DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN?
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 (Space Invaders, Frogger...ROCKED!)
Before cell phones,CD's, DVD's, voicemail and e-mail
WAY BACK
WAY WAY WAY BACK
I'm talkin' about hide and seek at dusk
Red Light Green Light
Red Rover Red Rover
Freeze Tag/ TV Tag
Playing kickball and dodge ball
until the first...no second...no third
streetlight came on
Ring Around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hop Scotch
Jump Rope
Duck...duck ..GOOSE!!
YOU'RE IT! (you better RUN! ;o)
Parents stood on the front porch yelled, whistled, or called your friend's house for you to come home because there were NO cell phones or pagers
Mother May I?
Simon Says
Hula hoops
Swimming pools
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Running through the sprinkler
Endless summer days, hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open
the sound of crickets, trains, older kids still playing (or doing things they shouldn't be doing :-) while you were in bed for the night :-(
Happy Meals w/Grimace and Hamburgerlar shaped cookies
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom
Cracker Jacks with the same thing (What kid ate the peanuts?)
Ice pops with two sticks you could break and share with a friend
Snow cones, ICEE, Pixie Stix, Ring pops
No double stuft, peanut butter, or white chocolate covered...JUST OREO!
Wait there's MORE......
WATCHIN' SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS
Bugs Bunny, Fat Albert, Smurfs, Super Friends, Spider Man and His AMAZING Friends, Tarzan, PAC MAN, Sid -N Kroft, School House Rock
WATCHIN' PBS
Sesame Street, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Captain Kangaroo, The Electric Company, Picture Pages, ZOOM, Bob Ross's (The Joy of Painting) "how about a happy little bush over here" :)
WATCHIN' HBO
Fragglerock, ROCKY (all of them) Grease1 and 2,
Blue Lagoon, anything with vampires, FRIDAY the 13th, HALLOWEEN, and other movies I wasn't supposed to be watching.....still recovering
WATCHIN' TV
WonderWoman, The Bionoic Woman/Milllion Dollar Man, The Addams Family, Charlie's Angels (The REAL ones), Eight Is Enough., Different Strokes, Facts of Life, Little House On the Prairie, I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched, What's Happenin'"RERUN!", HAPPY DAYS (who didn't Love FONZIE?) AYYYYY!
Catching lightning bugs in a jar
Underoos
Christmas Morning
Your first day of school
Bed time prayers and goodnight kisses
Climbing trees
Jumping off the roof of your house with an umbrella to see if it works (maybe that was just me...;)
IT DOESN'T!!
Slipping on a banana peel to see if it works
IT DOES!!
Swinging so high the swingset would pop off the ground ( I made it fall back one time...I jumped before it happened though. I thought I was COOL! My parents DID NOT!!
Listening for the Ice Cream Man and getting money for ice cream (when they were really selling ice cream)
Mosquito bites,sticky fingers, blisters from the pool, skateboarding,
Jumping on the bed,jumping down steps, skating at the skating rink or on the sidewalk
Playing in the woods and not worrying about freaks lurking around
Pillow fights, sleep overs, running till you were out of breath,
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING
WORK meant doing the dishes or taking out the garbage
Your first CRUSH
Your first kiss with your mouth shut and eyes OPEN
RAINY days at school meant playing "Heads up 7UP" or Hangman in the classroom..Remember that?
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...yuck!
When nearly everyone's mom was home when the kids got there
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 not because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc...
Our parents and grandparents were a much BIGGER threat! Some of us are still afraid of them!
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was the cooties
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made better
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly"
Race issues meant arguing about who ran the fastest
Decisions were made by going "1 potato, 2 potato,3potato, 4".... or "eeny meeny miney mo"....
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming "do over!"
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
Being old, referred to anyone over 20
Nobody was prettier than Mom
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 dream come true (or any snow in Fla.;o)
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team
Older siblings were your worst tormentors but also your fiercest protector
Abilites were discoverd because of "Double-Dog-Dare"
Didn't that feel good?
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!!! *LOL*