When I Was a Kid....

[Ellafun]

WIWAK, we were expected to respect adults, clean up after ourselves, and face the consequences if we broke the rules.

Time out did not exist.

Parents actually parented instead of trying to be the kids' "friend".

And yes, we got our mouths washed out with soap if we said, "Oh, Fuuuuddddggggeee!", papadoc!

 

[Zoe_A_2222]

WIWAK people knew who Sinitta was, not Simon Cowell

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK, we were expected to respect adults, clean up after ourselves, and face the consequences if we broke the rules.

Time out did not exist.

Parents actually parented instead of trying to be the kids' "friend".

And yes, we got our mouths washed out with soap if we said, "Oh, Fuuuuddddggggeee!", papadoc!

Lol...it is funny because Ralphie's father and my own had a very similar way with words...

WIWAK it was novel that we had MTV...

 

[Earl]

WIWAK tv was black and white and only had 5 channels.

 

[NorthernPA4U]

WIWAK Elvis was alive ... and thin.

WIWAK we actually learned to use a slide rule.

WIWAK I was allowed to walk home after dark by myself, even though I was just a kid.

WIWAK you had to drive to a nearby town to get to McDonalds, because they didn't exist on every block, and if you asked for Star bucks people might have looked at you strangely, then broke out the Monopoly board.

WIWAK parents on television slept in separate beds.

WIWAK cigarettes were cheap and omnipresent.

WIWAK the PTA never brought up for consideration the cost of metal detectors at all the entrances to any school, and especially not elementary school.

 

[Triskele]

Love your thread, Ella!

WIWAK
Spam came in a tin
No-one had a credit card
You saved before you spent or used lay-by
Our black&white TV had a faulty tube and all the neighbourhood kids wanted to watch the news at our house coz the presenters looked like bumpy headed aliens.
We built cubbies with anything we could get our hands on
The soles of our feet were tough as leather
I could catch a spider, hold a snake and fire a rifle without going eek!
Any grassy slope was fair game if you had a big piece of cardboard to slide down it with
We fought over who licked to spoon, who got the mixing bowl and who got the last lamb shank off the roast.
We chewed sugarcane, ate bananas, mangoes, macadamias and veges out of the gardens
We made our own lead sinkers for fishing
We had a funny yellow plastic hand to shove out the car window if we turned left, (different side to you guys ) coz the blinker died.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython#p/u/56/13JK5kChbRw

 

[Zoe_A_2222]

WIWAK George Best was my football hero

 

[Ellafun]

Love your thread, Ella!

http://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython#p/u/56/13JK5kChbRw

OMG, Triskele, I had forgotten about this sketch! Effing hilarious - thank you!!

Thank you Zoe and Earl and NPA4U and the Kiddo-Pig and all the other friends who have been stopping by with gems from the past! And Zoe...my mother had the biggest crush on Joe Namath...all the way up to the pantyhose commercial!!!!

 

[Ellafun]

Lol...it is funny because Ralphie's father and my own had a very similar way with words...

WIWAK it was novel that we had MTV...

"He used profanity the way an artist uses oils" !! Yeah, *cough* I do that *cough* (No wonder my kids curse, right??)

WIWAK, we called MTV the AM radio station and our imagination.

 

[BradBigBrain]

WIWAK no-one talked to us about sex. We learned from the kid down the street whose parents were the only ones in the 'hood who talked about them. He was the cool kid.

Only one girl sprouted breasts early and we'll remember her name the rest of our lives.

Oral sex was taboo. Nobody did anal. Or if they did, they didn't talk about it.

 

[o_so_wet]

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WIWAK my parents would bring a variety of animals to the house so that we could watch them grow. Usually fowl. We had a chicken who used to run after me and peck at my ankles whenever I stepped in the backyard . She hated me

WIWAK we (sis and I) had two hamsters whom we named Hansel and Gretchal. We named them well...they had baby hamsters. Before we got the chance to separate them, Gretchal bit the head off one of the babies while I watched. She just held it up like a subway sandwich and chomped off the head ! (it wasn't as gross as it sounds...they looked like little peach colored plastic toys)

 

[BradBigBrain]

WIWAK people knew who Sinitta was, not Simon Cowell

I still don't know who Sinitta is.

Well, last year I asked for a Sybian with a remote control....

Was Santa good to you?

 

[NorthernPA4U]

WIWAK the phones that you carried around and were not plugged into the wall were made of red plastic and were marketed to girls under 10.

WIWAK we had a weekly bank account through the school in which we saved (or tried) to save a nickel or a dime a week.

WIWAK the ultimate punishment at school was "the strap" in the principal's office.

WIWAK 3-D movies were a thing of the fairly recent past.

WIWAK Dick Clark still looked young. (OK, that probably applies to everyone here, no matter what the age.)

WIWAK the bad dog in the neighborhood was sent to the grandparents' farm instead of being put down.

WIWAK the one girl in school who got pregnant, and her family, were looked at differently by a lot of the adults in town.

WIWAK my older cousin was dancing the mashed potato and the monkey ... and probably a bunch of dances I don't remember.

WIWAK there were drive-in movie locations in nearly every town.

WIWAK there were drive-in restaurants and A&W Root Beer stands all over.

WIWAK our little league was considered VERY advanced when they installed an ELECTRONIC scoreboard. (Of course, every town had an organization associated with Little League, instead of the competing organizations which have since blossomed.)

WIW in college, we submitted our programs to the mainframe on punch cards. But that was better than high school, which had no computers until after I graduated.

 

[NorthernPA4U]

WIWAK people knew who Sinitta was, not Simon Cowell

I still don't know who Sinitta is.

http://www.megachwiep.com/PaulHardcastle/Sinitta/SinittaLP100.jpg

 

[papadoc19]

"He used profanity the way an artist uses oils" !! Yeah, *cough* I do that *cough* (No wonder my kids curse, right??)

WIWAK, we called MTV the AM radio station and our imagination.

You with a dirty mouth? I am shocked...

WIWAK Halloween was more for kids than adults...

 

[lakesailer_mi]

WIWAK we all would group together and walk around with pillow cases collecting all kinds of cool treats and my parents didn't have to worry about it, we just ate it all.

WIWAK no one when to church for halloween.

 

[curiousirish]

WIWAK trick or treating didn't exist in the UK....

 

[Zoe_A_2222]

I still don't know who Sinitta is.

Count yourself lucky then. Her songs are the ones you don’t want to remember



Thanks for the pic NorthernPA4U, I remember that album cover.

And Zoe...my mother had the biggest crush on Joe Namath...all the way up to the pantyhose commercial!!!!

You're welcome Ella, thank you for the great thread.

I just checked Joe Namath out, he was rockin the 70's look.

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK I never questioned why Goofy could talk but Pluto never did...I mean they are both dogs...

 

[Fmature2play]

WIWAK.....I didn't think I'd ever NOT be a kid. Now I kinda wish I was again sometimes.

 

[Chaingun]

WIWAK.....I didn't think I'd ever NOT be a kid. Now I kinda wish I was again sometimes.

I wish I was a kid all the time. Well, maybe an eighteen year old kid.

 

[StilettosNSpurs]

WIWAK we played OUTSIDE, came home when the street lights came on and if she whistled, we better come a runnin!

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK I recall getting fruit as a christmas gift...a Nintendo and an orange...

 

[OzoneRed]

WIWaK coffee came in a metal can with a metal lid. There was a little tool attached to the lid, that you used to tear off a strip of metal to open the can.

WIWaK you made coffee in a percolator coffee pot, on the stove. You had to adjust the heat so that the coffee would perc without boiling.

WIWaK we never heard of espresso, or cappucino, or mocha, or latte. There was just coffee.

 

[MyShadowSelf]

WIWaK you went outside and played after dark.
WIWaK you walked home from school and didn't have to worry about someone taking you.
WIWaK Atari's were the stuff.