but we were never bored. We depended on each other for entertainment and used the seasons to provide useable resources.
I am sure that the numerous older women, widows from WWII, that lurked behind their curtains watching us every day, often asked themselves the same question, 'Up to no Good?'
Many times they reported our misdeeds to our parents along with the complaints.
Thinking back now, my parents were pretty cool. They normally knew the complainant, analysed past experiences with them, considered the fresh complaint, gave us the appropriated counselling, and the next day we were back out there doing either the same or similar deeds.
The trick we learned from the complaints, stay out of sight of the spies, if possible.
Those were the times, never bored, and lean and mean. No fast food.
This picture was taken on 14 August 2009.
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Sig...
Comments (31)
....genau so war es! Nettes Foto zu Deinem Bericht!
they will be boys! EXCELLENT
wonderful shot
Ah yes the joys of childhood! I remember them well. Great photo and thanks for bringing back those great memories
Sig I looked just like these boys at that age and I too would have been up to No Good. Corn Mush was a treat and not near as lean as you were in Germany at the time. We had to make our own entertainment and life was as good as we made it.! Nice shot and once again taking advantage of being at the right place at the right time. Well Done
yes indeed,in luxembourg was the same,although i came a little later born in 1955 but it was the same era.
They are so natural..great capture! :)
Beautiful shot.
They look like they're having a wonderful time! Nice capture.
cool shots of memorys of the past
Amazing!
Great shot!!!
Facinating! nothing changes much.
Great Capture !!!
splendid work! great presentation!
beautiful, love the textures, colors and lighting excellent work
My childhood was much the same as far as the playing with friends without all the creature comforts. I often marvel at today's youth who complain (house full of toys, games, computers, tvs, etc) how bored they are with nothing to do. We always found fun things to do. Maybe in having things you lose something. :O)
So cool to see boys being boys ....sooo many kids , where i live, are into nothing but tv , pc games / video games ....wheres the exercise and self imagination??
You have caught these two red handed and I guess they had a reason to do it. As you say, 'boys will be boys'. Lovely capture.
Excellent capture of those boys
Great capture, well done, these to doing typical boys stuff!!
Beautiful capture! Very rich color to match their vitality.
And we were happy...just like these two boys seem to be. Thanks for the shot and for bringing back memories of the past.
Fantastic capture!!
Ha! Boys will be boys! Great one... Rob
nice portrait of these two boys and nice story :-)
excellent capture
funny how things triggers memories of our childhood and as if it was yesterday.very candid shot
fantastic shot sig!
Excellent capture my friend.thank you for sharing your child Hood memories.