Kick the
Can
I was 10
years going on 11 years when my mind exploded and I discovered that girls did more that play
skipping ropes & peever, there was one, no !! two girls I was in love with, one from 4 Irwin
St, the only trouble was, she didn’t like me, so it went like this “ Will you be my girl-friend“ and she would
reply “ Shove off “, there was another beautiful lass from 1 Smillie St, “ Will
you be my girl friend “ Sure “ she said,
so I was made up
Now about 10
to 15 of us would play Kick the Can, when it was dark, no good during daylight,
all we needed was one empty can, no problem, everybody stand up against the
wall, and one of us would choose, “ eeny, meeny, manny, mo, iccy, picky, Julio,
ricky, umpum, pine, ease, and so on till the end Tea sugar and marmalade, tea
sugar your out
So he was the
searcher, the can was placed in the middle of the street between 2 & 4 Irwin
Street, the object of the game, the can was tossed as far away as possible,
every one ran to find a hiding spot. Whilst the searcher went to get the can and
place it in the street, he would go and hunt for everyone, if he caught you, it
was your turn to be searcher, everyone headed for the Middens, now a Midden was
part of the houses, big enough for 2 dust- bins side by side, enough room either
side and at the back, about 4 or 5 feet high, now these 2 dust bins served 6
houses, everyone had a fire, so there were ashes in plenty plus house hold
rubbish, I told the story, when I had a
drink or two
Mother…”
Billy Sinclair, what are you doing in that midden “
Me…” I’m
doing dirty things to wee Maggie from number 6 Mammy “
Mother…!
“ That’s all right son, I thought you
were smoking “
only trouble
was my wee sister was repeating my story to someone in a pub in Dereham, and the
woman's sister was standing beside her, only trouble was she named the lass,
embarrassed, serves her rightYou could be in those
Middens, for ages, and if you were with your girl friend, you didn’t want to be
found, if all were occupied around Irwin, you might find a vacant one in
Landsbury Street, I think that was where I learned to kiss. WOW, brilliant
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