joost
September 28th, 2001, 04:53 PM
I know I posted this at the other house, but I thought it was worth sharing with everyone here as well.
What makes us great, what makes others envy us and what we must continue to hold dear.
The good old days.....For those of us who can still remember
Close your eyes.....And go back in time.....
Before the Internet or the MAC,
Before semi automatics and crack.....
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo.....
Way back.....
I’m talking about hide and seek at dusk.
The Good Humor man, Red light, green light.
The corner store.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball.
Mother May I?
Red Rover and Roly Poly
Hula Hoops
Running through the sprinkler
The smell of the sun and licking salty lips.....
Wax lips and mustaches
A Rupert’s or Dairy Queen cone on a warm summer night
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan.
A cherry coke from the fountain at the corner drug store
Watching Saturday Morning cartoons.....short commercials.
Chip and Dale, Road Runner, Mighty Mouse, The Three Stooges, and Bugs
Bunny
Or staying up for Gunsmoke
Or back further, listening to Superman on the radio
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
A million mosquito bites.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro.
Climbing trees,
Building igloos out of snow banks
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down.
Being tired from playing.... Remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Eating Kool-aid powder
Remember when.....there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys
(Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school was for “gym.”
It wasn’t odd to have two or three “best” friends.
When nobody owned a purebred dog.
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a miracle.
When milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks?
When you’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
Without asking, for free, every time.
And, you didn’t pay for air.
And, you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside
The box.
When nearly everyone’s mom was at home when the kids got there.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one.
When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
It was magic when dad would “remove” his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
Their hair done.
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 they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed -and did!
When being sent to the principal’s office was nothing compared to the
Fate that awaited a misbehaving student 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!
Remember when.....
Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-mo.”
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “do over!”
”Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in “Monopoly.”
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn’t an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a slingshot, a pea
shooter or a rubberband gun.
Nobody was prettier than Mom.
Scrapes and bruises were made better with her “magic” kisses.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a “double-dog-dare.”
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.
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 DOUBLE DOG DARE YA!!!
Sometime it's almost fun being a broken down old crotchity fart, just because I can remember most of the stuff mentioned above.
;)
What makes us great, what makes others envy us and what we must continue to hold dear.
The good old days.....For those of us who can still remember
Close your eyes.....And go back in time.....
Before the Internet or the MAC,
Before semi automatics and crack.....
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo.....
Way back.....
I’m talking about hide and seek at dusk.
The Good Humor man, Red light, green light.
The corner store.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball.
Mother May I?
Red Rover and Roly Poly
Hula Hoops
Running through the sprinkler
The smell of the sun and licking salty lips.....
Wax lips and mustaches
A Rupert’s or Dairy Queen cone on a warm summer night
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan.
A cherry coke from the fountain at the corner drug store
Watching Saturday Morning cartoons.....short commercials.
Chip and Dale, Road Runner, Mighty Mouse, The Three Stooges, and Bugs
Bunny
Or staying up for Gunsmoke
Or back further, listening to Superman on the radio
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
A million mosquito bites.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro.
Climbing trees,
Building igloos out of snow banks
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down.
Being tired from playing.... Remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Eating Kool-aid powder
Remember when.....there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys
(Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school was for “gym.”
It wasn’t odd to have two or three “best” friends.
When nobody owned a purebred dog.
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a miracle.
When milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks?
When you’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
Without asking, for free, every time.
And, you didn’t pay for air.
And, you got trading stamps to boot!
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside
The box.
When nearly everyone’s mom was at home when the kids got there.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one.
When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
It was magic when dad would “remove” his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
Their hair done.
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 they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed -and did!
When being sent to the principal’s office was nothing compared to the
Fate that awaited a misbehaving student 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!
Remember when.....
Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-mo.”
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “do over!”
”Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in “Monopoly.”
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn’t an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a slingshot, a pea
shooter or a rubberband gun.
Nobody was prettier than Mom.
Scrapes and bruises were made better with her “magic” kisses.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a “double-dog-dare.”
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.
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 DOUBLE DOG DARE YA!!!
Sometime it's almost fun being a broken down old crotchity fart, just because I can remember most of the stuff mentioned above.
;)