When I Was Just A Little Boy 1
Here’s the beginning of a mini series of my childhood. Feel free to add on!
Shooting Erasers
Or rather, ε°θΆζ¦ as we commonly call it, is a little game that we play in class, with each other’s new found “ink rubber”, i.e. the eraser that we use to erase ink (which we actually don’t need as all work was written on pencil). This is an ink rubber:
The point of the game is to overlap one ink rubber on top of your opponent’s.
To do so, one must maneuver the ink rubber by “shooting”. Place the tip of your second finger on top of the third to act as a spring for the third finger that would shoot from underneath the triangular tip of the eraser.
In our version, we used the normal pencil rubbers, and they should ideally be new or almost new. Instead of ‘shooting’, we would press on one edge of the rubber so that it topples over. The aim is the same – to overlap on an opponent’s. I had a whole collection of these rubbers, with country flag prints no less =)
oooo – you kept the country flag ones! my mother wouldn’t let me buy (after all I had flags already at home on a wall)
the problem with my class is that they won’t use the flag one to play the pressing thing because of a winners keepers thing related only the collectibles. Some will lose their only rubber to a competition like this.
Wow! Your post brings back so much nostalgia to me. And your childhood play was quite similar to mine, meaning we are in the same generation!? π Ok, I am not that old after all (or you are just as old like me after all?).