I’m not just trying to milk this… honest… probably.
I’m curious which ones of the “100 things our kids will never experience” from the previous post hit you in the heart.
It’s interesting to me which ones caught me off guard. Most of the ones that hit me hard had to do with what I’ll call “simple pleasures.” Drinking from a garden hose, playing “Kick the can” after dinner with all the kids in the neighborhood, playing for hours with matchbox cars on imaginary roads in a dirt patch next to my house.
Others that hit me were things like “pay phones” and “album artwork” and one I didn’t even add to the list: a banana seat and a sissy bar on my Schwinn Stingray. I felt like Easy Rider on that thing. And in reality I was the least cool kid in the neighborhood. But that bike made me feel impossibly cool.
I’m just curious which of the 100 hit you over the head.
Tell all… MR
A lot of these “hit me over the head” but one in particular was “playing house with dirt for a floor and trees for a roof”. I stayed at my cousin’s house all the time, every summer and we went into the woods, mapped out our house and spent hours “sweeping” the floors and acting like this was our mansion. We had a blast but everytime we went into eat, etc and came back out, the rooms were all messed up. No wind storms but we didn’t know what happened so we “cleaned up”over and over again. Years later, in high school, I found out that a girl watched us from across the pasture from her window. She was so shy and she hated knowing we were having so much fun so when we went inside, she would run across the pasture and destroy our “house”. She became my best friend in H/S and then told me the story….we’ve been friends ever since!!
This one hit me over the head. “Getting punished by your friends parents if you step out of line.” I seldom see parents punish their own kids and a lawsuit would surely be filed if they punished another person’s child. It seems we have digressed from making kids behave. But maybe it is the places I am in and not society as a whole. I am not a parent, only an observer in public places. I am sure MANY parents will insist I am wrong, but I am only stating what I see with my own eyes. When I do see someone with well mannered and well behaved children I try to ALWAYS tell the parents how proud they should be of the kids.
My favroite was every spring when thd snow drifts would melt my brother and me would walk about ten miles of country road scouring the ditches for returnable pop bottles. mostly two or tree cents. Sometimes a big one worth a whole dime.Oh the good old days.
Catching lightening bugs at dusk. What a simple and entertaining time of life. No mortgage, no bills, no worries.