Old Enough to Remember

maudeispam · 09-14-2006, 10:30 AM

We're all old enough to remember.....

Some of you are not fortunate enough to know what most of this is...

AHHHHHHHHHH MEMORIES!!!

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 cell 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

Happy Meals

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 cartoons

Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man,

Schoolhouse Rock

Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)

Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos

FONZIE.....AYYYYYYYY

Playing Dukes of Hazard

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 off the Good Humor Truck

A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers

Jumpin' down the steps

Jumpin' on the bed

Pillow fights

Sleep-overs

A 13" black and white TV in your room meant you were RICH

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 your parents took you to McDonalds and you were COOL

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!!!!!!

lisah25 · 09-14-2006, 10:37 AM

What a great trip down memory lane - Thanks!

leatha_g · 09-14-2006, 10:45 AM

God bless our world.. yes, I remember..

Mrs Husker · 09-14-2006, 10:48 AM

I remember all of this and have tried to keep the memory alive in my kids by playing some of the same games with them.
But what about fishing? Swimming in the lake? We would ride our bikes 13 miles outside of town just to drown a few worms or go swimming. I have tears in my eyes remembering it.
But my kids are lucky, we still have the ice cream truck!!!!

Josette · 09-14-2006, 11:11 AM

The ice cream truck in the neighborhood I grew up in is scary!!! hahaha.
I remember back when I was a child we'd go to mcdonalds like once a month and it was a big deal! Me and my brother would walk around the block to the corner store and buy a case of pepsi that was 8 glass bottles and we'd take turns carrying it because the cardboard handle would cut into our hands and when we got home our mom would let us split a bottle during dinner and we'd take turns taking a swig out of the bottle till it was gone.
Those were the days!!!

**Wheetsin** · 09-14-2006, 11:24 AM

I loved underoos. :o

Woodys · 09-14-2006, 11:30 AM

Carbon Paper
Onion Skin
Mimeograph
Simon Says
Brown Bottled Orange Crush
Hostess nickle bag of chips with coin prizes from a penny to a quarter

Going to the Saturday afternoon matinee and seeing two features with a cartoon in between with your $2.00 allowance...buying popcorn and a soft drink and still coming home with change in your pocket

Bell bottoms
fur vest
tent dresses in bright orange and lime green flowers
love beads
peace sign
"Wow Man"

Being told by your parents to mind your "P's and Q's" without a psychological or analytical discussion first on the consequences or impact to either party if you didn't

Waking up Saturday morning to the aroma of fresh brewed coffee made in a stove top purcolator.

Geesh......those were the good old days

Carol

**Wheetsin** · 09-14-2006, 12:02 PM

Were mimeographs the precursor to copiers? I can remember back in middle school, the teacher would hand out copies and they were bluish-purple, and the first thing we'd do is inhale as much of the smell as we could before it wore off. Were those pages the product of the mimeograph?

gunn4ya · 09-14-2006, 12:32 PM

Ummm, yeah I remember that stuff:yo:

**Wheetsin** · 09-14-2006, 12:36 PM

I don't know what some of that stuff is, but I know Shrinky Dinks, by Gumby!

sallyjo · 09-14-2006, 12:49 PM

NEVER BEING BORED
NEVER ASKING WHY NOT
EATING WITH ALL THE FAMILY
ASKING FOR FOOD TO BE PASSED PLEASE
NEVER SAYING I DON'T LIKE THAT
CHANGING FROM SCHOOL CLOTHES
LONG RECESS AT SCHOOL
SWINGING FROM A ROPE OR VINE INTO WATER
CHRISTMAS TIME
GETTING ONE GIFT AND FRUIT
WATCHING T.V. IN STRAIGHT BACK CHAIRS
GOING FISHING WITH FAMILY AND SLEEPING ON PALLETS
GETTING WATER FROM A PRIMED PUMP ( told my age)
PEANUT BUTTER AND CRACKERS
CAN CAN SLIPS
ROLLED UP JEANS AND PENNI LOAFERS
SAT.NIGHT ROLLER SKATING
SHARED ALL THIS WITH SEVEN BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS
OH YES!!!! SAYING YES MAM-NO MAM-YES SIR AND NO SIR:)

Woodys · 09-14-2006, 12:54 PM

Yes Wheetsin.....that is mimeograph...that is what we kids got high on before felt tip pens....LOL.

Carol

Woodys · 09-14-2006, 12:58 PM

Eating with all the family.....what ever happened to that? If we weren't home in time to sit at the table with the rest of the family for dinner then we got NONE!.....and Mom meant it! And....we use to whine when we had to sit in the formal dining room on Sunday nights to dinner of roast beef, yorkshire pudding, brussel sprouts, roast potatoes and other veg, etc....every SUNDAY...the same dinner.....we complained like hell.....cripes...would love to have those roast beef Sundays back again....LOL

Carol

Pinkylee · 09-14-2006, 01:09 PM

I'm so glad my children experienced much of the "good life" being born on the edge of computer age.

I had it even better than they did--25 cent allowance covered movies, dime store candy, cheap perfume for Mom and hankies for Dad on bdays, Trixie Beldon books--whatever the week called for. There was always a few pennies left over for the offering envelope on Sunday.

Playing outside until the heat of the day drove us to the backyard kiddie pool or the cool concrete front porch where we read for hours.

I never remember feeling depressed or deprived. Things weren't perfect at our house, but we had a lot of laughs and Mom loved us to "a fault".

Hummmm--maybe DH and I should take a closer look at retiring early!

The best part of life today?

I could name lot--but very few things have to do with computers and money!

dashiedoodle · 09-14-2006, 01:28 PM

I love this!! Thanks for the trip!!!!