I don,t know if some of you guys can relate to this because of age/growing up in different locations but anyone from the UK should.
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.
> >Fingerbobs.
> >Beano, Twinkle.
> >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. Wait......
> >Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials, The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and Why Don't You or staying up for Star Trek.
> >When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere.
>> Earwigs, wasps 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.
>>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 "gym".
>>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 a decent allowance.
> >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. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! - And some of us are still afraid of them!! >>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." "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 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.
Life was so simple when you were a kid!!
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Great POST BB...just a couple of things though...
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