Ah! Memories!

This was sent to me via email from a good Friend. I wanted to share it with all of you. Summer is the time we all realize life is moving too fast, there is too little time for what must be done, and never enough for what we want to do....let's all go back to when we had all the time in the world, and "nothing to do!" LOL. Enjoy.




Enjoy your trip back down memory lane...
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 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 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. (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!!!( I know I did!)

Queenie.