# Did you have a "stick" as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966 "2009-05-10T20:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966/61 "2009-05-12T00:41:56Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It precluded me from needing to _keep_ one. I could just find a new one each time I set out. Gocha! ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966/62 "2009-05-12T01:09:07Z")
I just learned that my grown daughter has a stick. Her son, my grandson 🙂 found it at the beach and gave it to her. He called it her “love stick”. I’m very proud of him. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966/63 "2009-05-12T12:17:15Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > my grandson 🙂 found it at the beach and gave it to her. He called it her “love stick”. I’m very proud of him. Thus far, we have avoided the lurking danger of the double entendre. Let’s be careful with our anecdotes, ok! 😃 I was reminded that I used to live near a pond and a swamp where we found a half of a sailboat. There were sticks for poking things – like frogs – in the water and I also had a pole for pushing the sailboat around the swamp, usually with me and another person on it. There were many sticks, cut and fine tuned with a cub scout knife TYVM, but the pole lived with the sailboat at the “dock.” ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966/64 "2009-05-12T12:39:21Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > Thus far, we have avoided the lurking danger of the double entendre. Let’s be careful with our anecdotes, ok! 😃 > > I was reminded that I used to live near a pond and a swamp where we found a half of a sailboat. There were sticks for poking things – like frogs – in the water and I also had a pole for pushing the sailboat around the swamp, usually with me and another person on it. > > There were many sticks, cut and fine tuned with a cub scout knife TYVM, but the pole lived with the sailboat at the “dock.” Maybe we should be careful with our interpretations? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966/65 "2009-05-12T13:13:27Z")
Last night, as a result of this thread, I went for a walk in the woods. I used my pocketknife to cut myself a proper stick from a hickory tree. With the first brandish, I felt the years fall away from me. I waved it. I poked some rotting logs with it. I whacked some skunk cabbage with it to hear the whickersnap and smell the rising stench. At the conclusion of my walk, I sidearmed it as hard as I could out over the lake. Sticks are wonderful things. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966/66 "2009-05-12T19:01:09Z")
I was not allowed to carry a knife, but I always had a stick. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966/67 "2009-05-12T19:15:01Z")
I didn’t have a stick. I was of the one use throw away crowd when it came to sticks. I had lots of sticks everywhere I was. I did however try carving at one time and decide it wasn’t for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-stick-as-a-kid/495966.md?page=3)