Are you old enough to remember Those were the days....
Take a moment to go back in time...
Before the Internet or the PC
Before semi automatics, heroin and crack
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back....
I'm talking about hide and seek at dusk.
One potato, two potato, three potato, four.
The cornershop.
Hopscotch, kiss chasey, elastics, jacks, kickball,dodgeball.
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops.
Running through the sprinkler.
Milk moustaches.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night - chocolate vanilla or strawberry.
Sunday Night TV was one word..Disneyland
Remember...
A million mosquito bites around your ankles.
Sticky fingers.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath.
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was funny.
Being tired from playing.... remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
I'm not finished just yet...
Eating Milo from the tin
Remember when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys and the only time you wore them at school, was for "PE"
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When a twenty cents was decent pocket money, and another twenty cents a miracle.
When milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks?
When nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got there.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and did!
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah,I remember that!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "Eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
Worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "germs".
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
Re: Are you old enough to remember
I am old enough to remember most of your list but because I am from the UK there are probably some of the things with different names.
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Re: Are you old enough to remember
Gee, I remember most of those.
Firefires at dusk
Waiting for the ice cream man
Playing statues or cigarettes or colors
When allowance was 25 cents and that was good money!
hunting for pop bottles, because the regular ones could be redeemed for 2 cents each and the big ones for 5 cents each
Taking the bus to Carnegie Library, and coming home with 10 books, the maximum.
doing fun stuff for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter in school (they don't let them do much anymore *sigh*, too frelling "offensive")
Halloween! Dressing up and getting a pillowcase full of BIG candy. Popcorn balls, cracker jax, candy apples
Christmas lights! Carefully budgeting with my brother so that we could buy folks gifts
Downtown Pittsburgh (Kaufmann's) decorated for Christmas. The special windows with figurines and freezing our a*sses off going to see them.
Streetcars!
going swimming in the summer and getting burnt and never thinking of sunblock (heck, the real tan-hounds put baby oil on themselves)
last day of school..FREE for the summer
First day of school - new clothes, new supplies
Autumn leaves and buckeyes on the ground
Crickets
Ah, the memories of childhood
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Re: Are you old enough to remember
Who here has been disappointed when they have seen something as an adult that they loved as a child/
My sister had a wonderful 'Wizard of OZ' that I adored as a child. I thought it was the most beautiful book I had ever seen. The pictures were divine IMO.
Anyway I recently mentioned it to my sister. She said she still had the book and gave it to me. I was very disappointed by the book. I didn't think it was anywhere near as lovely as I remembered.
"Well, I wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."-- Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in HARVEY
Re: Are you old enough to remember
I disagree with the book thing. I found a really old Cinderella book I had had when I was 10. There was one page I loved and it was when Cinderella received her new ball gown. The artist's rendition of it had intensified for me over the years. The gossomer gown was more beautiful.
**sun glints off her golden hide as she passes between**
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