Close your eyes… And go back.
Go Back
…Before the Internet or PC or the MAC…
…Before semi-automatics and crack…
…Before Playstations, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari…
…Before Cell Phones, CD’s - DVD’s – Voicemail and E-mail…
…Go way back …way…way…way back…
I’m talking’ about hide and seek at dusk – Red Light, Green Light; Red Rover…
Red Rover…
Playing kickball & dodge ball until the first – no… second – no …third light came on.
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot Potato
Hop Scotch
Jump Rope
You’re it!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home – no pagers or cell phones.
Take One Giant Step….May I?
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open.
The sound of crickets
Running through the sprinkler
Cereal boxes with that Great toy in the bottom
Cracker Jacks with the same thing.
Ice Pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend.
But Wait – There’s more
Watching Saturday Morning cartoons – Tom & Jerry, serial adventures,
Captain Midnight – Cisco Kid – The Lone Ranger – Boston Blackie
Catching lighting bugs in a jar
Christmas morning
Your First day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing Trees
Swinging as high as you could in those long swings to try and reach the sky
A million mosquito bites
Sticky fingers
Jumping down the steps
Jumping on the bed
Pillow Fights
Running home from the western movie you just saw ‘til you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING
WORK: meant taking out the garbage, cutting the grass, washing the car, or doing the dishes
Your first crush
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN
Rainy days at school and the smell of damp concrete and chalk erasers
Oh, I’m not finished yet
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
So was a swig from the garden hose
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars of your bike (If your parents could afford to buy you one)
Attaching pieces of cardboard to your bike frame to rub against the spokes to make a muffler sound
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class Field Trips with soggy sandwiches (Tuna sandwiches that were put in your locker for 4 hours in the heat and you did not get sick)
When nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kid’s got there from school
When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance and another quarter a MIRACLE
When ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use him to carry Groceries… And nobody, not even the Kid, thought a thing of it.
When your parents took you to the cafeteria and it was a real treat.
When being sent to the principal’s office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you at home
Basically, we were in fear of our lives but it wasn’t because of drive by shooting, drugs, gangs, etc. We simply did not want our parents to get mad at us.
Didn’t that feel good? Just to go back and say, “Yeah, I remember that!” Well, let’s keep going!!!
Let’s go back to the time when…
Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-mo”
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “do over!”
“Race issues” meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn’t odd to have two or three “best” friends
The worst thing you could catch for the opposite sex was cooties
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by Mom and made better
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true
Abilities were discovered because of a ‘double-dog-dare”
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived during a more pleasant simpler time!!
I wonder how many of you that I have sent this to remember all of these things. I know some of you are my vintage.
Those of you who remember will have lived in an era that no one else will ever experience. The era has passed and slowly those of us who lived it are passing also. If you do not remember, then ask your parents, grandparents, or great grand parents. We went from radio to the stars. Your era is here, be part of it. Make it worthwhile for future generations to build on. Keep God in your lives.
We didn't HAVE to lock any locks
Everyone respected other folk's stuff....
we knew our neighbors and their families...
we watched out for eachother.....
Every home had the same skeleton key that fit you door and your neighbors door a mile away. We would go on vacation for 2 weeks and not lock up the home and nobody stole or touch anything.
I'm 71 and I remember ALL OF IT!!!!
I haven't seen a lighting bug in Warren MI in over 40 years! My S-I-Law in Chicago (near North Side) still sees them but we don"t have 'em around here any more. grimmye
I'm 71 and I remember ALL OF IT!!!!
I haven't seen a lighting bug in Warren MI in over 40 years! My S-I-Law in Chicago (near North Side) still sees them but we don"t have 'em around here any more. grimmye
Maybe you kids in Warren didn't poke enough holes in the lids of those pickle jars and wiped out the entire species!! Those bugs were so thick on a summer night they would streak the windshield with yellow green glowing stripes on the way home from the lake.
Great memories; I remember them all except no fire flies in So. Cal. It sure sounds like many of us are getting "mature"; (as opposed to getting "old")
Dont forget Winky Dink on Saturdays..right after Howdy Doody! LOL I remember the test pattern, it was an Indian Chief in full feather headress.. A transparent green plastic was put on the screen and we used crayons to draw secret messeges from Winky Dink. No color TV yet..
Last edited by Beach potato : 05-09-2008 at 06:20 AM.
Some of us didn't even have in door plumming at all the relatives homes. Had to use the half moon house up that was down wind from the home.
Yea - with the spider, snakes, rats, rabbit, raccoons and any other creature that wanted to have a place to sleep at night. Just remember to take a flashlight and stick to run around the seat hole to scare anything away. And those cold wet night having to go in the middle of the night when you were a small kid and scared to death to go by yourself to the outhouse.
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Those bugs were so thick on a summer night they would streak the windshield with yellow green glowing stripes on the way home from the lake.
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A transparent green plastic was put on the screen and we used crayons to draw secret messeges from Winky Dink. No color TV yet..
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