Posted by
Doug Breazeale on Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:06:41 PM
1) Buying a soda, a candy bar, a bag of peanuts and a pack of cards and it cost less than half a dollar.
2) Summer drinks made of real lemons, water and real sugar and sold for a nickel.
3) Walking along a creek with water in it that you could drink and not get sick from.
4) Hearing the chuch bells on Christmas morning ringing loudly across the cold wintry landscape.
5) Sunday afternoon picnics in the mountains with your family.
6) Going to the movies and watching a real American legend like John Wayne.
7) Saturday Morning cerals like Flash Gordon, Roy Rogers or the Three Stooges.
8) Knowing the people that lived in your neighborhood as a friend.
9) Never wanting for your parents love only for tomorrow to hurry up and come so you could have as much fun.
Too many children today never realized that you can enjoy life without having a lot.
They are taught to be afraid or fear those who they should love.
I feel sorry for those who did not have the same things I did:
The only windows we had were open to let the fresh air in.
A video was home made movie on an 8 mm screen that flickered and mainly was silent except for our laughter.
A vacation was special and always consisted of realtives not seen for long times.
An I pod had peas in it.
Cell phones were at jails.
Pot was full of stew.
Coke was a soda.
Pills were what old people took when they had the dropsy.
Rap was what you did to a present.
If your mouse was lazy, they cat had him for lunch.
If you went hyper an adult would apply the brakes to your britches.
Anti's were associated with the book of Revelations.
Women were women and men were men, and those who were odd kept it in the bedroom.
If a parent said no, you never thought of calling the police or suing them.
Suits were worn by men not brought on over a hot pickle in the drive thru.
Fast food was the speed at which it was eaten and never prepared.
Getting Milk consisted of a walk to the barn very early in the morning with a pail.
Microwaves were in comic books.
Televisions came in black and white or blacker and whiter.
Cream was in coffee.
Getting Down was what you did from a tree without breaking a leg or arm.
So maybe you have more today than I did, but you sure missed a lot of fun days and night without care or fear. I wouldn't trade that for all your new toys.