Nothing political here, just nice thoughts, if you’re old enough.
Close your eyes……and go back….
…..before the internet, or PC or the MAC….
Before semi-automatics and crack
Before Play Station, Sega, Super Nintendo, even Atari
Beore cell phones, CD’s, DVD’s, voice mail and E-mail
…..way back…..way…way… way back…..
I’m talking about hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light
Red rover….red rover
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot Potato
Jump rope
Duck….duck…..GOOSE
Kickball
Whiffle ball
YOU’RE IT!!!
When getting a gun meant a Roy Rogers or Gene Autry cap pistol or if you were at least 12 a Red Ryder B.B gun
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for
You to come home-no cell phones or pagers
Mother may I?
Hula Hoops
When it took the TV 5 minutes to warm up
Party lines on telephones
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A\C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets, frogs and whip-poor-wills
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…….theres more…….
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
Watching Sunday morning oldies(Abbott andCostello, 3 Stooges)
Wonder Woman & Superman underoos
Catching lightning bugs in a jar
Catching Minnows and Crawdads out of the creek
Christmas mornings
Your first day of school
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting ice cream off the Good Humor truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin’ down the steps
Jumpin’ on the bed
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 trash 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 7 up or Hangman
In the classroom….remember that?
Oh….I’m not finished yet…..
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Kool Aid was the drink of summer
So was a swig from the hose
Giving your friends 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 their kids got there
When a quarter seemed like an 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 principals 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 them
Didn’t that feel good? Just to go back and say,“Yeah, I remember that!”
Well, lets keep going!!!
Ler’s go back to the time when….
Decisions were made by going”eeny-meeny-miney -mo”
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn’t odd enough to have 2 or 3 “best” friends
Being old, referred to anyone over 20(CRAP! I’m, officially OLD!)
The worst thing you 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 parks
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 the team
Water ballons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon
Older siblings were your worst tormentors , but also your fiercest protector
Drive in movies
Orange Nehi
Riding in the back of a pickup
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have
LIVED!!!!
Close your eyes……and go back….
…..before the internet, or PC or the MAC….
Before semi-automatics and crack
Before Play Station, Sega, Super Nintendo, even Atari
Beore cell phones, CD’s, DVD’s, voice mail and E-mail
…..way back…..way…way… way back…..
I’m talking about hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light
Red rover….red rover
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot Potato
Jump rope
Duck….duck…..GOOSE
Kickball
Whiffle ball
YOU’RE IT!!!
When getting a gun meant a Roy Rogers or Gene Autry cap pistol or if you were at least 12 a Red Ryder B.B gun
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for
You to come home-no cell phones or pagers
Mother may I?
Hula Hoops
When it took the TV 5 minutes to warm up
Party lines on telephones
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A\C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets, frogs and whip-poor-wills
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…….theres more…….
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
Watching Sunday morning oldies(Abbott andCostello, 3 Stooges)
Wonder Woman & Superman underoos
Catching lightning bugs in a jar
Catching Minnows and Crawdads out of the creek
Christmas mornings
Your first day of school
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting ice cream off the Good Humor truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin’ down the steps
Jumpin’ on the bed
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 trash 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 7 up or Hangman
In the classroom….remember that?
Oh….I’m not finished yet…..
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Kool Aid was the drink of summer
So was a swig from the hose
Giving your friends 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 their kids got there
When a quarter seemed like an 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 principals 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 them
Didn’t that feel good? Just to go back and say,“Yeah, I remember that!”
Well, lets keep going!!!
Ler’s go back to the time when….
Decisions were made by going”eeny-meeny-miney -mo”
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn’t odd enough to have 2 or 3 “best” friends
Being old, referred to anyone over 20(CRAP! I’m, officially OLD!)
The worst thing you 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 parks
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 the team
Water ballons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon
Older siblings were your worst tormentors , but also your fiercest protector
Drive in movies
Orange Nehi
Riding in the back of a pickup
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have
LIVED!!!!
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