Close your eyes and go back Before the Internet or the MAC, Before semi automatics and
crack, Before SEGA or Super Nintendo... Way back....... I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk. Red light,
Green light. Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on. Mother May I? Red Rover Hula
Hoops Running through the sprinkler Happy Meals Wait...... Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons Fat Albert,
Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos Playing Dukes of Hazard
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar Christmas morning....... Your first day of school Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight
Kisses Climbing trees Getting an Ice Cream off the Ice Cream Truck A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin down the steps Jumpin on the bed Pillow fights Running till you were out of breath Laughing so
hard that your stomach hurt Being tired from playin'... Your first crush... Rainy days at school meant playing
"Heads up 7Up" in the class room Remember that? I'm not finished yet... Kool-aid was the drink of summer Totting
your friends on your handle bars Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school Class Field Trips When nearly
everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance, and another quarter a
miracle. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even
the kid, thought a thing of it. When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were so cool. When being sent to the
principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. I want to go back
to the time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming,
"do over!" "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker
in "Monopoly" Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best"
friends. Being old referred to anyone over 20. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
Nobody was prettier than Mom. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. It was a big deal to finally be
tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. Abilities
were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare" Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Older siblings
were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors. Close your eyes and go back.
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