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Remember When…
Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this.
Go back in time…
Before the internet or Apple Mac, Before SEGA or Super Nintendo. Back…
I’m talking about hide and seek in the park, The corner shop, hopscotch, butterscotch, Skipping, handstands, football with an old can, Finger bob’s, Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace, or 'Roly Poly'.
Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams The smell of the sun on fresh cut grass Bazooka Joe bubble gum, an ice cream cone on a warm summer night From the van that plays a tune - Chocolate or vanilla or Strawberry or Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball?
Watching cartoons on a Saturday morning… short commercials, the Double Decker’s, Road Runner, He-Man, Zebedee, Tiswas or Swap Shop. Why don’t you? Or Staying up late for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere. Earwigs, Wasps, Stinging Nettles and Bee Stings. Sticky Fingers. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing Trees, Building igloos out of snow banks, walking to school no matter what the weather. Running until 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 were cause for giggles. The worst embarrassment in your day was to be picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon; football cards in the spokes turned any bike into a motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters. I’m not finished just yet… Eating raw jelly, orange squash ice-pops.
Remember when there were only two types of trainers - Girls and Boys, and Dunlop Green Flash – and the only time that you wore them at school was for P.E.
It wasn’t odd to have two or three ‘best’ friends. You didn’t sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.
When nobody owned a pure breed dog and 25p was decent pocket money.
When you would reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When nearly everyone’s mum was at home when the kids got there. It was magic when dad would ‘remove’ his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to go out for dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
You knew everyone in your street – and so did your parents.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed them or use them to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When having been sent to the head’s office was, nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
We were in fear of our lives but it wasn’t because of drive by shootings, drugs and gangs. Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of us are still afraid of them.
Didn’t that feel good? Just go back and say, “Yeah, I remember that!”
Remember when… Decisions were made by going “Ip Dip Dog Sh*t”
A race issue meant arguing about who had run the fastest.
Money issues were always handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
The worst thing you could catch form the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day had to be sitting next to one.
It was unbelievable that ‘British Bulldog 1-2-3’ wasn’t an Olympic event, and having a weapon in school was being caught with a catapult.
There was nobody prettier than mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant taking orange flavoured chewable aspirin; Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
When getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors…
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
Anon.
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