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mastermargarita -> RE: A Goody For The Oldtimers (12/30/2006 2:50:23 PM)
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Ahhhhhhhh. Thanks for the trip back in time!
Halloween was a time to gather with your buddies and go as a group. We would walk all over town and get home around 1130 at night. No one worried about someone kidnapping us. The only thing we worried about was getting a piece of fruit somewhere instead of candy. LOL....
Dodgeball wasnt a sport, it was a way of life for a while in junior high.
Summer was made for wandering all over coming back home in time for supper, then head back out till the moon and stars were out. Then it was time for hide and seek.
Like the others stated, I walked everywhere until I got my bicycle for my birthday....then
it was ride all over town....and being responsible enough not to run anyone over, get in the way of traffic, etc....if you did any of those things, that was a sure way to lose the privilidge of riding.
School was something that you had to attend, and do well at. If you accomplished something good in school then you were rewarded with something special at home, a treat of some kind...never got paid for good grades. But if you did something bad at school and was punished.......then you were punished at home.
Allowances were earned by doing chores at the house, not because you were entitled to them, and if you wanted something that was more than what you got, you either saved for it, or went out and earned the money by doing odd jobs.
T. V. was fun..........4 channels.......three networks and pbs......and if the president was on................the night was shot......it was on every channel including pbs.
God, how did we survive without these things now, that kids take for granted???
Ipods, video game players, portable game players, portable dvd players, to take on trips.
Thanks again for the trip to the past...its time to get in the time machine go back and start a snowball fight complete with snow forts...got to get the snowshovels ready to use as catapults.......[:D]
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