Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Remember When?
AH, SUCH SWEET MEMORIES!
Just for a second, close your eyes ... And go back...
.Before the Internet or PC or the MAC......
.Before semi-automatics and crack....
.Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before
Atari...
.Before ce ll phones, CD's, DVD's, voicemail and e-mail....
.way back...
.way.....way....way back.....
I'm talkin' bout hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light
Red Rover....Red Rover.....
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first ... no ...
second, no, third streetlight came on
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot potato
Hop Scotch 
Jump rope
Duck....duck....GOOSE!!!
YOU'RE IT!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for
you to come home - no pagers or cell phones
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops
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 prize 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....
Watchin' Saturday Morning TV.... Roy Rogers, Sky King,
Lone
Ranger
Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three
Stooges) 
Shirley Temple movies, Little Rascals, Ma & Pa Kettle
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
Christmas morning
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting an Ice Cream from Mr. Softee
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin' on the bed (and getting hit with the yard stick when
the bed broke)
Pillow fights 
Sleep-overs
Runnin' till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING
WORK: meant taking out the garbage 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 meant playing "Heads up 7UP" or hangman"
in The classroom, Remember that?
Oh, I'm not finished yet....
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
So was a swig from the hose
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class Field Trips with soggy sandwiches
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got
there.
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 being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited you 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! And
some of us are still afraid of em!
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.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in
"monopoly"
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over 20. (CRAP! I'm officially
old!)
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
cooties.
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made
better
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big
people" rides at the amusement park.
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.
Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your
fiercest protector.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have
LIVED!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown
up" life .....
I TRIPLE DOG DARE YA!!!!!!
This did make me smile...at the simplicity of era I was raised in...then it made me a little sad to realize that alot of the things on this list my kids had never experienced. Being raised in the age of 'technology' isn't necessarily all good. I'm sure, due to the fact that we live in such a rural area, that my kids experienced more of these things then alot...but still NOT nearly enough...That's kinda sad. What will it be like for my grandchildren?
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