syd
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The "Signs of being over 25" post brought this on.
Remember back before the internet and the Mac, before semi automatics, joyriders and crack. Before super nintendo or Sega...Way back..
Hide and seek in the woods, the big shops, hopscotch, butterscotch, skipping, handstands, football with an old can, farmer farmer, Beano, Dandy, Hula hoops, jumping the stream, building dams, the smell of the sun and fresh cut grass, Bazooka Joe bubble gum, an ice cream on a warm evening from the van that plays the tune, a ninety nine,a popeye, oyster or wafer, "ICECREAM MAN, MUM"
Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials, The double deckers, Road Runner, He Man, Swapshop, Blue Peter, Magpie, Why don't you, HOW. Stingray on sunday evening.
When around the corner seemed a long way away, and going into town seemed like really going somewhere. A million mosquito bites, wasps, bee stings, spit face washes from mum, "You wait til your father gets home". Sticky fingers, cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, Zorro, Batman and Robin, Climbing trees, building igloos out of snow banks, snow at christmas, walking to school no matter what the weather, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard your stomach hurt, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down then trying to get up. Being tired from just playing,,, Remember that ??
The worst embarrasment was being picked last for a game. Water filled balloons were the ultimate weapon, Football cards in the spokes transfomed any bike into a motorcycle.
I'm not finished yet...
Eating raw jelly blocks, Orange squash, Ice pops and Jubblies. Remember when there were just three types of trainers, boys ones girls ones and American Baseball boots. The only time you wore them at school was for gym.
You knew everyone in your street and so did your parents, it wasn't odd to have two or three best friends, You never slept a wink on Christmas Eve. When nobody owned a pure bred dog. When 50p was a decent allowance. When you wouldn't think twice of reaching into a muddy gutter for a penny. Nearly everyones mum was home when the kids got there.
It really was magic when dad would remove his thumb. When it was a great privelige to be taken out to dinner at a restaurant with your parents. When any parent could discipline any kid, Or feed any kid or use him to carry the shopping and nobody, not even the kid thought a thing of it. When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to your fate when you got home.
Basically we were in fear of our lives, but it wasn't from drive by shootings, gangs, drugs etc, our grandparents were a much greater threat. and some of us are still afraid of them. Doesn't that feel good? Just to 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 banker in Monopoly. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs, and the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
Its unbelievable that games like dodge ball or statues were not made an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school was being caught with your catapault.
Nobody was prettier than mum or bigger than dad.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better, Taking drugs meant Orange flavoured chewable Aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group, Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true, Abillities were discovered because of a Double Dare, Older brothers or sisters were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these then like me you have LIVED!
Read this when you fancy a break from your "grown up" lives.
I DOUBLE DARE YA !
Syd
Remember back before the internet and the Mac, before semi automatics, joyriders and crack. Before super nintendo or Sega...Way back..
Hide and seek in the woods, the big shops, hopscotch, butterscotch, skipping, handstands, football with an old can, farmer farmer, Beano, Dandy, Hula hoops, jumping the stream, building dams, the smell of the sun and fresh cut grass, Bazooka Joe bubble gum, an ice cream on a warm evening from the van that plays the tune, a ninety nine,a popeye, oyster or wafer, "ICECREAM MAN, MUM"
Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials, The double deckers, Road Runner, He Man, Swapshop, Blue Peter, Magpie, Why don't you, HOW. Stingray on sunday evening.
When around the corner seemed a long way away, and going into town seemed like really going somewhere. A million mosquito bites, wasps, bee stings, spit face washes from mum, "You wait til your father gets home". Sticky fingers, cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, Zorro, Batman and Robin, Climbing trees, building igloos out of snow banks, snow at christmas, walking to school no matter what the weather, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard your stomach hurt, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down then trying to get up. Being tired from just playing,,, Remember that ??
The worst embarrasment was being picked last for a game. Water filled balloons were the ultimate weapon, Football cards in the spokes transfomed any bike into a motorcycle.
I'm not finished yet...
Eating raw jelly blocks, Orange squash, Ice pops and Jubblies. Remember when there were just three types of trainers, boys ones girls ones and American Baseball boots. The only time you wore them at school was for gym.
You knew everyone in your street and so did your parents, it wasn't odd to have two or three best friends, You never slept a wink on Christmas Eve. When nobody owned a pure bred dog. When 50p was a decent allowance. When you wouldn't think twice of reaching into a muddy gutter for a penny. Nearly everyones mum was home when the kids got there.
It really was magic when dad would remove his thumb. When it was a great privelige to be taken out to dinner at a restaurant with your parents. When any parent could discipline any kid, Or feed any kid or use him to carry the shopping and nobody, not even the kid thought a thing of it. When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to your fate when you got home.
Basically we were in fear of our lives, but it wasn't from drive by shootings, gangs, drugs etc, our grandparents were a much greater threat. and some of us are still afraid of them. Doesn't that feel good? Just to 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 banker in Monopoly. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs, and the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
Its unbelievable that games like dodge ball or statues were not made an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school was being caught with your catapault.
Nobody was prettier than mum or bigger than dad.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better, Taking drugs meant Orange flavoured chewable Aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group, Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true, Abillities were discovered because of a Double Dare, Older brothers or sisters were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these then like me you have LIVED!
Read this when you fancy a break from your "grown up" lives.
I DOUBLE DARE YA !
Syd
