posted 07-25- 08:50 AM               

Close your eyes and go back in time ...

Before the Internet or the MAC
Before semi automatics and crack

Before chronic and indo
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo

Way back...

I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk.

Sittin' on the porch, Hot bread and butter.

The Good Humor man, Red light, Green light.
Chocolate milk, Lunch tickets, Penny candy in a brown paper bag.

Playin' Pinball in the corner store.

Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch Jacks, kickball, dodgeball, y'all!

Mother May I?

Red Rover and Roly Poly

Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds, Jolly Ranchers, Banana Splits Wax Lips
and
Mustaches, Boston Baked Beans, Lemonheads, Alexander the Grapes, Sugar
Daddies, Chico Sticks

Running through the sprinkler.

The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips.

Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons; Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The
Three Stooges, and Bugs Bunny

Watchin' Kung Fu Theatre

Listening to Superman on the radio

Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar, Playin sling shot, Bedtime, Climbing
trees.

When around the corner seemed far away and going downtown seemed like
going
somewhere.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night; Chocolate or vanilla or
strawberry
or maybe butter pecan.

A lemon coke from the fountain at the corner drug store.

A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers.

Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Sittin on the curb, Jumpin down
the
steps, Jumpin on the bed, Pillow fights

Runnin till you were out of breath, Laughing so hard that your stomach
hurt,
Being tired from playin'.... Remember that?

I ain't finished just yet...

Eating Kool-aid powder with sugar, Cereal boxes with the cut out records
on
the back, Jackson 5 "ABC".

Remember ...

When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF
Flyers)
and the only time you wore them was for "gym" at school.

When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one.

When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.

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 girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.

When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.

When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their
hair done, everyday.

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 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 it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real
restaurant with your parents.

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 and some of us are still afraid of em!!!

Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

There's nothing like the good old days!
They were good then, and they're good now when we think about them.

Share some of these thoughts with a friend who can relate,
then share them with someone that missed out on them.

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posted 08-07- 02:02 PM               

When nuclear bomb threats spread over the country.

When the Soviets launched their Sputnik and we shivered in a corner feeling helpless.

When the "duck and cover" method for surviving a atomic blast was actually thought to work.

When racism ruled and riots happened every week.

When a black man got linched or shot and left in a ditch just because he looked at a white girl.

When a colored man or woman couldnt go to a collage because it was "whites only".

Im talkin way back here......

P.S. The good old days sucked! Grrrrr!!!!

posted 08-07- 03:21 PM               

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posted 08-08- 08:49 PM               

Well, ego te hoc nomeni to you too.