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From: Mother in Law
Date: 03-09-2003, 10:43 PM (1 of 7)
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Close your eyes...And go back in time Before semi automatics and crack... Before SEGA or Super Nintendo... Way back...I'm talking about Hide and seek at dusk. Red light, green light. The corner store. Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, Jacks, kickball, dodgeball. Mother May I... Red Rover and Roly Poly. Hula Hoops. Running through the sprinkler. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night... Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan. Wait... Watching Saturday Morning cartoons... Short commercials. Fat Albert, Road Runner, The Three Stooges, and Bugs. Or back further... When around the corner seemed far away, And going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro. Climbing trees, building igloos out of snow banks 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... Being tired from playing...Remember that? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. War was a card game. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. I'm not finished just yet... When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped without asking, for free, every time... and, you didn't pay for air. When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one. 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 girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. 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." Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!" "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare." If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from "grown up" life... I DOUBLE DOG DARE YA!!! |
User: Mother in Law
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From: shirleyp
Date: 03-10-2003, 12:34 AM (2 of 7)
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Oh the memories. Do you remember when you had a penny you could buy some candy. Now you need a quarter for one. Shirley |
User: shirleyp
Member since: 02-12-2002 Total posts: 352 
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From: MissMinx
Date: 03-10-2003, 03:56 AM (3 of 7)
 Yeah, I remember….When ‘Delivering milk’ meant the milkman throwing a frozen disk (1 litre of frozen milk without a wrapper) into the snow in your front yard that took you a whole hour to find…. When ice cream came only in one flavour…. Getting to school meant walking for hours to the next village across the birch forest…. Spotting a wolf or a bear because you found their favourite berry bush…. When you thought the next big town was the ‘world’…. Sailing across Atlantic in a fantastic storm and not missing Barbados….. Gee… and I loved every minute of it all! 
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User: MissMinx
Member since: 02-14-2003 Total posts: 140 |
From: Mother in Law
Date: 03-10-2003, 11:32 AM (4 of 7)
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I remember the penny could buy lots of things and now most all it can do is accumalate in your purse and make it weight more. The milkman use to deliver creole cream cheese which was a breakfast staple at our house. And the milk came in glass quart containers with a cordboard pull top and a foil outer cap. I remember these little sun suits I loved to wear that tied at the shoulders and had elastic around the waste and the bottom was elastic around the top of your thighs. I remember gasoline cost around 20 cents a gal. and my mom could buy a two weeks supply of groceries for around $30.00. I also remember that when the teacher told you something you did was wrong your parents took the teachers side. And if a neighbor told your parents you were bad you were in trouble. Oh if only we could go back to the "Good Ole Days" Life was much harder but it was nicer I think. |
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From: Magot
Date: 03-10-2003, 12:19 PM (5 of 7)
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I still play hopscotch, conkers, tag, lie in a field full of grass and listen to the skylarks rising, go for long walks at midnight through the snow, suck ice cream out through the bottom of the cone, slurp jelly through my teeth, make volcanos with mashed potatos and gravy, and stop small boys pinging each other with elastic bands, kick through drifts of autumn leaves, have snowball fights, have leaf fights come to that, turn on the hose in summer and run under it in my swimming costume... why grow up, live life to the full (my daughter tells me that I'm only 11 really) love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 03-11-2003, 01:32 AM (6 of 7)
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I guess I have lived since I remember most if not all of the memories . As a kid I use to walk to the corner market and collect bottles along the way and have enough money to buy a drink and a bag full of penny candy. Played dodgeball and double dutch at recess at school. Gee, do they still have recess at school anymore?
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: Magot
Date: 03-11-2003, 09:39 AM (7 of 7)
Where do you think I have all these leaf fights, hopscotch games and skipping - though I'm not very good at running in and out of the rope anymore. I never could manage two ball up the wall. Remember how there would always be a line of upside down girls showing their knickers or maybe things are different in England..
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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