Top Dog
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Remember when.....Go back in time....
Before the Internet or iPod.
Before semi-automatics, joy riders and crack....
Before Playstation or XBox
Way back....
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
Hunt The Fox
The corner shop.
Hopscotch.
Butterscotch.
Skipping.
Handstands.
Football with an old can and jumper for goalposts
Fingerbobs.
Wooden Tops.
Mary Mungo and Midge
Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace.
Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops.
Yellow Submarine
Acs 651 Trucks, Red 70 MM Kryptonics and flexideck
Patch Pockets and the Bay City Rollers, Mud, and Showaddywaddy, The Osmonds
The Concorde with it’s folding down nose
The smell of fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer's night from the van that plays a tune.
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a
Screwball.
Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials, The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Zeebedee, Tiswas or Swapshop, and 'Why Don't You'?, Daktari, F Troop, Giganto, Mr Benn, The Magic Roundabout, The Monkees, The Green Hornet, James Bond, Chopper Squad, C.H.I.P.S, Kojak, Pans People
Staying up for Doctor Who or better still Match of the day.
Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds, Basil Brush, Spotty Dog, Bill and Ben, play school. Vision On.
When the three musketeers was actually four lol, flipper, Batman and Robin.
Watching a Dracula movie was considered really daring. and brave
You were really embarrassed to watch a man and a woman kissing on TV.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere special.
Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
Sticky fingers. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro, Green Hornet
Climbing trees and conquers.
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath and getting a stitch.
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, Chinese burns.
Playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and Grifters, Tonka toys.
The spacehopper, and if you were lucky a pogo stick.
Rolph Harris Boomerang that did actually come back and his didgerreedoo
I'm not finished just yet....
Eating raw jelly. Orange squash home made ice lollies..
The original salt and shake crisp with a blue packet of salt.
Remember when....
There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them to school was for P.E.
Dr Martens the more holes in the boots the tougher you were.
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.
Collecting for Guy Fawks night and then buying chips with the proceeds for everyone in your gang.
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 youngster 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 you are on it"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly".
You just had to buy Mayfair and Park Lane
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog" and "Hop Scotch' weren't Olympic events.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Fruit Salads, Blackjacks and space dust.
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.
I bet you are either smiling like a cheshire cat, or you have a tear in your eye.
God they were great times, will we ever see them again.
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