Remember When?
Close your eyes...And go back in time Before semi automatics and
crack...
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back...I'm talking about
Hide and seek at dusk.
Red light, green light.
The corner store.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball.
Mother May I...
Red Rover and Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops.
Running through the sprinkler.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night...
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or
maybe butter pecan
Wait...
Watching Saturday Morning cartoons...
Short commercials.
Fat Albert, Road Runner, The Three Stooges, and Bugs.
Or back further...
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro. Climbing trees, building
igloos out of snow banks Running till you were out of breath. Laughing
so
hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down...
Being tired from playing...Remember that? The worst embarrassment was
being
picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Baseball cards in the spokes
transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
I'm not finished just yet...
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When you got your
windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped without asking, for
free,
every time... and, you didn't pay for air.
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. When it was considered
a
great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with
your
parents. When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school,
if
then.
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!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember
that!"
Remember when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." Mistakes were
corrected
by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. The worst thing
you
could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. It was unbelievable
that
dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin. Abilities were
discovered because of a "double-dog-dare
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