In the good old days.... when I was your age

jennyswan · Post by **jennyswan** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:43 pm

I just had an idea for a thread, inspired by something covenant said in another thread about 'the gold old days'.

What are your happy memories about childhood, the past etc?

Or what did your parents/carers say about When I was your age....

I remember my mom would start with the sentence and she me and my sister would take out our pretend violins and go aaahhh when I was your age.

My sis asked her one day when my mom came out with her sentence When I was your age....

My sis said Oh yeah mom what was it like in the stone age He He

That was the end of that one in our house

The thing I loved the most was when the electricity would go out in bad weather we would all sit around playing charades or telling ghoststories. We used to wish it would never come back on

Ah memories ...

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:47 pm

I asked my mother once if she learned how to read using a horn book...............oh, brother, did I get it from her!

jennyswan · Post by **jennyswan** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:51 pm

Ooooh When I was your age we could go to the pictures, get twenty fags and fish an chips and still have change out a ten bob note

How young do I sound? :-3

Back when I was 17 you could go to the disco with 20.00. You would take the bus in (half fare naturally), then try to convince the bouncer you were over 18. You would pay 5.00 to get in. Buy 1 drink between all your friends and really think you were drunk. Get chips and coke on the way home and pile as many into a cab as possible

jennyswan · Post by **jennyswan** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:25 pm

My mom told me that once while she was bathing me, I asked her why her face didn't fit anymore. What a charming child I must have been.

I told one of my moms bestfriends that she 'had a really fat ass in jeans'

Valerie100 · Post by **Valerie100** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:59 pm

I remember eating a lot of good meals with my family. As kids, we went to nice restaurants and ate steak regularly.

I also remember my mother telling me about her Austrian grandmother, who would serve seven course dinners and desserts. She would just keep bringing the food out and to the table, my father used to say. If you didn't want to eat anymore, she would get offended or think that something was wrong with the food. My great grandmother was a nonstop feeding machine, from what I understand.

A lot of my family memories center around meals.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:13 pm

I liked Sundays best. Id get 2 hrs on a chain tied to the tree out back. Its was 3 am but who cares ? WHOOOO I was FREE !!:D

orangesox1 · Post by **orangesox1** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:20 pm

Nomad wrote: I liked Sundays best. Id get 2 hrs on a chain tied to the tree out back. Its was 3 am but who cares ? WHOOOO I was FREE !!:D

Don't you still enjoy it when Lazer ties you to a tree, thats kinky Nomad;)

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:31 pm

What was it like when I was young? Well I grew up on a working class council estate in Birmingham, England, in the 1970's where we went around on funny bikes called choppers, watched Dr Who on the telly, and fought all the kids who's parents weren't Irish, which seeing as we were actually in Britain was quite a lot. Then I moved to Ireland in the 1980's thats when it really got rough, I had an English accent in an Irish school, that was a recipe for many smacks, so I lost the accent very quickly and learned how to punch straight. But it wasn't always fun, sometimes it was difficult. Though we did live near a river so that was cool, we gots lots of chases off the Farmer, invented many fun and dangerous games such as setting the tyres on our bikes on fire and then cycling them into the river before we burned to death. But after than then I discovered girls, yeah that was good, the clothes were bad though, the 80s and all that. All in all I would say, not bad, and I really must apologize to that young lad I threw out of the tree onto another young lad when I was 14, he seemed to cope well with it I must say.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:51 pm

Block parties. Each end of the street would be blocked off from traffic and all the families would come out and bring dishes of food, music, all of us kids running around playing hide and go seek tag.

The Minnehaha Creek.All the kids on the block had rubber rafts, we would get dropped off at the creek and we would paddle all day long till we got to Minnehaha Falls, we would pack lunches, tip eachother over, swim.

Winter. Skiing, sledding, snowmen, snowball fights. Id play hockey every available second, I couldnt get enough. Still play.

Mini bikes, trips up north, camping, Boy Scouts, cute girls, the older kid next door had dirty magazines.

Most of it was pretty good.