AHHHHHHH, THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!

The words below are not mine (Not sure who wrote them) but they must have lived their childhood as I lived mine......




My curfew was the street lights! My mom called my name, not my cell. I played outside with friends, not online. If I didn’t eat what my mom cooked, then I didn’t eat. Sanitizer didn’t exist, but I COULD get my mouth washed out with soap. I rode a bike without a helmet, getting dirty was OK, and my neighbors looked out for me as much as my parents did. Raise your hands if you drank from a garden hose and survived!


AHHHHHHH, the good old days daydream daydream daydream
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well, what can I say, Im a cave man ( we still don`t use toilet paper)...grin
I got my first kiss playing Kick the can. wave

How the world has changed sigh
non.. I know. I would take off on my bike early in the morning and ride into town (about 5 miles) spend the day with my friends and ride home in time for dinner. If someone stopped you on the road, it was someone you knew asking if you needed a ride (if it began to rain)....We didn't have the technology, but I think it was a good trade off.....
Mike.. laugh laugh You must have used the "10 second rule"...if you picked it up in 10 seconds or less, you could wipe if off and eat it....no problem!!! laugh laugh
Have we really seen the death of street games. crying
I hope not. dunno
mike get your land legs on and play some ball laugh
non....OMG...dodge ball, kick ball, statue, hide and seek at night, building tree forts...... thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up
well this an eye oppener, did not release usa was so backward, in england at least we had out side toiletgrin grin grin
Yes'm lgs!

That's exactly what Harold (my old buddy) and I used to do all day long. Sometimes Ronnie Thompson would join us or Terry Willis or Billy Williams or the Weimer brothers Warren and Vernon.

It was great!
hey non i am not gonna be the goalkeeper again if i am im not playingand stop movin my jacket i mean the goalpostrolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Yeah Kick the can was a form of hide and seek thumbs up
and Statue we called scotch grin
Mike Jumpers n Jackets for goalposts, those were Indeed the days.
Where has the Imagination gone from the world.

Are we doomed to this Virtual dream land forever more uh oh
I walked to school with my feet (sometimes even when it was raining). Mum still doesn't drive. I climbed trees. I didn't get taken to the doctor at the first sneeze and I'm still here. conversing
statue in cork ,anyone ever play thunder up the alley grin
When we picked up sweets, we used to bless ourselves with it and say God Kissed it, The Devil missed it. mmmmmmmplease
Godsgift, I know!! Seems like everything we did THEN is everything we shouldn't have done!! Life wasn't perfect, but we had imaginations, were more physically fit and wore ourselves out so we always slept good at night...sleep sleep wink
Ed... wave Times were good, in hindsight. Heck, we thought times were good then. laugh
Homemade skate boards!!! laugh Take apart a roller skate (metal of course) Nail the front wheels to the front of a board and the back rollers to the back of the board....find the biggest hill and go for it!!!dancing dancing
ok ill tell ya it was before plastic drainpipes you got lots newspaper and crumble it all up then you shoved as much as you could up the then asbestos drainpipe and lit it and the thunderous noise it made would bring the neighbours running out it was better than runaway knock hahablushing wink head banger banana dunno dunno dunno it wasnt me mister i sweartongue tongue rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
non....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
what about marbles played in the school yard, prize a gob stopper, I'm showing my age , so whatcheering cheering cheering cheering cheering cheering cheering cheering cheering cheering
Mike.... wow wow OH....you were one of THOSE boys!!!! laugh laugh
mmmmmmmmmmmmm....Gob Stoppers!! Forgot all about them..... laugh
in egland we called skate boards, bogeys, made up from old prams wheels & wood
Theik... Nothing fancy, we made them ourselves but MAN were they fun!!!!! laugh laugh
I remember my HM skateboard painted blue with red lightning bolts head banger
non...You had a FANCY skateboard huh? Mine was just wood, no paint...You were LUCKY!!!! laugh laugh
Mike raleigh choppers were King till they brought out the Grifter wow
lgs I think the paint slowed it down wave
mike.... laugh laugh I have so many scars..knees, elbows, under my chin....but we never stopped playing...kept right on and patched ourselves up when we got home.....
non...You didn't paint the WHEELS did you?? laugh
so very true, patched up when home, ready for next day adventuresdancing elephant
Every thing on my skateboard was painted. even I was blue for two days after rolling on the floor laughing
Playing cards and clothes pins on the spokes!! rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
non... laugh laugh laugh applause applause
Lgs did you have one of these
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This is as close as I could find....STILL fancier that the ones we made.....but check out the wheels laugh laugh



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Mike did you play conkers
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Thats a steam roller LGS laugh rolling on the floor laughing
non....hula hoops?? Of course....my grandchildren have them now!! Courtesy of Grandma, of course laugh laugh
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