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porcelaine -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:02:28 AM)
i remember... when the newspaper was barely a quarter. reading it was required in our home and inevitably lead to my frustration about not having a horse when i reached the section advertising items for sale. this was always a pleasurable moment for my parents - not! going to get gas with Daddy and being tempted to step on the accelerator but seeing him glance back at me as i sat waiting in the car and deciding not to do so. i believe that was my most important submissive act. when potato chips were a quarter and the bag was the same size that you get now for 99 cents! traipsing around the golf course with Daddy and wondering why i was stuck in the blazing sun while he hit that ridiculous ball. i look upon this with great fondness when i learned that my grandfather taught him the sport. i would come to share his love for the game and develop the same in my daughter by honing her skills competitively. four generations exist with one common bond. the portrait my aunt sketched of me as a child when i was no more than six or seven that still hangs in my grandparents home to this day. it is a source of pride whenever i see it and a testament of their love for me. i'm their favorite. visits with my aunt and our infamous dining and shopping excursions. her influence has imprinted my life in so many ways. she is responsible for creating the discerning lady with impeccable taste and breeding. these things were honed under her watchful eyes. going to the beach with my best friend and staying too long. getting horribly sunburned, losing our money, unable to contact our parents that evening and being forced to walk home instead. it was the funniest thing and we laughed the entire time. having my first crush on an adult while working as a volunteer in the hospital. he ate lunch with my best friend and i often and we all liked him. he was kind, attractive, charismatic, and very generous. i believe i discovered my feminine wiles that summer. watching mummy prepare dinner and get things in order for the three of us. i recall thinking to myself this is a lot of work and i'll never have more than one. i kept that promise. porcelaine

zephyroftheNorth -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:02:53 AM)
I remember walking towards my sister's hospital room and catching sight of my niece for the first time. She was lying on my brother-in-law's chest and was so tiny that she literally looked like a doll. She had a full head of hair and shocking blue eyes which never changed. That was when I learned what real love is.

TwistedHeart74 -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:31:45 AM)
Learning how to bake with Grandma using only a wooden spoon and a real china tea cup for a measuring cup..."Now just a dash of this honey....a pinch of that...a handful of the other..." Jumping out of the hayloft into a huge pile of hay at Grandpa's farm. Catching lightning bugs and smooshing them onto our faces so we glowed like they did. (Gross sure, but we were kids [:)]) Sitting on Grandpa's lap, listening to his old records of the Singing Cowboys, smelling his cherry vanilla pipe tobacco...that smell still brings tears to my eyes. Dancing with mom all night long on music nights. The aunt and uncle and cousins would come over, we'd have a big dinner and they'd stack records on the player. She taught me to dance like nobody was watching and not to care if they were.

BKSir -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:41:53 AM)
You're from a hillbilly family too, ain'cha Twisted? [;)] There's one song in particular that makes me think of grandpa. Orange Blossom Special. He'd play the hell out of that. Grandma would get so pissed off, she'd be out in the front of the house trying to talk and I'd be back in his room and he'd have me pull out his fiddle from under the bed and hand it to him, and he'd play for me, and anyone else in the house, whether they liked it or not. I think that's half of why he did it too, just to push their buttons. He was an ornery ol' s.o.b. that way sometimes. [:D] Hm, wonder where I get it from...

zephyroftheNorth -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:42:05 AM)
Food shopping on Saturday mornings with my father. We would leave before anyone else was up, go to Steinberg's (long since gone) and then to the market to buy veggies and fruits. It was always just the two of us, noone else was allowed.

Phoenixpower -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:46:17 AM)
...when once your teeth popped out or got pulled out another one was growing right underneath to replace it...I miss those days... [&o]

TwistedHeart74 -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:47:38 AM)
chuckles Grew up in southern Illinois. I was 10 before I knew you could buy eggs at a store...we got them from walking out to the coop and risking fingers! I remember getting baby chicks for Easter one year...Daddy had used food coloring to dye them different colors. They were adorable! My brother and I got to raise them then help when it came time to...ahem..process them. Learned at a young age there are pets, then there is dinner on the hoof LOL

BKSir -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:48:31 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Phoenixpower ...when once your teeth popped out or got pulled out another one was growing right underneath to replace it...I miss those days... [&o] Or the days where you could just have your uncle pull one of your teeth with a pair of pliers and it didn't friggin hurt. Wouldn't that be nice... >.< (I feel your pain hon, literally, I have three busted chompers myself)

SubOnlyForHim -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:51:44 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: TwistedHeart74 chuckles Grew up in southern Illinois. I was 10 before I knew you could buy eggs at a store...we got them from walking out to the coop and risking fingers! I remember getting baby chicks for Easter one year...Daddy had used food coloring to dye them different colors. They were adorable! My brother and I got to raise them then help when it came time to...ahem..process them. Learned at a young age there are pets, then there is dinner on the hoof LOL Southern Illinoisian myself....Seriously, you can buy eggs at a store? Dang!

SubOnlyForHim -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:54:33 AM)
playing in the cemetery, having slumber parties there and my aunt freaking out about it.

HatesParisHilton -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 3:58:00 AM)
I remember when Halloween didn't have so many "worries". I remember the first time I smelled Ocean water when my grandfather took me to the beach before I was 2. I remember a Groperfish that had to be twice my size look like it was about to swallow me in one gulp, and before the fear could take over, it's big lips and eyes did something "quirky" and suddenly I was distracted by how much it looked like Edward G. Robinson...

Phoenixpower -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 4:03:35 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BKSir quote: ORIGINAL: Phoenixpower ...when once your teeth popped out or got pulled out another one was growing right underneath to replace it...I miss those days... [&o] Or the days where you could just have your uncle pull one of your teeth with a pair of pliers and it didn't friggin hurt. Wouldn't that be nice... >.< (I feel your pain hon, literally, I have three busted chompers myself) Well, thanks but I don't miss your mentioned days pulling out wise...once the fucking person did that to me whose job it was to straighten my teeth...we had agreed that I will go to the dentist to have another one removed (in those days it was due to space problem in my mouth) and then this bitch decided to push it out...if my parents would not have behaved blind about my missing front tooth she would have been sued that bitch as this was in no way in her job description and she had in no way my permission either!!! But when you are small and your parents don't care then people like her get away with such behaviour...thats called life... But thanks BK...personally I am glad that at least I know now where I stand with that tooth (as it isnt a solution kind of...lets try this and if it hurts you just come back) and as this fellow was living far behind in my mouth nobody realises it in daily life...but I just hate that we don't have a crocodile mouth where teeth get just replaced...life felt easier in those days [&o]

Wolf2Bear -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 7:32:58 AM)
I recall: - bag of chips cost 5 cents and a bottle of pop cost a dime and the cooler used water to keep the pop chilled and you had to drag the pop over to the dispenser and insert your money before you could pull out your bottle of pop (came in glass bottles) - going to school in a one room school house during grade 1 - Saturday afternoon movies cost 25 cents, played a few cartoons, a news reel and then the main feature. - collecting cardboard boxes and heading to the Hudson Bay store as they would buy back all boxes that weren't damaged or dirty from us. - milk was delivered to your door early in the morning, came in glass bottles with a cardboard seal - Topo Gigo - Red Skeleton show.

HatesParisHilton -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 7:55:12 AM)
Don Knots Disney movies! The Flip Wilson Show, "The Devil Made Me Do It!" banana-seat bikes! comics were people actually had to know how to DRAW! movie posters made by artists, not photoshop drones! summers that smelled like clean soil, dust, musk and fruit!

Wolf2Bear -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 8:02:25 AM)
two dollars bought you almost 3 lbs worth of penny candy

BKSir -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 1:53:08 PM)
I woke up with that unmistakable smell of autumn turning rapidly into winter in the air, and the first thought I had was, "something is missing". I figured out almost instantly what it is. We used to have this kerosine heater when I was a kid, and it had this scent to it. An almost pleasing one actually, and I remember waking up on cold mornings smelling the chill in the air combined with that, and remember just wanting to smile and go back to sleep, because everything seemed right with the world somehow.

GreedyTop -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 10:14:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BKSir Quite so, but, how mind blowing, really, was the original Jonny Quest? The background animation in that was simply phenomenal. I remember every time it would come on, I would hear the theme music, and everything would suddenly become instantly less important. >.> Still does. [:D] KImba was the same way, IIRC....

HatesParisHilton -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 10:17:29 PM)
For Greedy and Level: (I remember when Dave McKean had to just PAINT and no software was used... OOOO! bad Hiltie!)

GreedyTop -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 10:27:32 PM)
:) Hiltie... Being about 5 or so, at my grandparents house outside Philly, during the spring and summer when it was naptime for me having the wondows open in the bedroom and feeling the breezes, hearing the drones of small planes overhead, the sounds of neighbors lawnmowers, birds. Also, nights there, when my Grandfather would take me outside to star gaze (I have NEVER been able to see both the Dippers at the same time.. but I can always find Orion). Driving to their house, stretched out on the backseat of the car, watching the sky through the rear window. It got so I knew when Mom and I were almost there, by the tree branches.. when I was a toddler, before my folks divorced, one morning mom had to take Dad to the Base (I think we may have been in Albuquerque then?), and I remember her holding me as the sun came up, and I had a baggie of fruit loops (ALLIGATOR baggie!).

HatesParisHilton -> RE: I Remember... (10/23/2009 10:33:08 PM)
oooo! OOOOOOO! (Bugs Bunny voice): "ALLLL buh KOY Kee???" Did you ever get to see Zozobra Fest in Santa Fe????? (I told Neil about it, even HE was jealous!!!!)

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