AHHHHHHHHHH, THE MEMORIES!!!


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

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, Tom & Jerry, Heckle & Jeckle, Pink Panther, Richochet Rabbit, Smurfs


Schoolhouse Rock

Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges, Tarzan, Shirley Temple, SteamPipe Alley, OR WONDERAMA!!)


Wonder Woman & SuperMan Underoos

Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar


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 (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 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.


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!!!!!!