When I was a kid, an older relative had this big rubber band ball, about the size of a softball, and I thought it was so cool, that I started my own rubber band ball.
So for years, I had this subplot of adding to my rubber band ball. It eventually became bigger than a basketball, and extremely heavy since it was dense rubber. Only unusually large rubber bands could go on it, and so tracking down hyper-sized rubber bands became a task in its own right (this was largely pre-ecommerce, 1990s, thus shopping was like hunting and gathering rather than searching and clicking). Various relatives would surprise me with like $5 packs of specialized rubber bands that they happened to run into and for me that was like an A+ gift.
I try to always focus on rekindling and/or being open to that basic sense of wonder and joy in things. A kid and her large rubber bands.
Anyway, happy Sunday.
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Now this is my level of autism. I like it.
The things we do as kids. As a kid, I wondered what 10,000 looked like so I wrote down the numbers from 1-10,000.
Spending time with kids is the only way to revitalize this sense of wonder in my experience. Awesome story.
how was the bounce?
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What became of this ball?
Let’s see it.
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How far did you make it?
It was a masking tape ball for me, except I wasn’t a kid 😳
Well, kind of a sad ending actually.
When my father died, his trailer was sent for destruction, since it was the old type, and he was a hoarder. So my rubber band ball was still there in my old room, one of a million other things in the place, and it ended up in being hauled away by "Got Junk" and sent to a landfill I guess.
But it lives on in my heart!
Wow, I feel like you could write an entire short story about this ball. Thanks for sharing.
Pic or it never happened
As a kid I loved the rain. The best part was waiting a day or two after a rainstorm and going out and finding dry mud puddles. All the mud was cracking, like a puzzle piece, so I would pick them up and then try to put them back in the puddle like a puzzle. It looked very mosaic. 🙂
I grew up on wrestling teams. After each meet was over, we’d help “reclaim” the high school gym or whatever from all of the wrestling mats that had been taped together to form the arena. All of that tape formed “tape balls” that were used as some sort of rugby/football. I think about this at least twice a year. I can still smell those gyms 40 years later.
Did you ever collect cool rocks or sticks on walks as well? (Or still do... I do haha)
interesting… makes one wonder…: bowling ball size > perfect bounce size?! < one rubber band
Okay, you're going to hate me, but I absolutely have to do this. It's a song called Rubber Bands, Rubber Balls, from a cartoon called Phineas and Ferb.
Rubberband man, wild as the Taliban
Got a pic?
I got to 10,000. I remember there were 34 lines to a page. I could get six columns to a page x 2 for double-sided. So about 25 pages which I remember proudly binding the result in a yellow duotang.
I had a rubber band ball too when I was in high school. It got so large that it was heavy to carry. When I was about 15, a friend and saw it outside in the yard. There was a can of gas next to it since I was the lawn mower back then. We decided to see what would happen if we poured gas on it and lit it on fire. This was far enough from any structures and we had a water hose in hand, just in case.
I wish I were able to record it, but this was back in the days before cell phones. I'll never forget the awesome sound effects that it made as stretched rubber bands on the outside layer caught fire and melted. Pew pew peewwww POP pew pew.
So that would be my recommendation for anyone who has built up their own rubber band ball and wants to give it one last hurrah before saying goodbye to it. If you do it though, wear eye protection- burning rubber bands shooting in random directions is dangerous, especially where one could shoot into your eyes.
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that is pretty cool - never seen one of that size
it was like your first nest egg 🧶
