What Do You Miss About ...

[The Negotiator]

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.

2. Summer Vacation

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

[jazbri]

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

[The Negotiator]

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

[dyhardque]

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

[DoggyStyle82]

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"

[latinkingsp00]

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.....

[dyhardque]

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

[latinkingsp00]

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.

[The Negotiator]

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)

[BlueReign]

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!!

[Salience]

Originally posted by dyhardque:
I miss

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

4. Peppermints and pickles

5. field trips

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. 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.

Thanks for letting me intrude!

[SHU QUE]

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.

[sequel_1913]

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.....

[ChaoticRed]

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

4)DOUBLE- DUTCH!!!!

5) PINK LEMONADE JOLLY RANCHER STIX

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

[lil_sunshine]

What I miss about being a kid are:
1. REAL Saturday morning cartoons (Woody Woodpecker and Looney Tunes)
2. Thundercats
3. Field trips
4. Jumping double dutch (I'm kinda rusty, but I think I still have some skills left)
5. Summer camp
6. Being really excited on Christmas morning
7. Wishing I was a grown up already
8. Lunchroom food fights
9. The mean looking lunch lady with the shower cap on her head
10. The snotty nose kid that the whole school would laugh at (although when he grew up, he looked maaaaddd goooodd! )
11. Listening to oldies that your parents looooved, and that you hated , on the radio
12. Hearing Ahmad sing the song, "Back in the Days" and remembering everything he talked about
13. Class pictures (just to see what everybody was doing when it was taken )

That's all I can think of for now. I'll post more if I think of anything.