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

  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"