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Close your eyes.. And go back...
Before the Internet or the MAC
Before semi-automatics and crack
Before chronic and indo
Before Sega or Super Nintendo
Way back...
To the Commodore 64, if you were rich..
I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk
Hot bread and butter
The ice cream man (only after dinner)
The water ice truck
Doin' steps
Red light, Green light
Pretzel Day at school
Recess
Chocolate milk
Lunch tickets
The first time you got on the big swings
Catch a girl - kiss a girl - OOOOOH!
Penny candy in a brown paper bag
Playin' Pacman in the corner store
Hopscotch
Butterscotch
Double dutch
A Chinese rope made from rubber bands
Jacks
Kick ball
Stick ball
Dodge ball y'all!
Mother may I?
Rain-bow ice cream
Chinese apples
Candy apples
Apple Jacks
Hoola hoops and sunflower seeds
10 packs of Kool-Aid for a dollar
Jolly Ranchers
Blow pops
Ring pops
What about grape and watermelon Now-Laters??
The water plug (I can't get wet! All right well don't wet my
hair..)
The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips...
Wait...
Watching Saturday morning cartoons:
Fat Albert
Road Runner
He-man
Josie and the Pussy Cats
The Three Stooges
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
Playin' tops or sling shot
When around the corner seemed far away and goin' downtown seemed
like goin' somewhere
Bedtimes
Climbing trees
Cornrows with beads and foil
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Cops and robbers
Cowboys and Indians (we didn't know the real story back then)
When you wanted a Schwinn - but only had a Freespirit
G. I. Joe with the Kung-Fu Grip
The cabbage patch craze??!!
Homemade skateboards
Sittin' on the curb
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin' on the bed
Pillow fights
Being tickled to death
Running 'til you were out of breath
Laughing so hard your stomach really hurt
Being tired-from playing
Remember that?
I ain't finished just yet...
Capn' Crunch and Fruit Loops came way befo' Apple Jacks!!
What about going to the candy store (dill pickles with a
peppermint stick, mmmm especially HOT pickles!! hot sausages, pigs
feet..)
What about crowding in a circle around the "after
school fight" then running when the teacher came...
What about the girl who had the big-bubbly handwriting??
"Evil Kneivel" wind-up motorbikes
"Hot Wheels" race car sets
"Big Wheels"
Chemistry sets (trying to make explosives and getting purple stuff)
Radio Shack ? AM/FM radio kits
Burning ants with a magnifying glass
Graham crackers & milk
Picking wild blackberries
Putting pennies on railroad tracks and watching them get smashed
Skipping rocks on a lake
Tackle football and grass stains
Last, but not least, Saturday afternoon
"Sooooooouuuuulllll Train!"
Remember..
Your moms made you pick out the switch that you was going
to get whipped with
You used to think that wrestling was real
The kid who never wanted to play football with the fellas, but
chose to jump rope with the girls
If you acted up, your mother would whip you on the spot -
no matter where you were
Those people who got Jheri Curls ?
Momma driving past McDonald's every time
"Toughskins" (I had 'dem joints!)
When you got a hole in your pants, you didn't get new
ones-you got a patch that didn't match
Your momma would cook turkey for Thanksgiving and stretch
it out for 2 weeks until it was gone
Eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar
Jumping people's fences to pick apples, plums or grapes
or..
The brotha' that had the best break dancing suits -
but couldn't dance..
Somebody getting into a fight every year at the family reunion
Throwing rocks at the neighbor's dog
How moms burned up the toast, scraped off the black
stuff, and said, "A little burnt toast is good for you"
Asking your father for something after moms already said, No!"
You can't forget..
"I Ain't Gone Bump No Mo' With a Big Fat Woman"
"Double Dutch Bus Coming Down the Street"
"Clap your hands everybody if you got what it takes,
cuz I'm Kurtis Blow and I want you to know that these are the
BREAKS.."
Solid Gold (Dionne Warwick, Marilyn McCoo and ARSENIO HALL)
Blade Collars (don't front)
Going to bed at 9pm
DISLIKING the opposite sex
Stretch Armstrong (for the brotha's)
Lyte Brite (so as not to neglect the sista's)
"Snoopy Come Home" (who all cried?)
Going to see any Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby movie AT
the theater
There's more, but hey...
THIS FELT REAL GOOD JUST TO GO BACK IN TIME FOR 2 MINUTES AND SAY
YEAHHHHHH, I REMEMBER THAT! WHAT EVER HAPPENED??????
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