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Sorry is this is in the wrong place but I got a good chuckle out of this and thought you might too. I know I needed a good chuckle this morning, I'm a little scared ok so maybe really scared because I have to have some surgery this afternoon to get rid of some cancer. Not a lot of it just a little to quote my doc. So I am asking for prayers too. But for the good stuff this really fit me. And the first part is about how I spent my childhood.
To quote my friend Freez "outside!!" was a word I spoke from the time I was able to talk. We made tree houses, forts and clubs in the trees. Played hide and seek until our parents were screaming for you to get your butts home. We went camping and slept in a canvas sided tent that always had a little bit of a musty, smokey, wonderful camping smell. In the winter when it was too cold to go outside, we would read, play games or cards. TV was a luxury and we watched it only when there was a good show on. Ok so I am going to age myself..... like The Wonderful World of Disney, or the Hardy Boy and Nancey Drew. ( I had the biggest crush on Shawn Cassidy, lol) And when we finally got the Pong game we could only play it for a half hour.
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 1970s and early 1980s probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was regularly chewed and licked.
****We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or latches on doors or cabinets, and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokeys' on our wheels.
****As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and riding in the front passenger seat - or the boot - was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle, and it tasted the same.
****We ate chips, bread and butter pudding, and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends - from one bottle or can - and no one actually died from it.
****We would spend several hours building go-carts out of scraps, then go top speed down the hill, only to find out we'd forgotten the brakes. After running into a patch of stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
****We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
****We didn't have Playstations or Xboxes - no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape films, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no internet chatrooms.
****We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played French skipping and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones, but there were no law suits.
****We played Knock Down Ginger and were actually afraid of the owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not, walked to school; we didn't rely on Mummy or Daddy to drive us to school, as it was just round the corner.
****We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of seven and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of they actually sided with the law.
****This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem-solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
****And you're one of them.
Congratulations! Pass this on to others who had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and the government regulated our lives for "our own good"
Now let's check if we're getting old...
1) You understand what was written above and you smile.
2) You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3) Your friends are getting married/already married.
4) You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5) When you see children with mobile phones, you shake your head.
I guess that makes me really old.
To quote my friend Freez "outside!!" was a word I spoke from the time I was able to talk. We made tree houses, forts and clubs in the trees. Played hide and seek until our parents were screaming for you to get your butts home. We went camping and slept in a canvas sided tent that always had a little bit of a musty, smokey, wonderful camping smell. In the winter when it was too cold to go outside, we would read, play games or cards. TV was a luxury and we watched it only when there was a good show on. Ok so I am going to age myself..... like The Wonderful World of Disney, or the Hardy Boy and Nancey Drew. ( I had the biggest crush on Shawn Cassidy, lol) And when we finally got the Pong game we could only play it for a half hour.
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 1970s and early 1980s probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was regularly chewed and licked.
****We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles or latches on doors or cabinets, and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokeys' on our wheels.
****As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags and riding in the front passenger seat - or the boot - was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle, and it tasted the same.
****We ate chips, bread and butter pudding, and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends - from one bottle or can - and no one actually died from it.
****We would spend several hours building go-carts out of scraps, then go top speed down the hill, only to find out we'd forgotten the brakes. After running into a patch of stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
****We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
****We didn't have Playstations or Xboxes - no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape films, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no internet chatrooms.
****We had friends - we went outside and found them. We played French skipping and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt! We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones, but there were no law suits.
****We played Knock Down Ginger and were actually afraid of the owners catching us. We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not, walked to school; we didn't rely on Mummy or Daddy to drive us to school, as it was just round the corner.
****We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of seven and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of they actually sided with the law.
****This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem-solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
****And you're one of them.
Congratulations! Pass this on to others who had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and the government regulated our lives for "our own good"
Now let's check if we're getting old...
1) You understand what was written above and you smile.
2) You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3) Your friends are getting married/already married.
4) You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5) When you see children with mobile phones, you shake your head.
I guess that makes me really old.
I grew up with two brothers just younger than myself (there were six of us in all - three girls and three boys). We rode bikes, climbed any tree that looked like a challenge, put baby birds back in their nests, jumped off the roof of the house, climbed up the Apple Tree and sat on the roof swinging our legs eating our fill. We played Touch Football, Basketball, Catch Me If You Can, Cowboy's and Indians, Marbles, Monopoly, Canasta, Rook, Roller skated, Bowled, among other things.
I had a collection of Paper Dolls that would be worth a small fortune now. We would stomp cans onto our heels and walk up and down the concrete driveway driving our mother crazy with the noise.
One time, my older brother and I found a stash of condoms and thought we hit the jackpot. We put them on the faucet in the old claw leg bath tub, filled them with water and hoisted them out the window just to see what they would do. Boy, did we ever get in trouble for that one. We didn't know what they were but they sure looked interesting and we put them to good use.
I learned how to sew when I was nine and made my Walking Doll clothes that were out of this world. The oldest of the two taught himself to play Guitar and the other played Drums. We had a band in our bedroom. Late at night, we could get WLS out of Chicago on our HUGE radio. I Love Lucy was one of my favorite shows and the Flintstones my favorite animation.
We dug holes in the back yard, made mud pies, picked cotton, strawberries, beans and anything else we could find at a "pick it yourself" place. We swam in rivers, creeks and ponds, dove off rocks and virtually had a ball. We received three channels on the TV and they all went off the air around 10PM.
We were the only kids in our area with a Jukebox in our garage. Needless to say, many shoe soles were worn out dancing the summer evenings away with all of the neighborhood kids.
RC Co-Colas and Moon Pies. Peanuts in your Coke. Ah, those were the good old days!
We picked berries and made jelly last week. They said berry picken is more fun than mushroom hunting cause they are easier to find, lol.
I take them fishing and swimming and they play under the big maple tree, climb to the top and they have a rope. We walk down to the creek so they can try to catch minnows and crawdads.
I'm not bragging, but things are not like they used to be, but I try to hold onto the basics as much as I can. It's all about technology anymore. I feel sorry for our kids these days. No respect, no disapline, but you ask my grandkids what Nana's whippin stick is and they know exactally what you're talking about. Thanks for reminessing about the good old days. Good luck with your surgury, I'll say a prayer for you!
Yep, I am old.
I wonder if your 'french skipping' was the same as our 'double dutch'? with two ropes?
I remember hours and hours of skipping in the street, moving only when a car came slowly down the street. skipping in clogs - and the chunky clunk they made! wonder we didn't break our necks!
and the dickdee man! selling icecream on his bicycle thingy!
yep, those were the good old days!
Thanks for the post and nostalgic thoughts!
best wishes and best of luck on your surgery today!