Yes, a stick. As in a trimmed (with your own pocket knife) tree branch.
I just saw a twelve year old (or so) boy walking down my street with a stick!
All us kids, mostly boys, sometimes would pick up a suitable tree branch, trim it, and carry it around while hanging with our friends. It was good for swatting things, making lines in the dirt, pointing at dumb kids across the way, and all sorts of stuff like that.
Also sword fighting, but that could get you yelled at.
Best part is that it was expendable. If you had it at the top of a high cliff, you could throw it as far as possible and no loss. Just make another one.
Have video games also meant the death of the stick? Boo! 
Peace,
mangeorge
Always. Though my kid never will if we stay here in the desert :(.
I had one.
Oh, I had a lot of sticks. They never lasted very long, an important part in stick use involved the dog hanging from it.
Whatcha mean as a kid? I STILL have a stick like that in my closet. I made it a few years ago. Just as much fun as I remember. 
Yes, I had a stick. 12 seems a little old from one. I’m thinking more like 7 or 8.
Not for me. I had one from 7 or 8 like you say, then on up past 12 and up until I got my 1st car, I think.
It has been a while. Maybe it’s time for a relapse, like A Spoonful of Awesome up there.
Wll, as an adult, you can afford a much better stick. 
And you can carry a much bigger one.
Which reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt – maybe he meant that literally, instead of metaphorically like the historians say. Teddy was a pretty direct guy. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he had a big whuppin’ stick.
Hehe, I had sticks as a kid. I’d make one every scout camp. Last year, when I was in Student accommodation halls, we used to go out into the surrounding woods, get drunk and sing songs around a camp fire. I was still whittling spears out of sticks then!
As a boy I was fortunate enough to live at the bottom of a logging main line road. I had free run of hundreds of acres of NW forest. Made sling shots, spears, forts, all kinds of stuff. Made some cash peeling cascara bark.
I still live in the same spot but I only go into the forest in the fall hunting seasons now.
Oh yes, my thinking was you needed a weapon if attacked by dogs or other villenous creatures. I still carry the adult version when I take a walk from time to time. Something like this.
Absolutely. I had several through the years. They’d usually last a day or two, then we’d break it and it would be a while until we found the next one.
Yes. I still occasionally like a walking stick and I am middle aged. And, FWIW, I don’t use a walking stick like a cane.
When I got a dog I had a good excuse for finding and “twigging” good sticks.
Reminds me of the old chestnut: What’s brown and sticky?
…random thoughts on sticks.
Going in, or coming out?
Wait, that’s a different one.
I don’t believe that I really had A stick. I remember playing with sticks, though. I also used to cut honeysuckle vines, peel off the outer layer, and shape them into various things. Fresh honeysuckle vines are quite pliable. I had several stones that I played with regularly.
And my dad worked at a company that made boxes, and he’d occasionally bring boxes home for us kids. We had LOTS of fun with boxes.
I used to have a length of PVC pipe that I’d use for pointing and dirt-drawing. Does that count?
Hundreds of them over the years when I was roaming through the neighboring woods with friends.
Of course, whenever my mother or father would get pissed off at me for one reason or another and say, “Go get me that stick!” it was never a good thing…
Sure! And you can use it as a blow gun with grapes or chinaberries. But don’t shoot at a board. You’ll put your eye out.
I had several ( whenever one broke I was quick to acquire another). Naturally I favoured those which would bend a long way without breaking, while being as long as possible. I loved being able to either make a magnificent thrashing sound against something solid, or slice the tops off a row of long grass with ease. I also like to think I had particularly good skill in finding high quality ‘sticks’
Yup, I did. My daughter does too sometimes.