If reading this brings a smile then you have lived

[lunati397]

Remember these?

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 & dodge ball 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
Runnin ' 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 classroom
Remember that?

I'm not finished yet...
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars
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.

Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by shooting s, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of us are still afraid of em!

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that!"

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 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, ultimate weapon.
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!

[4348rd]

I can remember all of them

[JCswm]

I can remember all of them
Me to!! life was good!!

[lunati397]

kids today have no idea how good we had it when we had nothing

[300Plus.net]

Those were the best days ever to grow up in!!! life was good

[96s10]

Playing Dukes of Hazard

only one i didn't do

[4348rd]

only one i didn't do
I jumped the bridge at 7 bridges in a vega the landing was terrible car nearly folded in half

[93zm6tally]

kids today have no idea how good we had it when we had nothing

I wouldn't say we had nothing. Instead of computer games and the internet we played baseball, football, anything out in the street. I was never in the house during summer vacation. One of my sons sadly spends most of his summer days in front of the computer playing online video games. This would have been torture for me. Part of it seems to me that neighborhoods weren't so spread out. Most of my friends lived within two or three blocks.

[96s10]

i would stay inside and watch the price is right, and that was all the tv i would watch. we would play basketball or ride bikes or play baseball all day.

[4348rd]

i would stay inside and watch the price is right, and that was all the tv i would watch. we would play basketball or ride bikes or play baseball all day.
you can still watch the price is right , I seen it on the other day bob barker is about 80 years old

[96s10]

oh i still watch it. gotta love plinko.

[93zm6tally]

You guys ever play 500. Where someone just hits a ball and grounders are worth 50 Popups 100, Line drives 150. When you won you got to bat. Used to have some very good times doing that in the street with bunch of guys.

[brandboZ28]

You guys ever play 500. Where someone just hits a ball and grounders are worth 50 Popups 100, Line drives 150. When you won you got to bat. Used to have some very good times doing that in the street with bunch of guys.
Hell yea. We called it Jackpot because the batter had the choise of calling "jackpot" one time and it was a moneyball...whoever caught it automatically got to bat. :lol:

There were a couple things on the list I didnt do but for the most part, I recall a fair amount of memories doing that kind of stuff.

[BreBar21]

oh i still watch it. gotta love plinko.

Plinko > *. It's a life long dream of mine to play plinko.

[BreBar21]

Hell yea. We called it Jackpot because the batter had the choise of calling "jackpot" one time and it was a moneyball...whoever caught it automatically got to bat. :lol:

There were a couple things on the list I didnt do but for the most part, I recall a fair amount of memories doing that kind of stuff.

Ahhhh....500. I LOVED that game growning up. We always did "jackpot" as well. We would play it almost anything. Throw a football into a mass of people and call what it was worth.

What about "butts up??" Anyone play that??

[J8127]

What about "butts up??" Anyone play that??

Just you and Chase.

[SingleSlammerEX]

i miss those days so much...playing cops and robbers, jackpot, football (two hand touch in the street, tackle in the grass..)..anyone ever play stick ball?

life was def. good back then

[BreBar21]

Just you and Chase.

Clever.

[SloNLo_350]

Hell yea. We called it Jackpot because the batter had the choise of calling "jackpot" one time and it was a moneyball...whoever caught it automatically got to bat. :lol:

There were a couple things on the list I didnt do but for the most part, I recall a fair amount of memories doing that kind of stuff.
Same here!!! We did it more with football though. And then in the pool (we lived in an apartment) and you'd run and dive into the pool to catch the ball. We were doing that at my house the other day when a few people came over for my birthday. That was good times. I did learn that Jared can't throw a football for shit, though. As my friend Chris said, "Yeah, no wonder you were a kicker!" :mrgreen:

[Osceola16]

Keep the dirty thought to yourselves

Anyone ever play Smear the Qwer?? We had a blast playing that in school. Throw the ball to someone you didnt like..and FU*K EM UP!

Ever notice a size difference in some of the games you played? I can remember playing football and baseball in a field next to a friends house. During baseball it seemed like it took all ya had to hit a homer, or in football, running a touchdown seem like a mile long!....Now...riding by the fields, I see now that it was so small it aint funny. The field probably wasnt 25-40 yards long....but back then...it was endless....

[TurboL67]

Memories..

I grew up too fast...

[fatkid]

No +1 you fucktard.

[slowLX]

...playing cops and robbersi had a little red front-wheel-pedal-drive and rear-steering car that could do the sickest powerslides. i wore the plastic wheels out doing slides into the "robbers" who were on bikes. that thing was sick! i pimped it until the sides of the tires folded in because the centers wore completely out....i was like 12-13 by that point

[Osceola16]

We use to play some kool ass games at school.

Heads up Seven Up
War ball
That Red Rover game(Ever thought about how dangerous that game was?)



Heres one....How many people ever played the Make truck sounds while spinning out with your shoes game? Man...when it rained...we use to go mud-boggin in the nikes! make some bad ass revving sounds...FORD of course :mrgreen: . I can remember several occasions getting in trouble because I spun mud on the back of my clothes. :kinson:

[BreBar21]

What about "butts up??" Anyone play that??

I'll explain what it was, maybe you guys called it something else.

You had however many people, a wall (usually the side of a brick house), and a tennis ball. One person would throw the ball at the house and if someone bobbled the ball trying to catch it, they had to drop the ball and run and try and touch the wall before another person hit the wall with the ball. If the person hit the wall before you got there, you had to go stand facing the wall while that person threw the ball at you and tried to inflict some bodily harm. If a person If someone caught a throw on no bounces, it was automatically a "butts up" against the wall.

I realize it doesn't sound that fun, but it was.

Another awesome past time when I was younger was we would go into the woods by our house to build tree forts. Basically, we would just go and cut shit down. HUGE trees, start fires, etc.

[Osceola16]

I'll explain what it was, maybe you guys called it something else.

You had however many people, a wall (usually the side of a brick house), and a tennis ball. One person would throw the ball at the house and if someone bobbled the ball trying to catch it, they had to drop the ball and run and try and touch the wall before another person hit the wall with the ball. If the person hit the wall before you got there, you had to go stand facing the wall while that person threw the ball at you and tried to inflict some bodily harm. If a person If someone caught a throw on no bounces, it was automatically a "butts up" against the wall.

I realize it doesn't sound that fun, but it was.

Another awesome past time when I was younger was we would go into the woods by our house to build tree forts. Basically, we would just go and cut shit down. HUGE trees, start fires, etc.
Us perry folk gave that a high-tech name...It was called wall-ball. That was awesome to. Almost throwing the arm out, trying to leave a welp on someone.

[BreBar21]

Us perry folk gave that a high-tech name...It was called wall-ball. That was awesome to. Almost throwing the arm out, trying to leave a welp on someone.

Yeah, we would call it wall ball sometimes too.

[lunati397]

I remember leaving the house at like 9 in the morning and not coming back home till about 7 or 8 at night sometimes later Id go to the beach and fish all day or my favorite dig real deep holes on the sandbar at low tide and as the tide came back in people would be walking and not notice it and fall face first in like 1 foot of water.

I do not know how i would go the whole day on no food and maybe a coke from the store and have more energy than I could think of now.

GOD what would I give to go back to 1988 and live those days again

[lunati397]

I wouldn't say we had nothing. Instead of computer games and the internet we played baseball, football, anything out in the street. I was never in the house during summer vacation. One of my sons sadly spends most of his summer days in front of the computer playing online video games. This would have been torture for me. Part of it seems to me that neighborhoods weren't so spread out. Most of my friends lived within two or three blocks.


not that we didnt have nothing but I can remeber that just haveing the red rubber ball was more than what we needed to have a full days entertainment not a PSP laptop with wireless online gaming ect

[SRT-SHOPE]

All nice stuff :D

[4348rd]

my favorite was when parents were not at home, a red head down the street , a blond next door etc Doctor -n- Nurse and we don't need to talk about the sitter

[Greg Kulbick]

I'll explain what it was, maybe you guys called it something else.

You had however many people, a wall (usually the side of a brick house), and a tennis ball. One person would throw the ball at the house and if someone bobbled the ball trying to catch it, they had to drop the ball and run and try and touch the wall before another person hit the wall with the ball. If the person hit the wall before you got there, you had to go stand facing the wall while that person threw the ball at you and tried to inflict some bodily harm. If a person If someone caught a throw on no bounces, it was automatically a "butts up" against the wall.

I realize it doesn't sound that fun, but it was.

Another awesome past time when I was younger was we would go into the woods by our house to build tree forts. Basically, we would just go and cut shit down. HUGE trees, start fires, etc.

We called in burn ball and played it on racquet ball courts. Remember kill the man with the ball, too?

[Octane]

How bout Grass boarding, using a 4 weeler and a bent up piece of metal and hauling ass in the Grass..

what about 4 square remember that game,

how bout some old school stuff like freeze-tag or Hide n go seek.. Man I can remember those days..

[Kinson Cook, Jr]

Yes, the good old days.
I remember during the summers we would be outside until the folks made us come in. None of this "why don't you go out and play a while" stuff like today. We lived at Lake Talquiin during the summers and played in the woods and water the whole time. Great times for sure.

[Greg Kulbick]

I wish I was seven again. All I had to worry about was coming home when the street lights came on.

[Octane]

well i am from a small town.. (Day) not very many ppl there.. I can remember going down to the courts as we called it rode our bicycles and skates played basketball, with just about every neihborhood kid, fun times. when It got to were we couldnt see then we came home.

Or if you lived Near the suwannee river like I did we would go to the springs and swim all day.. Man that is some cold water.. sure did feel good on those hot summer days..

[brandboZ28]

Us perry folk gave that a high-tech name...It was called wall-ball. That was awesome to. Almost throwing the arm out, trying to leave a welp on someone.
Thats what I called it too. I got many-a-bruises from that game. :lol:

[4348rd]

well i am from a small town.. (Day) not very many ppl there.. I can remember going down to the courts as we called it rode our bicycles and skates played basketball, with just about every neihborhood kid, fun times. when It got to were we couldnt see then we came home.

Or if you lived Near the suwannee river like I did we would go to the springs and swim all day.. Man that is some cold water.. sure did feel good on those hot summer days..
I remember a old store in Day it is gone now but a 10 ounce returnable mountain dew would have ice in it it was on the corner of 53 and 27

[SloNLo_350]

Thats what I called it too. I got many-a-bruises from that game. :lol:
Yeah, we'd play that in school, and usually the PE coach would let us get away with it unless there was a sub or a woman coach out there, then they would make us play, "Hand Ball" or make us use a 4 square ball or something. But when we got that big rubber ball, that only meant at some point, somone's head was bouncing off the wall.
The guys that live below me were playing the other day against the side of the apartment, and I wanted to join in, but I had class... plus the wall they had sucked. They called it "Sting".

[TurboStutr]

i loved playing "red rover" and "pickle" at the bus stop before school...and my younger brother and i used to "borrow" wood and nails from construction sites in the neighborhood so we could build tree houses in the woods behind our house. they were never really good, but it was fun coming home and having our dad just shake his head when we asked for a couple hammers, hehe. and we had a canal in the front of our neighborhood and fished next to the bridge. i swear whoever got the first cast in automatically caught the first fish, every single time. and after a long hard rain, we'd go surfing in the ditches in our yard and catch tadpoles and keep them till they grew into frogs. good times indeed :D

[Baldy]

Our neighborhood was right next to springwood elementary, we would hop the fence on weekends and play on the b-ball courts or play wall-ball. The janitors working after hours would tell us what walls not to hit because of security systems and such. We would also ride our bikes all over the campus, for games like hide n seek. Until people kicked us out, and we couldn't go back or they'd call the cops.

We also tried building a tree house in the wooded area behind our house, until the owners of the land kicked us out, made us yank all the boards from the tree, and threatened to call the cops if we were caught on the property again.

When we were too old for summer camp, and too young for jobs, we would walk or ride bikes around town. I mean from Capital Circle NW to downtown, and eventually back before night. We walked to the malls, and called our mom to pick us up after she got off work. The worst was when we had scrounged up enough change to see a movie, walked all the way to the mall, and they upped the prices at AMC. We weren't the kind of kids to sneak in, either.

[SingleSlammerEX]

I'll explain what it was, maybe you guys called it something else.

You had however many people, a wall (usually the side of a brick house), and a tennis ball. One person would throw the ball at the house and if someone bobbled the ball trying to catch it, they had to drop the ball and run and try and touch the wall before another person hit the wall with the ball. If the person hit the wall before you got there, you had to go stand facing the wall while that person threw the ball at you and tried to inflict some bodily harm. If a person If someone caught a throw on no bounces, it was automatically a "butts up" against the wall.

I realize it doesn't sound that fun, but it was

we use to play that at the bus stop all the time, but we called it "sting" cause we had the rubber racket balls that stung like hell when you got hit..haha

and my brother and i use to go hide up on the roof when we played guns and watch everyone run around looking for us..

we use to have this huge ass tree in the back yard next to ours, we had like 4 forts going on in that thing, plus a rope swing that went across the canal..but they got scared the tree would mess up their house in a hurricane, so they cut it down, NOT COOL...man now i'm really missing those days

[madderhatter]

Can't forget the "real" GI-Joes - the ones with the realistic hair. I used to have this badass black 4x4 w/camper on the back that was made for them. It came with lots of cool accessories. Well the newness lasted about a week and then it was time to put Joe in the front seat and tie the truck to the back of the bike with about 30 feet of clothes line. Then off through the neighborhood and around corners with Joe in tow doing some wicked powerslides behind me. All was good until I'd misjudge distance and plow him into a stop sign or phone pole and he'd go flying out, skipping down the street. That would usually scrape off some hair and maybe part of his beard and put roadrash on his face.

And those Tonka Trucks, man you could give those hell behind a bike and they'd keep coming back for more.

Some other cool, old school toys:

Big Jim w/karate chop
SSTs
Evil Kneivel motorcycle that you wound up
Sizzlers
Rockem Sockem Robots
Red Ryder BB Gun - oh yeah
etc.

[v8minus2]

yes bb gun by far was the coolest. i got my ass whipped so many times from shooting shit i wasn't suposed to. we stold a power wheels jeep from my neighbor and put a person in it then went balls to the wall with the riding lawnmower. to a point where we had a string overwriting the govener. wall ball should have been in the olympics.
we used to hit golf balls with baseball bats to see who's went the furthest, usually through a window.
firecrackers and smokebombs were the shit with traffic. waterhoses and trampolines.
throwing shit at yellowjacket nest...awsome in it's own way.
swimming in the sulpher spring. or getting your parents to take you to wakulla springs.
rope swing into the st marks river.
god damnit! now life sucks. i never really thought about all the things i miss until now. even though i still do some of that dumb shit. i still have my lawnmower that will bust a 32 mph top speed. i still throw shit at yellow jacket nest. still shoot stuff with my pellet gun. and i still play with firecrackers. damn you Zach!! that was my favorite shirt.

[Octane]

I remember a old store in Day it is gone now but a 10 ounce returnable mountain dew would have ice in it it was on the corner of 53 and 27
Late JL prine Owned that store, and the other one you are talking about is Buckville.. It is exactly halfway between tallahassee and Gainsville.. I miss that old man used to go up there and get ice cream man them good ole days aint here no more..

[slmdLS1]

Late JL prine Owned that store, and the other one you are talking about is Buckville.. It is exactly halfway between tallahassee and Gainsville.. I miss that old man used to go up there and get ice cream man them good ole days aint here no more..

my cousin lived in daytown and my dad is about 20-25 mins east of the buckville store.

[Octane]

my cousin lived in daytown and my dad is about 20-25 mins east of the buckville store.
No way.. I know everone from there tell me who they are.. If you would.

[slmdLS1]

No way.. I know everone from there tell me who they are.. If you would.


he's about 10 years older than me and moved back to "pickett lake". but he's an accountant in mayo.

[v8minus2]

hey there is a guy in my nursing home named jl prine. old talk lankey guy. real annoying voice. dirtiest sailor mouth ever.

[Octane]

hey there is a guy in my nursing home named jl prine. old talk lankey guy. real annoying voice. dirtiest sailor mouth ever.
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