Playing in the neighborhood had its own fashions. Sometimes we played hide and seek and others we did shopping. Depending...
Those days, boys used to play indians and cowboys, whith archs, arrows and shotguns they made with wood and cord.
- May I play?
- Ok. You can be the mother: make our weapons and cook our food.
- I don't wanna be the mother!
- Ok, so you can be an indian other a cowgirl... But you gotta make your own weapons.
- I don't wanna be an indian other a cowgirl!
- So you cannot play!
- Why?
- This game is just like this!
- But I wanna be a Viking! Vikings were in America before cowboys!
Those days, boys used to play indians and cowboys, whith archs, arrows and shotguns they made with wood and cord.
- May I play?
- Ok. You can be the mother: make our weapons and cook our food.
- I don't wanna be the mother!
- Ok, so you can be an indian other a cowgirl... But you gotta make your own weapons.
- I don't wanna be an indian other a cowgirl!
- So you cannot play!
- Why?
- This game is just like this!
- But I wanna be a Viking! Vikings were in America before cowboys!
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