Remember the days

[OfficerResource.com]

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..thir d
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(my mom was good at whistling)

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, Looney Toons

Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)

Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos

FONZIE..AYYYYYYYYE

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 or the carnival

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!!!

[Motorwaycop]

I remember it well.

My god, am I really that old!!!!

Even the long summer break in England was hot back then!

We actually won sometimes at sport!

Footballers cared more about the pride in the shirt than the money that accompanied it.

There were only 3 TV channels. It closed down at midnight and they played the national anthem.

Shops only opened between 9 - 5 and closed all day Sunday and half day Wednesday.

You couldn't get anthying to eat other than your own sandwiches on the night shift.

The courts believed the word of a Police officer over the word of a defendant.

I didn't think I would ever get old and suffer from back pain!

More please, my fingers hurt from this typing malarky!

[Trojan 42]

Black Rats were decent human beings. No, sorry no ones old enough to remember that far back! Ooops, did I say that out loud.

[Motorwaycop]

Black Rats were decent human beings. No, sorry no ones old enough to remember that far back! Ooops, did I say that out loud.

Some of us still keep the tradition alive.

By the way Trojan you can still get black rat stickers, mugs, pin badges etc.

[Trojan 42]

I have a Rat sticker somewhere, in the garage I think. Wouldn't put it in my car though, too ashamed.

Here's one.

Kids could run round the streets playing cowboys, without someone calling out an ARV.

[Motorwaycop]

It's alright, nobody would know what it was, not even most Policemen.

[CountyFourteen]

wonders if reca lived my childhood, lol

[BigDawg]

Aaahhhhh yes I remember those days!!!


Thanks for the memories Reca.......It's nice to take time out and remember when things were much simplier in life!!!

[SRT Sniper]

Holy cow Reca, I think you only forgot;

It was a luxury to buy lunch at school

You had to do homework in your room - quietly!

"Busing" was something done in a restaurant - not a school

"PC" meant Nothing!

Seatbelts were optional in all vehicles (had to throw this one in! )

[Hannibal]

Ahhh.. good times... good times.

[armygrnt502]

How about the toys that you played with had noises made by you, not a button on its side?

The days of Big Wheels (esp. when you could skid and wear your front tire down)

Playgrounds with actual playground stuff like jungle gyms, see-saws and merry-go-rounds

A push up to you was a type of ice cream (usually orange)

You went to the library to check out books, not to get on the computers.

You went to your neighbors house when they moved in with some sort of food and offered to pitch in and help.

Station Wagons had the fold down 3rd seat (that was right over the gas tank...)

[SRT Sniper]

...Station Wagons had the fold down 3rd seat (that was right over the gas tank...)

And a Station Wagon was actually called a Station Wagon and NOT an SUV!!

[Buttercup]

Reca, that's a great post....I remember all of those things, haha.

I confess, I have the "Schoolhouse Rock" dvd.

[Pedro56]

How about this, toys that were fun but didn't have some safety Nazi looking over them and they were allowed to go out into the world with sharp jagged edges!!! then over time they rusted and you would cut yourself and need a tetnis shot!!! Yes! Or...Monkey bars.....The Absolute Best, especially with that really fine gravel underneath them.

[Willowdared]

Kick the can - best game that ever was!

Clipping playing cards on your bike spokes to make noise.

Writing your name with sparklers. (Not legal in Cali )

Porch swings.

[Autumn2009]

When the Disney Channel actually had "cool" shows on it and not preppy, skanky hoes, running around going "oh my god!" in unrealistic home and social settings.

Light Brights.

Slinkies meant HOURS of entertainment.

God was said in PUBLIC.

[edg103]

How about this, toys that were fun but didn't have some safety Nazi looking over them and they were allowed to go out into the world with sharp jagged edges!!! then over time they rusted and you would cut yourself and need a tetnis shot!!! Yes! Or...Monkey bars.....The Absolute Best, especially with that really fine gravel underneath them.

Yeah!!! Lawn darts...I think they were called Jarts if memory serves.
Snow days
Moon boots
Sledding
Atari 2600
Star Wars action figures by Kenner
Hot Wheels/Matchbox
Huffy bikes with the big "banana" seat
Big Wheel/The Green Machine
Going to the arcade and spending my allowence on Tempest
Legos
Summer vacation

[L.E. Psych]

Aaahhhhh yes I remember those days!!!


Thanks for the memories Reca.......It's nice to take time out and remember when things were much simplier in life!!!

Absolutely BigDawg!!!

Imagination was not a dirty word and you never gave a strange look to your parents when they told you to use it.

You never complained it was too hot or cold you were outside from dusk till dawn and complained when you had to come in.

Thanks for bringing back memories of the good day Reca!!!!

[Autumn2009]

Yeah!!! Lawn darts...I think they were called Jarts if memory serves.

Lol. Those things are actually illegal to sell on ebay. My mom does quite a bit of ebay selling and everytime she tries to list those things they get cancelled within hours and she gets an angry violation letter from ebay. Lol.

[Willowdared]

I had a spirograph - with real pins!