"When I Was a Child There Was this Game We Used to Play" by AR from the Turning Point of Windham County in Brattleboro, VT.

When I was a child there was this game we would play…my siblings and I would collect leaves, stack them and call them money. We would create little gas stations on the property where we could stop with our bikes and get gas and oil from one another. Of course we would pay with our nature money. I love to think of how much fun we had due to our imaginations. At first we were using water as our fake gas, but our grandmother noticed us dumping water all over our bikes and bike chains and came to our rescue. She gave us a little oil canister. Our bikes chains much preferred this over the water that only led to rust. Thank God for Grandma.