Way back...

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Way back....

I'm talking about Hide and seek in the park
The shop down the road, Hopscotch, Donkey, skipping,
handstands, stuck in the mud,
football with an old can, Dandy, Beano, Twinkle and Roly Poly
Hula Hoops,
Jumping the stream,
Building a swing from a tyre and a piece of rope tied to a tree,
(If you live in Dublin the lampost)
building tree-houses, climbing up onto roofs,
Tennis on the street, the smell of the sun and fresh
cut grass
Hubba Bubba bubble gum and 2p Flogs, macaroon bars and woppas,
3p refreshers and wham bars,
golf ball chewing gums and liquorice whips,
desperate dan and roy of the rovers,
sherbit dips and mr. freezes,
marathon bars and everlasting gobstoppers,
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van
that plays a tune
chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe neopolitan

Wait......

Watching Saturday Morning cartoons...
Short commercials, battle of the Planets,
Road Runner, He-Man, Swapshop, and Why Don't You,
Transformers, how do you do?, bosco, forty-coats,
the littlest hobo and lassie, chucklevision,
little house on the prairie and highway to heaven,
Or staying up for Knight Rider when around the corner seemed far
away
and going into town seemed like going somewhere

A million mosquito bites, sticky fingers and mud all over you,
knee-pads on your jeans,
Cops and Robbers,
Rounders, tip the Can, Climbing trees, spin the bottle,
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 sneakers - girls and boys and
Dunlop Green Flash
and the only time you wore them at school,
Was for "P.E.", gola football boots
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends,
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
muggings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
and some of us are still afraid of them!!!

Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "eeny- meeny- miney-mo."
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly"
the game of life and connect four,
Atari 2600's and Commodore 64's,
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs
It was unbelievable that Kerbs wasn't an Olympic event
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a biro barrel
pea
shooter
or an elastic band,

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable vitamins
Ice cream was considered a basic food group
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true
Abilities were discovered because of a "double dare"
Older siblings were the worst tormentors,
but also the fiercest protectors

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...

I DOUBLE DARE YA!!!

Andor

I cried half way though that!

whats with all the nostalgia lately ?

i blame the new Persil Ad..... "in 1984 Persil brought out their first non-bio washing powder....."

Rabies

hold on a sec..... just wiping a tear from my eye .......

i'm ok now.....

i miss my childhood school days