O/T memories...trip down memory lane

August 31, 2006

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

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 it broke....)

Pillow fights

Sleep-overs

Sliding down the banister till your mom yelled

Sliding down the stairs on your butt instead of walking

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

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August 31, 2006

* Close your eyes...And go back...

.....Before the Internet or PC or the MAC......

[Dave:] Oh man, you hit some good ones...I remember everyone on the block

gathering on front lawns to eat watermelon (3¢ a pound) or homemade ice

cream...and the time everyone gathered outside and peered at the sky because

the newspaper said there was a satellite going overhead – make that THE

satellite! I remember the first color TV I ever saw, with its round screen.

And the cars! Studebaker, Rambler, Hudson. A ten-speed bike was an

“English racer.” Today, a ten-speed is a museum piece. Remember the Fourth

of July, when you could drive to the city limits and buy enough explosives

to keep Homeland Security scurrying for months! Doctors made house calls,

and maybe came over to Sunday dinner once in a while. Eeny-meeny,

teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini. Purple People Eater. If you got the

money honey, I got the time…

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September 1, 2006

David Lambert <dlmbrt wrote: [Dave:] Oh man, you hit some good

ones...I remember everyone on the block