Flashback Friday...

I received this as an email and thought that I would share it with the masses... Check out the site U Thrill Me for more things to reflect on.

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 & dodgeball 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
• Totting your friends on your handlebars
• Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
• Class Field Trips
• Remember 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 driveby shootings, 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!"
• There's nothing like the good old days! They were good then, and they're good now when we think about them.
• 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.