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....


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

Bed time 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 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 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 them!

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. (CRAP! 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!!!

Acht, Yi Ken Fit like.

I still own a hula hoop (pink, with stripes); a pogo stick (lime green and hot pink) and jacks. I rock at jacks!

Ya I remember the days...

I remember my parents were the first in the neighbourhood in Corea to have a phone...
I recall receiving calls for our neighbours and running down the street to get them... lol...

I remember not having running water, using an outhouse and heating our house with coal under the floors...

lol...

Only STUPID and IGNORANT people find me offensive!

Ahhhhyes...I still use "Do overs" It works sometimes.

How about going Trick Or Treating in large groups of kids with the parents lagging behind and EVERYONE having something to hand out that didn't include poison or razor blades

School dances where the kids actually danced

Making "tents" with chairs and blankets and having "campouts" with friends on a school night

building a tree house

being able to play unsupervised on your street with neighbor kids

tire swings!

being able to accompany friends and family members all the way to the hangerbay at the airport and being able to meet them as soon as they came off the plane with hugs and kisses

being able to win a game of "I never"! *teehee*

It feels so GOOD to be so WRONG! Sometimes...

TC!!! I was just talking about some of this with a friend tonight. I feel so fortunate to have so many good memories from my childhood, and that the not so good ones have faded somewhat.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane again.

Oh man, I remember that stuff... Those were some very good times, and I miss it a lot. Lucky for Erin, she gets all that stuff when she goes to visit my parents. Things haven't changed much back home. She loves it, and I'm happy she will have these memories, too. Of course, it sort of makes moving up here even more bittersweet. Had we just stayed on the farm, she would know all these things as normal, and not just a rare treat....

He's worth it.

*wistful sigh* Thank you for the takeback~ Such memories..