What Do You Miss About ...
 

What is up Frat. I love you all but I have noticed that there is no action on this page anymore. So here is a topic for everyone (keep it positive):

What do you miss about being a kid ...

I miss:
1. Block Parties. I remember the first song I heard at a block party was Cassanova by Levert. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

2. Summer Vacation http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/cool.gif

3. trick or treating and of course bag snatching.

4. Midnight basketball

5. Sitting on the porch claiming cars (you remember oh you see that Mercedes "that's my car")

6. The monkey bars

7. Jumping rope

8. Being free to explore your world (hassle free that is until your mother caught you doing something you had no business).


OOOOP-ROOO,

The Negotiator
Delta Sigma Theta
Mu Alpha
3 Spring 00

I am still such a kid at heart but those things that I can no longer do as an adult would be:
1. Running to Grandma for loose change for that ice cream truck. Then eating that screwball till you get to the little ball of gum.
2. Hopscotch
3. Hang-go-seek (Hide-N-Go-Seek)
4. Catching lightening bugs and pulling off their tails.
5. KICK BALL!!!
6. Going to the corner store with 50 cents and coming back with a bag FULL of candy.
7. Sharing one pair of skates with your cousin 'cuz we didn't have two pairs.
8. Hand games (Rock-n-robin, Ms. Mary Mack)
9. Barbie's and all the 'roles' she played!
10. JACKS

Those were the days weren't they?
How could I forget about kick ball and the ice cream truck? You took me back.

I miss

1. chasing the ice cream man

2. Saturday morning cartoons

3. licking Kool-aid and sugar out of your hand (may just be a Southern thing)

4. Peppermints and pickles

5. field trips

6. dodgeball

7. Christmas (it is so different when you are a kid)

8. No job, no bills

Coleman Luv Negotiator, what I miss

1) watching the girls double dutch
2) playing jailbreak
3) Mr. Softee and the Good Humor Man
4) respecting the adults in the neighborhood
5) block parties
6) real musical groups with live music
7) tellin your boys a girl let you "get a grind" on a slow jam
8) don't miss those embarring moments during the slow drag "ow, whats that pokin' me? Ewww, you nasty!!". Leave you standing on the dance floor with a visible woody poking out of your Fila sweatsuit, hahahaha
9) girls braiding hair on the front steps
10) wireball, chink, wallball, half-ball (stickball)
11) Hong Kong Phooey, Grape Ape, Ultra-man, Astro Boy, Johnny Sokko, Tarzan cartoon (bo-mangani) Incredible Hulk (don't make me angry)
12) Schooly D, Lisa Lisa, Doug E. Fresh, Rakim, Special Ed, Rob Base
13) Party where a fight breaks out without gunshots
14) Summer League basketball
15) asking a girl "can you stand a chance" (asking her to be your girl)
16) a Greek affair (Freaknik, Virginia Beach, PhillyGreek) without ghetto-ass GDI's and locals messing it up for the Greeks and college students.

Now I feel old, gotta go watch "Krush Groovin"

What do I miss:

1. Karate Flics on Saturday.
2. Breakdancing and poppin.
3. The Rooftop, Red Parrot, 54, all those wicked clubs in NYC.
4. Rakim w/Eric B., Kane, Divin Sounds, BDP, Uptown MCA and Cold Chillin Records, the real old school hip-hop.
5. block parties.
6. b-ball tournaments
7. chillin w/ shorties on the roof. i'm from the projects...
8. Mr. Softee
9. Coney Island on Easter.
10. Harlem Week.
11. Brooklyn/Queens Day.
12. High School shorties.....

Oh Yeah

1. parachute pants

2. Krush Groove, Beat Street, Breakin, all the old school movies

3. sneaking into the movies

4. Remember those Michael Jackson Thriller jackets

5. passing notes in school

Just a few more

Some more:

1. Leather bombers and sheepskins

2. addidas with the fat laces

3 All flavors of LEES

4. Gold teeth.....

5. Gumbys, Flattops and blowouts..

6. All the Fresh Fest concerts

7. Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches after school.

8. Riding on the top of elevators..once again a project thing.

I forgot all about field trips and the ice cream man. I chased the ice cream man the other day.

I miss:

- roller skating down the sidewalk
- snowball fights
- making your bike from spare parts (we were too poor to buy a new one)
- going to the mall with about 20 or 30 people
- hide-n-go-freak
- walking to and from school with friends
- a conversation with your first boy/girlfriend. You all remember.
What are you doing?
Nuthin. (Silence for like 10 mins)
What do you want to talk about now?

- playing in the street w/o having to worry about drive bys
- cooling off in the summer with the use of the fire hydrant (that water kinda hurt though it had some serious force)

I miss a lot of the above but what I really miss about being a kid is eating as much as I want to (especially holiday dinners) and not worrying about gaining weight!!

Whoa, Dyhard! You really took me back with 3 and 4!! Grape Kool-Aid and sugar... used to irk my mom to see my purple mouth and hands right before Bible Band or YPWW. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif LOL

And were there fights on the school bus on the way BACK to school for y'all? Cuz, after we got our treat, we used to scrap! Well, not ME, per se... err, gotta go. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

Thanks for letting me intrude! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

GOOD TOPIC:


Toys: Six Million Dollar man, GI JOE with the Kung Fu Grip, Action Jackson, Evil Kinevil with the Stunt Moter Cycle (I remember trying to make the cycle jump from one table to another and the damn thing landing in my mother plate while she was eating), Army Men, Hot Wheels

Games: I DE CLEAR WAR, Red Light Green Light, Freeze Tag, Wall Ball, Dodge ball, H O R S E, King ball, Playing Full Court One on One, Playing a Pick up Football Game that would last ALL DAY, Boxiing Matches in My Back Yard (I was the Heavywieght Champion of 52nd and Chester Ave.)

Food: Pickled Pigs Feet, Peach Cobbler, Nown laters (that's NOW and LATERS for the non ghetto folk...lol), Cheese Steaks and Hoagies, Water Ice, Pretzels (DAMN I MISS PHILLY)

Dances: The Prep, The Freak (The Dog) , The Rock, The Bump, The Flintstone, The Smurf, Poppin (Breakin), The Wop.

IT HAS GOT TO BE:

WATCHING CARTOONS
JUMPING DOUBLE DUTCH
PLAYING KISS CATCH(MY FAVORITE) LOL
PLAYING MOTHER MAY I AND RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT.....

SEQUEL #8
SPR '01
SIGAM XI
CCU, MBSC


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crimson and cream
and nine white pearls
there is nothing like
a Delta girl.....

DyhardQ,
I'm feelin' you on the Kool-Aid in tha bag...
1) Passing notes... "will you go with me...Check yes or no"

2) Playing in the Fire Hydrant, & covering the drains in order to make a "street swimming pool"...

3)MC Hammer http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

4)DOUBLE- DUTCH!!!!

5) PINK LEMONADE JOLLY RANCHER STIX http://www.plauder-smilies.de/lach.gif

[This message has been edited by ChaoticRed (edited August 14, 2001).]

What I miss about being a kid....
 

Re: What I miss about being a kid....
 

oh man, u said woody woodpecker. i forgot all about him.

1. wearing pony, diadora and kangaroo sneakers (putting money into the pocket was easy, but getting it out was a bi***)
2. playing hide and go get it
3. field day
4. snow days (i would pray for that siren to go off)
5. gazelles (those real big glasses)
6. guys wearing shags or gumbies
7. going to proms
8. penny candy
9. sitting for 4 hours and getting your own hair braided and having your mother warn, "those braids better last 3 weeks"
10. cable tv w/the "remote control" that looked like a little keyboard
11. before remote controls, being the only kid around and your only job was to change the tv channels or adjust the hanger

aaahhh the good old days. to think, when i was younger, i couldn't wait to get older. if i knew then, 25% of what i know now...

Re: What I miss about being a kid....
 

I thought I was the only person who thought that.


This is what I miss:

Penny Candy

Play 'Cooking'....Ladies, I made some mean grass "greens"

Dodge Ball

Old School L.L.Cool J, not that lip licking fanatic that he is today (Im talking about I'm Bad, Jack the Ripper)

Down Down Baby, Twil lil Lee (I have no idea how to spell it)
Uno Dosey Ana, Slide (both versions),Little Sally Walker

Chinese Jump Rope (Jump in Jump out Jump Side to Side)

Your first crush.....It was in the second grade....i thought this kid looked like L.L. Cool J, :)

Rappers beefing on wax, not the street

Riding my bike (Pink & Purple 10 speed Huffy)

Red Light Green Light

NO RESPONSIBILITY!!!

Being poor and HAPPY!

My barbie doll collection....(They were all black, too! Even Ken)

When Michael Jackson looked like me! (Brown skin, wide nose)

Drill Team in Elementary School...wait....heeeey...we were stepping in elementary school! Whodathunkit!


That's all I remember, now.

Coleman Luv!! :)

1 Sat morning cartoons, the good ones not the mess they show know( oops did i just admit that i still watch cartoons) :D

2 digging in the cereal box just to get the prize

3 no rent, no electric bill, no car payment, no baby momma drama, no almost 500 dollar amonth child support( but i luv my spoiled little man)

4 open fire hydrants in the summer ( city peeps fell me on this)

5 getting up in the middle of the night and crawling in bed with yo moms and pops

6 block parties

7 Snow Real snow( i'm from Brooklyn but i'm in the dirty south now baby)

8 jumping the turn stiles on the subway

9 sneakking onto the back of the bus

10 going to the 12:oo movie and then sneaking in to see the rest of them all day

11 going to Kings Plaza ( holla if u from Brooklyn)

12 knowing tha no matter what the problem, moms can make it better









we will band together and survive or live apart and die as fools
-----Susan Taylor

Re: Re: What I miss about being a kid....
 

Hey Soror, I'm feeling all of those. I first loved to really appreciate the beauty of an adolescent Black female by watching the girls on my block double-dutch. Very cultural and very sexy. MJ was my boy when his nose looked like mine, I don't know who this white dude is.

I feeling all of these too. Reminds me of Philly, except I didn't jump any turnstiles, Pops would have killed me if I got caught.

Block parties were the bomb until knuckleheads started throwing M-80s and make people think it was gunshots. Whole crowd would start running and break up the party.

Ya'll got me up here thinking that I'M old. hahahaha.

# 1. Teddy Riley and them...
# 2. Whoopins instead of time out.
# 3. Hand-me-downs from older family members or other folks from the neighborhood.
# 4. 8-Tracks, Ataries and Gameboys.
# 5. Teddy Ruxpin (I know some of the older folks bought them and used him as a tape player).
# 6. When Oprah was in movies (I'm talking BEFORE Beloved).
# 7. When freestyling was actually "FREESTYLING."
# 8. Seeing fresh grafiti on the wall.
# 9. Having to travel with Army and PowerPlant brats.
#10. Amen, 227, The Cosby Show and A Different World (for those semi oldheads out there).


112-OneOneTwo

REMINISCE
 

TV SHOWS I miss the hell out of
Diff'rent Strokes
Facts of Life with Mrs. Garrett
Gimme A Break
Silver Spoons
Alf
The A-Team
Falcon Crest
Family Ties
You Can't Do That on Television


CARTOONS
Woody Woodpecker
Tom And Jerry
Droopy the Dog
Fat ALBERT
Smurfs

GAMES
HIDE and Go Seek
Freeze Tag
Mother May I
HOUSE ;)
FOOTBALL
Duck Duck Goose
Twil lil lee (soror snoopy -- me no spell either)
All the little hand games

TOYS
SIMON
EASY BAKE OVEN
Strawberry Shortcake came
LITE BRIGHT
my barbies

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hahaha i was one of those knuckleheads until the year my moms caught me. i just slid one down the street and i hear my boys say oh shit real softly, i lok over my shoulder and there is my mom standing with her sfs and she has that look on her face, she tilts her haed and says "boy come in side and let me talk to u"
well most of the conversation went like this --"ok moms , ok i ain't gonna do it no more , i promise please moms I ain't lyin, no moms i don't think u stupid, i'm sorry please moms please.:) :)
well that the last time i was that type of knucklehead



And my Pops would have killed me too if he found out especially since he was a police officer,





jIHAD
what kind of future can one have, if one doesn't know his past
know thyself

I miss:
The lack of bills, especially student loans.
Being able to eat McDonalds and not worry about it breaking me out.
Double dutch, I was a BEAST!!!
Playing in general.
Bumpers (for those in DC/MD)
The GOOD cartoons, I ont know what is up with this stuff they got for the babies now.
This could go on and on but I will make this the last one:
Being able to hop up in my Mommy's lap. This would not work now as I am about 5'9 and she is 5'2:D

Things I miss

*penny candy
*walking around barefoot in the country
*the innocence that comes with childhood
*the little country church my family used to attend
*my mother fixing my cream of wheat in the mornings

:) Not paying bills

School House Rock

Kick Ball, Red light Green light, Kick the Can, Hide and Go Seek, Simon Says, Mother May I :)

My Parents Friday Night Fish Fry's, Block Parties

Music: Eric B. Rakim, Run DMC, UTFO, Furious Five, Mc Lyte,
Whoduni, Sugarhill Gang, Big Daddy Kane, Kwame...LOL

Going to a concert and not having to worry about somebody starting a fight .....I miss the artist from this concert...Can anyone feel me? (1985 Fresh Fest) presented by sprite!~

i miss books like the "bearenstein bears," "encycolpedia brown," and "sweet valley twins." what is this harry potter mess that teeters the fine line between fiction and sacrilege?

i miss gold stars and smiley faces on my schoolwork.

i miss jump-rope. man, me and one of my homegirls, if we couldn't find anybody else to play with, would tie the rope to the school zone sign outside my house and jump.

i miss my older sister "pumping" me on her bike. i never rode on the handles, but i still used to beg her all the time to let me ride.

i miss picture day at school because i got to wear my good dress. but, it always seemed like they took my picture after recess, so my head always looked crazy.

i miss cereal with NO NUTRITIONAL VALUE--sugar smacks, cookie crisps, aww hell, just give me a bowl of sugar and a spoon.

i miss my new edition candy girl record. i got older and tried to "scratch" and tore that dang thang up.

i miss riding on the arm rest of my daddy's 1983 navy blue Buick Regal.

and ya'll, this girl in class took me baaaack. she came to class eating a pickle with a peppermint inside. this "other" girl, was like, "why is your pickle juice red," and dang-near died when she told her a piece of candy was in it!! our professor made her throw it away though.