Summer vacation Stevens and Pruitt...they were funny then Sneaking out at night and roaming the streets of Greenwood Forest Saturday am cartoons...Bugs Bunny Roadrunner hour ------------------
I miss my Dad's old VW Rabbit. The horn broke one summer and whenever he drove somewhere the horn would randomly start honking and people would be ducking out of the way and wonder what the hell was wrong with my dad. My dad just kept on driving with a huge grin on his face and I was in the passenger seat laughing my head off. ------------------ Ni ai chou mei!
I miss not really knowing any more about sports than who I wanted to win, and the names of the players. Sports were more fun when I didn't know anything about the players other than their names, numbers, and relative abilities. Nowadays, I watch a game, and I'm thinking, "Wife beater passes to DWI... DWI goes around screen set by guy who called the fans 'jerks'... runs into that guy who held out for six months..." It was more fun when all I knew about guys like Mike Tomczak and Keith Byars and Cris Carter was that they were my heroes.
OH childhood !!!!!!!! those days were beautiful. It has been so long ago but sometimes it feels as if it was just yesturday I would be watching cartoons on a saturday morning or watching karatee movies on Sundays at 12pm (or was it 1pm)on channel 26. I miss riding my bike w/my friends and talking about everything without saying anything meaningful, I miss the liberty of not having to worry about anything except having to be home before the sun went down, I miss seeing my parents when they were younger and more full of energy specially my dad. I miss having lots of birthday gifts everytime I would turn one yr. closer to my current age (33)... I would trade any of those gifts, including my bike, if I could travel back in time for at least one week and have my childhood back to remind me what made me what I am today and probably appreciate life as it currently stands. Just don't forget one thing and that is that we all,in one way or another,have that child inside of us alive and kicking, if it wasn't we would't be here! As I always say "the day the child within me dies is the day I die!" ------------------ When will I reach 1000 posts ?
BrianKagy.. I know what you mean. I'm only 18 but have been out of that not knowing much about them besides their ability stage for a while. what age did you start to know more than just a little about the players? ------------------ Shane "Save Our Rockets" "Life without basketball in Houston........without an arena that is what it will be"
The biggest thing I missed is the "care free" part. Couldn't agree more!!! My wife complains that I often act like a kid, I would always reply that "Yes, but it's the same kid that you felled for." ------------------ 15 years later... Zoom
briankagy... Too young here to remember anything about him I guess. Another thing I guess I miss is the time before I met whatever athlete. It's gotten to the point that I can hardly enjoy watchin a player play after I've met him and saw him be rude to a fan etc.. ------------------ Shane "Save Our Rockets" "Life without basketball in Houston........without an arena that is what it will be"
I miss all the free beer... ------------------ Protrolls.com! I wish I could come up with a decent signature, but I can't. You'll just have to live with this one.
Transformers He-Man Atari 2600 and... You Can't Do That On Television! ------------------ "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and STATISTICS..." - Mark Twain -
That sounds a lot like my life right now. The only difference is that I think cartoons are better now than they were when I was a kid. All we had was Schmoo and Scrappy Doo to call our own (and I recall watching a show called "Galaxy High" at one point). I didn't much care for my childhood as much. There were several things that I enjoyed, but overall, I prefer my life now. ------------------
Just watch "The Wonder Years" ------------------ "For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet
I miss childhood already . Most of all, I miss having the imagination of a child and a great backyard to excersise it in. We lived in the country, and had about 90 acres of forest, a pond and fields. It was heaven for a kid. We'd make up our own stories, and play all sorts of games back there. ------------------ Newbiehad... coming to a bbs near you, October 31st. [This message has been edited by haven (edited June 26, 2001).]
I'm gonna show my age some.... All of these things have been mentioned in this thread. And none of these things existed when I was a kid: 20 cent stamps, 7 digit phone numbers (we dialed 5), 25 cent cokes, smurfs, transformers, mall arcades, 93Q, Splashtown, USA channel (cable? what is cable?), Stevens and Pruett (They were Hudson and Harrigon then), Atari (we were FASCINATED when "Pong" first came out.) But as for things I miss? Fireflies, fireworks in your backyard, chasing the chickens, catching crawdads, my bicycle with the banana seat, and watching all my aunts and uncles gather for the night to throw washers and get drunk. Man, I miss those days! ------------------ Beware the blank post! Ain't Miss Be haven!
Did you have "Sissy Bar" on it too? What about the baseball cards in the spokes for the motorcycle effect? And the towel as a cape for the Batman effect? ------------------ "For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet
Great song lyrics for my 4000th post OLD DAYS -J. Pankow- CHICAGO Old days Good times I remember, Fun days, Filled with ship of pleasure Drive-in movies, Comic books and blue jeans, Howdy Doody Baseball cards and birthdays, Please take me back, To the world gone away Memories, Seem like yesterday Old days, Good times I remember Gold days, Days I'll always treasure Funny faces, Full of love and laughter Funny places, Summer nights and streetcars Take me back, To the world gone away Our good memories, Seem like yesterday Old days... ------------------ "For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet
The town where my Mother lives only went to seven-digit dialing from five-digit dilaing in 1993, so one doesn't have to be too old to necessarily remember five-digit dialing. It all depends on where one lived (and, for the record, I can still dial just seven numbers for local calls. SWB keeps telling us that we have to dial all nine soon, but I haven't yet noticed that to be the fact. Of course, I can't remember the last time I called someone local, either). ------------------
This is something I posted a while back... it pretty much reminds me of everythin I miss from when I was a kid. To whom it may concern ---------------------- I hereby officially tender my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 6 year old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them. I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big Oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summers' day. I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things that should make you worried and upset. I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. Somewhere in my youth... I matured and I learned too much. I learned of nuclear weapons, war, prejudice, starvation and abused children. I learned of lies, unhappy marriages, suffering, illness, pain and death. I learned of a world where men left their families to go and fight for our country, and returned only to end up living on the streets... begging for their next meal. I learned of a world where children knew how to kill... and did! What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live forever, because we didn't grasp the concept of death? When we thought the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball? I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by little things once again. I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean. When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment and not to promote sex, violence and deceit. I remember being naive and thinking that everyone was happy because I was. I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and the prettiest seashell I could find. I would spend my afternoons climbing trees and riding my bike. I didn't worry about time, bills or where I was going to find the money to fix my car. I used to wonder what I was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind and making angels in the snow. I want to be 6 again. ------------------ Signature service is only $29.95
