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What was your favorite game to play at recess in grade school? 
Submitted by Elisheva Chana.

Well...back in those simple days of elementary school, I REALLY liked Jurassic Park and DINOSAURS.  My friend and I would spend too much time in his basement, whittling down the hours by playing with tubs full of every single officially licensed Jurassic Park action figures (i.e. jealous, but benefiting).  Now, you wouldn't normally think that this kind of thing would completely transition to the recess setting.  Maybe it could by pretending we were dinosaurs, who knows.

I guess we took things a little far.  Our playground had the standards: a swing set, a jungle gym, climbing poles, a play structure with slides...and a small hill leading up to a plateau of a grass gym field.  Countless hours were spent on that hill with chums of mine - not talking about dinosaurs, not being dinosaurs, but DIGGING for dinosaurs!!!!  Needless to say, when I was a kid I wanted to be a palentologist (among other things).  Not until we took a mighty chunk out of that good old piece of ground did the faculty notice, rush for the principal of the school, and officially have him tell us to quit it.  Well, it was good while it lasted, and within that time we did find some old chicken bones (or were they??).

As I got older, the cool thing to do was be in the swing club, where whoever had the fastest legs would reign on those pendulums next to a line of elementary school crushes...

Recently, I went back to that elementary school.  A new play structure, the same old crappy blacktop, but what remains of our dig site has been covered with a ploy to convert the area to cheap gravel stair steps, leading up to that same field.  But that doesn't bother me, because I can't think of another way I'd rather spend my recess days.