Step Back In Time
Posted on 2003-11-16
Just for a minute, forget about anything stressful and read this.....
Close your eyes and go back in time.....
Before Internets or Apple Macs.....
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, jumping the stream, building dams.
- 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.....
Wait, there's more.....
- Watching Saturday morning cartoons.....
- Short commercials,
- The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Zeebedee, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and '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, 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 till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
- Jumping on the bed and 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.
- Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
- Choppers and Grifters.
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.
- It was magic when Dad would 'remove' his thumb.
- 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 Shit'
- '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 the person who supposedly had them.
- 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 congratulations, you have truly lived!!!