When I Was a Kid....

[Midnight_Man]

WIWAK shopping malls, Walmart, and Burger King didn't exist.

 

[Kat73]

WIWAK, before age 12, we would go to the Rose Parade and sit on a board supported by two ladders to watch every year.

WIWAK after age 12 we decorated Rose Parade floats the week between Christmas and New Years.

WIWAK, after age 13, we would walk with our decorated float down the street until it turned on Colorado Blvd and then go home and get the first sleep we'd had in 48 hours!

 

[mwmnpa]

WIWAK, there was no such thing as wind chill. Now, that makes it feels way colder.

 

[Vivienne999]

WIWAK..We were never in the house during the day. Always out running and playing with everyone else.

 

[lakesailer_mi]

WIWAK..We were never in the house during the day. Always out running and playing with everyone else.

A-men!

WIWAK there wasn't an automated phone system to notify us of school closings. We had a phone tree and it was announced on the radio. No one ever accidentally went to school on a snow day.

 

[BradBigBrain]

WIWAK movies didn't come out in cycles:

1. Shitty movies in the early part of the year.
2. Big action/blockbusters in the summer
3. Comedies in the summer
4. Dramatic/Oscar potentials in latter part of the year

 

[gijoe_96]

WIWAK the only violence in shool was when the teacher smacked our hands with the ruler

 

[Kat73]

WIWAK I could belch louder than most of my brothers friends...(still can)

 

[goodgurlgetsbad]

WIWAK I thought girls get preggy thru oral sex too

 

[TheAnimalWithin]

WIWAK when an adult, ANY adult, told you to cut the shit you byGod cut the shit IMMEDIATELY

 

[SLOgent]

WIWAK the best shortstop in town was a girl and she always got chosen first or second

 

[Rhino7]

WIWAK Dukes of Hazzard was darn good TV !!

 

[Rhino7]

WIWAK Mom would hit the car horn to call us kids in from the woods where we had been playing all day without one electronic device, but rather sticks and our imagination.

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK I had an eight o'clock bedtime...

 

[Vivienne999]

WIWAK the old man down the street would chase us if he saw us on his grass. We would laugh at him as we ran away. (good times)

 

[Ellafun]

So happy to see that this thread is still getting posts even though I'm absent so often! Happy New Year to everyone, and thanks for all your input !

WIWAK, when you said "single", people understood that it was one song off of an album.

Everyone knew what LP and 45 meant.

A photoshop was somewhere you took your film to get developed.
Unless you had one of those new fancy schmancy Polaroids. (the camera that changed my life...boo-yah!)

 

[juicyfruits]

WIWAK if you went out to play your parents knew you were safe and would come home when either you were hungry or it was dusk

 

[BigDaddy71231863]

WIWAK "social networking" meant sitting around with your friends, usually around a camp fire and not infrequently with beer snuck out of a parent's fridge, talking, laughing, and living life.

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK I wanted to be one of the Huxatable kids...

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK I had Huddles sheets...

 

[mwmnpa]

WIWAK, I didn't think girls farted or burped up til I was in 8th grade.

 

[Holdingaturn]

WIWAK porn was not nearly as accessible and plentiful as it is today. The woman's bra and underwear section in the JC Penney circular often times "got me through the storm. "

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK porn was not nearly as accessible and plentiful as it is today. The woman's bra and underwear section in the JC Penney circular often times "got me through the storm. "

Aahhh...the memories...

 

[lacandy]

WIWAK Saturday mornings were spent with Jabber Jaw, Scooby Doo, and Hong Kong Phooey...

 

[papadoc19]

When I was a kid parents were less into little league...