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Do You Remember?
Have you lived? I have!!!
Do you remember:
Hide-and-seek at dusk.
Red light, green light.
The corner store.
Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball.
Mother May I?
Step on A Crack
Kick The Can
Red Rover and Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops.
Running through the sprinkler;
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night; Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan.
Cherry Coke from the soda fountain at the corner drug store.
Wait . . .
Watching Saturday morning cartoons ... short commercials...
Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man and Bugs Bunny,
Double Feature Movie Shows
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like going Somewhere.
A million mosquito bites. Sticky fingers.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Walking to school, no matter what the weather was.
Running till you were out of breath and your side hurt 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.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
\'m not finished yet -- eating Kool-aid powder.
Remember when:
When nobody owned a purebred dog.
When a dollar was a decent allowance, and another dollar was a miracle.
When milk went up a quarter and everyone talked about it for weeks.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,without asking, for free, every time.
And you didn\'t pay for air in the tires.
When nearly everyone\'s Mom was at home when the kids got there.
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you had one.
When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
When it was magic when dad would \"remove\" his thumb.
Or maybe have you pull his finger!
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.
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 they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed, and did!
When being sent to the principal\'s office was nothing compared to what awaited a misbehaving student when arriving 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 them!
It is called respect!
Didn\'t that feel good, just to go back and say, \"Yeah, I remember that!\" ?
Remember when:
Decisions were made by going \"eeny-meeny-miney-mo.\"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, \"do over!\"
\"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 cooties.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a slingshot.
Nobody was prettier than Mom.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
New abilities were discovered because of a \"double-dog dare.\"
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or some of these, then you have LIVED!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their \"grown up\" life. TAG! YOU\'RE IT!
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