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[AK]

Memories...this is lovely!

Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this:

Close your eyes and go back in time...
Before the Internet or the Apple Mac.
Before semi automatics, joyriders and crack....
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...

Way back........

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
The corner shop
Hopscotch.
Butterscotch.
Skipping.
Handstands.
Football with an old can.
Fingerbob.
Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace.
Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops.
The smell of the sun and 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 maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball.

Watching Saturday morning cartoons.....short commercials.
The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Zeebedee, Tiswas or Swapshop, Why Don't You or staying up for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere.

Earwigs, wasps, stag beetles, stinging nettles and bee stings.
Sticky fingers.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians and Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath and getting a stitch, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.

Being tired from playing.....remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Playing cards in the spokes transformed 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 two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.
You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
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-bred dog.
When 25p was decent pocket money.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.

When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
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 head'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.
Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat, and some of us are still afraid of them!

Remember when....
Decisions were made by going 'Ip, Dip, Dog Sh*t.'
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.

It was unbelievable that British Bulldog 123 wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
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.

Ring bells with anyone?

C

[Steve M]

bells are ringing merrily

[ath748]

Almost every single one of those brought back a fantastic memory from my childhood. I wish I could go back, what great times they were.

That has taken me back, thank you!

Ade.

[nelly]

I had a bang on the head at 19 which sadly wiped out virtually all those memories.............
One thing though..........you can still get Hula Hoops and I eat tons of the things

[Brent]

Ah...

Risking your limbs at the most dangerous place in the area - the playground at the park......

The witch's hat combined with tarmac - cause of most of the broken arms among my friends....

[Henners]

... you on reception by any chance this morning???

[AK]

Henry - how did you guess?

They think I'm lovely to volunteer for sitting out here on my own nobody wanted to colunteer - little do they know.......

I have got all nostalgic now with those memories

[dave s]

ding ding ding

[Dementor]

Knew you were as old as me

[AK]

Originally posted by Dementor
Knew you were as old as me

cant be mate - you told me you had a thrupenny bit for your pocket money:P