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Seems kind of People Sit on Chairs ("people play kick-the-can"). Is there narrative significance to playing the game? Would the effect of kick-the-can be the same if it were subbed for, say, hopscotch?
I explained; it's used as a stereotypically "old" game that kids don't see the point of and find boring. Could be used to show modern kids' short attention span, or emphasize just how boring the "good old days" really were.
The things in my dreams wish they could chase me!
The Twilight Zone (1959) also had the episode "Kick the Can" which was a particularly literal interpretation of the aphorism "You're only as old as you think you are." A bunch of people in a retirement home act more child-like in order to reclaim their youth, and magically revert to children as they play kick the can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_the_can
A game simply about kicking discarded beverage cans and other litter. Often times, it'll be a game played by old people or adults, and kids won't understand the point of it. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, middle schoolers Greg and Rowley attempt to play kick the can, but get bored after a few minutes and go back inside to play video games. In the Arthur episode "Some Assembly Required", Arthur recalls it as a game his grandparents played, and has a fantasy sequence where he runs up to a can on the street, kicks it hard... and then pauses, as if to say "Now what?" It's also referenced in The Simpsons through a script-only
Deleted Scene.