WAY back in the day

[redbenjoe]

I just cringe at the way my girl's daughters have to grow up. They are 8 and 10 and she won't even let them ride their bikes around the block by themselves...and we live in the burbs!! Me and the neighborhood kids used to take day long bike rides to the beach on lake Michigan and all we had to do was yell through the screen door that we were goin for a bike ride! It just saddens me how things will never be that way again.
In the summertime we "checked in" once or twice a day as a courtesy...or so you didn't have to hear your mom yellin for you from the porch. You came home for dinner, then ran back outside wherever to play until the street lights came on. Then you'd check in again, tell your folks where you were gonna be, then came home when you got tired.
The older I get, the more i long for the past. The good old days.

that pretty much sums it up
and i agree --in most USA cities --those free times will never happen again-
it must suk to be 12 years old and walk about town holding hands with their mothers

btw --forget to mention --there was no such place as ' the mall ' back then -
so all shopping and movies, etc had to be ' downtown '

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Some great memories flooding back from reading these stories. Thanks for sharing.

I rode my bike EVERYWHERE as a kid. Like allot of you said, just be home for dinner. mom was happy to have us out of the house!

Street baseball and soccer, hide and seek. Chasing the girls.

No electronic leashes. If we didn't come home on time, it was five across the eyes and you didn't do it again!

My dad conned me good into mowing the lawn. Before I was big enough I thought the lawn mower was an amazing machine, right down on my level. I always asked him "Dad, can I mow the lawn?" and he'd say, "not till your old enough to pull start it." I would try, but couldn't do it.

Then the day came when I did start it. I was so excited! He then said "Its now your job!". It only took a few times mowing to figure out I got duped.

It was before rotary mowers, it was the lengthwise barrel blade style and if you ran over something, you were wearing it. More than once that damn machine splattered dog poop all over me from head to toe. My sister used to think that was the funniest thing ever. I guess I would have thought the same if it happened to her!

 

[redbenjoe]

very funny chris --
lets not forget --there is still plenty of dog poop available today -
see we never had the exclusive on it in the good old days

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

very funny chris --
lets not forget --there is still plenty of dog poop available today -
see we never had the exclusive on it in the good old days

I'm ahead of the game these days, no dog and no lawn to mow!

 

[Ghettoboom767]

Ah the days of hanging out behind the stores across the street from me!!!! Here's one story; There was these fairly big incinerators behind the stores-Rexall Drugs and salon shared one and the Ben Franklin the other.Well I would put half clogged and almost full clogged hair spray cans in the incinerator and quick close the door if you can fast enough and ran! Well a few seconds or minutes later depending on how it was going and Pow! !!!
Boom! Then the dawn thing would rain ashes on all the cars in the parking lot!! (llol) The door was bulged out a bit to!! (Lol) oh how I had fun behind the stores!! Red Owl to!!!

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Ah the days of hanging out behind the stores across the street from me!!!! Here's one story; There was these fairly big incinerators behind the stores-Rexall Drugs and salon shared one and the Ben Franklin the other.Well I would put half clogged and almost full clogged hair spray cans in the incinerator and quick close the door if you can fast enough and ran! Well a few seconds or minutes later depending on how it was going and Pow! !!!
Boom! Then the dawn thing would rain ashes on all the cars in the parking lot!! (llol) The door was bulged out a bit to!! (Lol) oh how I had fun behind the stores!! Red Owl to!!!

The things a kid can find to play with!

 

[oldskool69]

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