"Remember When"

REMEMBER????.....

• Close your eyes.....And go back....
• Before the Internet or the MAC,
• Before semi automatics and crack
• Before chronic and indo
• Before SEGA or Super Nintendo

Waaaaay 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.
• Running through the sprinkler.
• The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips.

......WAIT......

• Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons: Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The
  Three Stooges, and Bugs Bunny.
• Or back further, listening to Superman on the radio.
• Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar, Playin sling shot.
• When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like
  going somewhere.
• Bedtime, Climbing trees, An ice cream 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.
• 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'.
• Eating Kool-aid powder with sugar.

 
......I ain't finished just yet...Remember when.......

• 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.
• 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 still have that healthy fear 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 it with someone that missed out on them.

Those were the days!