I remember when .....

[redimp]

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


Close your eyes and go back in time...

Before the Internet..

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 tune.

Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball.


Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.

Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,

Tomorrow People, 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.

Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. Climbing trees.

Making 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 on roundabouts, 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.

Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies

Remember when...


There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash
The only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
And they were called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsoles

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

Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's.

Top Trumps.

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 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 pupil 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 Sh   t"

"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.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you must be as OLD as me


This made me smile I hope it does for a few of you too!!

Shelly xxxx

[I, Zimbra]

I really really REALLY wanted to be one of the Why Don't You kids.

 

[Tonji]

I love that Shelly, well I am that old.... sure takes me back in an instant to growing up in South London in the 70s

[RED-DOG]

I loved this post

(But I couldn't read it with my eyes closed)

[Wardonkey]

'It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.'

It was my best chance at olympic glory.

I would have made Great Britain's 'Hot Rice' team as well but Carlos Pannel would have been the star...

[ifm]

Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.


OMG, i loved that stuff, also:-

remember when starburst were opral fruits and snickers were marathons and when sif was jif?

[RED-DOG]

'It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.'

It was my best chance at olympic glory.

I would have made Great Britain's 'Hot Rice' team as well but Carlos Pannel would have been the star...

I wonder why it was called 'Hot rice?' we used to play it with gravel in a sock (I still have the scars)

[RED-DOG]

Remember when milk came in pint bottles and cost a shilling?

[Tonji]

I remember a few of the local teenage girls calling round our house & asking if they can take my baby brother (he was 1 or 2 at the time) out round the park, & my mum saying sure keep him for the rest of the day. Trusting times.

[Wardonkey]

'It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.'

It was my best chance at olympic glory.

I would have made Great Britain's 'Hot Rice' team as well but Carlos Pannel would have been the star...

I wonder why it was called 'Hot rice?' we used to play it with gravel in a sock (I still have the scars)

I've no idea why it was called 'Hot Rice' exept to guess that it rythmed with 'bounce twice'...

Gravel in a sock! We used an old tennis ball.

[MPOWER]

Great post Redimp

I remember

Swap Shop
Hong Kong Phoopy
Valley of the dinosauras
Playing Mables
Hide and Seek
Snow 6ft Deep
Scrumping for apples

And Mint Craknel as a treat

If it was not for the Internet we'd still be singing to  Garry Glitter

But hey things change

regards

M

[M3boy]

And Moon Dust WASNT banned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[CelticGeezeer]

Double Diamond working wonders

Davenports

Mum and Dad lived together

Ford Cortina's  mk1

Morris minors

Footballs with laces (ouch)
 
Black and White telly with valves

telephones with a dial

record players

[RED-DOG]

Remember when fried food wasn't bad for you, and no one needed excercise?

[Eck]

Remember when fried food wasn't bad for you, and no one needed excercise?

yesterday?