Memories!!

[Fandango 1,440]

Got this in an email from a friend of mine and I had to laugh cos I can remember a good portion of these things....how many can YOU remember?

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

Happy Meals

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 cartoons

Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man,

Schoolhouse Rock

Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)

Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos

FONZIE.....AYYYYYYYY

Playing Dukes of Hazard

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 off the Good Humor Truck

A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers

Jumpin' down the steps

Jumpin' on the bed

Pillow fights

Sleep-overs

A 13" black and white TV in your room meant you were

RICH

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 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 your parents took you to McDonalds and you were COOL

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. (#######! 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

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 TRIPLE DOG DARE YA!!!!!!

[CarolineM 0]

That's awesome!! I love it!

[Sinergy 3]

I enjoyed that alot thanks lisa

[Bootylicious!! 2]

Thanks Lisa, that brought back a lot of memories. One thing I didn't see listed was Sardines. We used to play that when I was younger. One person would hide and the others would look for them. As you found the person hiding you would then squeeze in the hiding place with them until the last person was left. I don't exactly remember what happened if you were the last one left but that was the basics of the game. We also waited until after dark to play and we did it outside. It was so much fun.

Also, my brother, when we would catch lightning bugs, would tear off their butts and stick them on my finger like a glowing ring. I thought it was so cool, until I realized I had lightning bug guts on my finger.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Remember all thanks playing at school and just swinging high as you could go without a care in the world...little did we know

[Thingee 0]

Good times. My youngest sister used to catch crickets in jars and keep them overnight so they'd sing to her.

[*julez* 124]

Such good times! I wish things were still like that for my kids!!!

I totally miss Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom!!!! There were 5 of us and oh the fights!!!!! LOL

[bostonparis 0]

That's awesome! I remember playing Kick the Can. I don't remember the rules of the game, but I remember it had something to do with finding a can that someone tossed out of their car window (probably a beer can back in those days!), and ... well... kicking it.

My mom used a cow bell to ring us home. No, I didn't grow up on a farm, either!!

[Savanphil 3]

The good ol' days....I remember so much of that stuff....man how things have changed.

[*julez* 124]

That's awesome! I remember playing Kick the Can. I don't remember the rules of the game, but I remember it had something to do with finding a can that someone tossed out of their car window (probably a beer can back in those days!), and ... well... kicking it.

My mom used a cow bell to ring us home. No, I didn't grow up on a farm, either!!

We played Kick the Can all the time!!! It was kind of like hide and seek, but if "gool" was unprotected someone could kick the can and free everyone who'd already been found. It was soo much fun! Sigh.

[bostonparis 0]

That's awesome! I remember playing Kick the Can. I don't remember the rules of the game, but I remember it had something to do with finding a can that someone tossed out of their car window (probably a beer can back in those days!), and ... well... kicking it.

My mom used a cow bell to ring us home. No, I didn't grow up on a farm, either!!

We played Kick the Can all the time!!! It was kind of like hide and seek, but if "gool" was unprotected someone could kick the can and free everyone who'd already been found. It was soo much fun! Sigh.

RIGHT!! It's all coming back to me now!

[Ban Hammer 13,651]

That's awesome! I remember playing Kick the Can. I don't remember the rules of the game, but I remember it had something to do with finding a can that someone tossed out of their car window (probably a beer can back in those days!), and ... well... kicking it.

My mom used a cow bell to ring us home. No, I didn't grow up on a farm, either!!

We played Kick the Can all the time!!! It was kind of like hide and seek, but if "gool" was unprotected someone could kick the can and free everyone who'd already been found. It was soo much fun! Sigh.

[*julez* 124]

Thanks for the visual charles!!!!

[Savanphil 3]

I'm going to have to pass these games on to my kids....hopefully we won'thave to be the only play mates.

Kick the Can

Hide n Seek

Hop Scotch

freeze Tag

Red light Green Light

Mother May I

Simon Says

[Ban Hammer 13,651]

Thanks for the visual charles!!!!

i finally got to use that one!