Who remembers these???

[dangeruss]

Do you remember...........?
Remember These Days...

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

Close your eyes (metaphorically speaking) and go back in time...

Before the Internet or the Apple Mac. Before semiautomatics, 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.
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 screwballs wait......

Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials,
The Double Decker's, RoadRunner, He-Man, Zeebedee Tis was 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. 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.

I'm not finished just yet, 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 purebred 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!!

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 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.

Didn't that feel good?

Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED. Pass this
on to anyone who may need a break from their ''grown up'' life...

GO ON I DOUBLE DARE YOU!!!

[glazzy]

think i've read this b4 but it's still brilliant!!!
got a lump in my throat i wish i could go back, everything was simple and good!!

jayne x

[HairyACIDHelmet]

Dont forget Ting Tang Tommy,Galaxy Counters and Spearmint Mojo's...Fantastic Days Then some of us,LOTS of us Found Acid House and here we are now!

[Saysay]

Excellent mate!! Aaaaaaah them were the dayz! Im with Glazzy on this, certainley does bring a lump to ya throat!!! Gone but not forgotten!!

Anybody else use to play British Bulldogs ???

[glazzy]

Originally posted by Miss saysay


Anybody else use to play British Bulldogs ???

our school banned british bulldog cos there was kids gettin broken arms or legs at least once a week!! lol
it was ace that game!!
i remember playin rounders in our road aswell...it used to be really good, couldn't do it nowadays though cos there r too many cars

jayne x

[Miss Cola]

Thats brilliant!!

[Saysay]

Bulldogs got banned at our school aswell!! LOL, top game that was!! :p

[HairyACIDHelmet]

Originally posted by Miss saysay
Bulldogs got banned at our school aswell!! LOL, top game that was!! :p

Yep Tops and a BAN!!!

[JohnnyPink]

BULLDOG 123. Caught ya. No ya didn't. Yes i did. No ya didn't. Ahhhhh the beautiful game.

I wanna actually be a wee nipper again and not have to be satisfied with just acting like one all the time. :p

[Saysay]

I loved playin Kissie Catch!! Get game that was whoever made that up!! :p :p :p