ah, they were the days

showing my age now ,this only makes sense if your about 35 or over ,shamelessly copied from another forum



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 a tune.

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

Wait.....

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.

Didn't that feel good?

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

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 have LIVED.
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good eh?

That brought back some memories you missed one though, The clips you got off a loaf of bread the plastic ones we used to put them on our bike spokes as well as the cards!!!! Oh those where the days

[Red ones]

Originally Posted by BILLY

That brought back some memories you missed one though, The clips you got off a loaf of bread the plastic ones we used to put them on our bike spokes as well as the cards!!!! Oh those where the days

Class!

I didnt see making tents from sheets, pegs and a washing line

[tigersaw]

I remember all those things,

I also remember when it hurt to have anything done at the dentist,

I remember living in a house with only an outside toilet.

I remember measels, mumps, chickenpox, nits and ringworm.

I remember a life without fridges, washing machines and TV.

I remember the corona pop man and starting handles on cars.

great stuff

how about this one

the most annoying thing on tv was not a semi naked blue frog

but violet elizabeth bott in just william

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by jim@55

Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

Nah football cards were rubbish, what you really wanted was really good thick cardboard, oh and the more bits of cardboard stuck into your wheel the more cylinders you had.

F*cking ace

I closed my eyes, but then I could't read the rest of the post! Plus I'm under 35 so probably a good thing.

[Richie]

a) I remember drawing road signs on the roads in chalk and riding my push bike round with a load of other people waiting patiently in there cars till I'd got the the other side of the road and back..
b) people speeking and smiling,
c) typhoo tea cards collecton,
d) lollypop sticks in the spokes to make your bike into a motorbike.
e) klackers, space hoppers, pogo sticks, rollerskates, embasey no.1 stamps to get roller skates, Green Sheild stamps, Esso-blue.
f) the trim phone, and people trying to sound like them.
g) Hughie Green, Oppertuinity Knocks, and I mean that most sincearly folks.
h) The Golden Shot,

going round my grandparents on a saturday night to meat up with aunties and uncles and alll your cousins to play cards for money (2p max)

arr the list goes on.

[Biker Biggles]

We are a bunch of old farts are'nt we?
How did we survive without today's mod cons and with all those terrible diseases flying around?Easy.We cared not one jot about any of it and were none the worse off.