Are we old enough to remember stuff like this? Or just me.
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Close your eyes...and go back...

Before the Internet or the MAC,

Before semi automatics and crack,

Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...


Way back...


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

Red light, Green light.

Playing kickball & dodge ball until your porch light came on.

Mother May I?

Red Rover

Hula Hoops

Running through the sprinkler



Wait...



Watching Saturday morning cartoons

Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages

G-Force & He-Man

Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos

Playing Dukes of Hazard

Catching lightning bugs in a jar

Christmas morning

Your first day of school

Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses

Climbing trees

Getting an Ice Cream off the Ice Cream Truck

A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers

Jumping down the steps

Jumping on the bed

Pillow fights

Running till you were out of breath

Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt

Being tired from playing

Your first crush

Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7-Up" in the classroom



Remember that?


I'm not finished yet...



Kool-Aid was the drink of summer

Totting your friends on your handle bars

Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school

Class field trips

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 a misbehaving student at home.



I want to go back to the time when...



Decisions were made by saying "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

Catching the 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.

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite gender was cooties.

Nobody was prettier than Mom.

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.

It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people
"rides at the amusement park.

Moving from the "kids table" to the adults table for Holiday supers.

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 weapons.

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.



If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!!

 

Well I guess I've lived my 22 years then. I remember everything. Maybe it was all late getting to poor old Oklahoma.

 

Nice post

Brought back alot of memories as a kid.

 

Simpler days indeed. WTF happened to the world now?

 

I think the stunt bike was invented and the world turned to ****. Damn hoodlums.

 

that's depressing.....

 

Ohhh, the good old days, memories, hindsight bites you in the a$$....That was a good flash back for today...

 

lol I just had the biggest urge to call my friends to play capture the flag. That's it I'm going out to play with the neighborhood kids today. Thanks for the memories.

 

:YEAH nice thread brought back some old memories.

 

i was just thinking the other day about how when i was young i always wished i was older so i could stay up as late as i wanted and do the things grown ups do. and now im think about how how i wish i could go back to the days when me and all of my friends would go to the rich housing developments and sneak in there ponds and go fishing or build bicycle ramps and we had our own secret club houses in the woods behind my parents house and our biggest decision was which spot are we going to fish in when we get to the river.
The neighborhood i lived in when i was little, there was only 3 other kids my age and we were best friends from the time we started kindergarten until we graduated and if you saw one of us you could bet the other 3 were right behind. until about 4 years ago. 2 of them died in a car crash in 2001 and the other one killed himself over a girl at the first of 2002 and none of my friends i have now will ever be the friends they were because all of my memories of my childhood and teen years were with them.
reading this post made me remember all the good times that age makes you forget and i remember everything you just said, so i guess me and my buddys really lived.

 

i still make all my important decisions by eenie meenie miny mo

 

that was only about 10 years ago for me more for a lot more of you......good times i miss em

 

Good post, makes you think twice when your kids do that and you can stop and remember how you use to do the same thing.