What was your favorite playground activity?

Chasing tumbleweeds. I went to several different elementary schools and one was particularly awful. I hated that school, but during the windy season (SoCal's famed Santa Anas) we would somehow have giant tumbleweeds on the playground.

We used to drag these tumbleweeds against the wind, all the way across the field, and line up along the fence at one end. Some tumbleweeds were as tall as the sixth graders, and it would take a dozen kids or more to move them, perhaps just three or four people for the smaller ones.

Then we would let them all go at the same time and run after them.

It was always incredible, and probably the only time students would play together happily as a large group. Seemingly the entire school got involved in this game. Clothes and hands were always ripped up, little kids were crushed occasionally. We loved it.