Remember When...

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 09:46 AM

If only we could go back......!!!! Remember when...? Close your eyes
and
go back in time....

Before the Internet or the Apple Mac.

Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....

Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...

Way back........

I'm talking about Hide and Seek.

The corner shop.

Hopscotch.

Elastics.

Skipping.

Handstands.

Football with an old can.

Fingerbobs.

Beano, Twinkle.

Roly Poly.

Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.

The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.

Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune

Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a
screwball

Wait......

Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials, The Double
Deckers,
Road Runner, He-Man, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and Why Don't You - or staying
up
for Star Trek.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like
going
somewhere.

Earwigs, wasps and bee stings.

Sticky fingers.

Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.

Climbing trees.

Stinging nettles and dock leaves.

Building igloos out of snow banks.

Walking to school, no matter what the weather.

Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach
hurt.

Jumping on the bed.

Pillow fights.

Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.

Being tired from playing....remember that?!

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon

Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

Choppers and Grifters

I'm not finished just yet.....

Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops.

Remember when...

There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash
-
and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.

You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.

It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.

You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.

When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.

When 25p was decent pocket money

When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.

It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.

When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real
restaurant with your parents.

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 being sent to the head'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 drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. Our
parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! - And some of us are
still afraid of them!!

Didn't that feel good?

Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

Remember when....

Decisions were made by going " Ip Dip Dog Ship ." (yeah I know)

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly".

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.

And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.

It was unbelievable that British Bulldog wasn't an Olympic event.

Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than Mum.

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.

Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.

Ice cream was considered a basic food group

Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.

**Bonker Gudd** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 09:59 AM

Hey, nice Post

I still have my Chopper

it's in good condition as well, I wonder how much it's worth?

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:03 AM

Choppers were ace, remeber trying to do a wheely on one.

Quite a feat trying not to impale yourself on the handle bars if it went pear shaped.

**Gaffer** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:11 AM

You chopper kids were all the same, a bit posh with new sandals every school term.

LONG LIVE THE GRIFTER....

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:15 AM

I was too small for a Grifter and when I reached the size to handle one BMX'x came out.

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:16 AM

Gaffer you also forgot the white socks that were a must with sandles.

**Mark Sreeves** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:16 AM

Originally posted by Gaffer

LONG LIVE THE GRIFTER....

[sour grapes]GRIFTERs were for wimps![/sour grapes]

We had normal bikes with the widest cow-horn handlebars possible

(Couldn't afford a Grifter

)

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:19 AM

Why did people have cow horns, you couldn't do anything on them except scrap ur knuckles trying to fit down a ginel

**Mark Sreeves** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:21 AM

What's a ginel?

**Bonker Gudd** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:22 AM

Good Lord, I wouldn't be seen dead on a Grifter!

I feel a poll coming on

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:24 AM

Probably spelt it wrong but a simply put a small alley type footpath that joined streets on estates.

We used to see had fast you could ride throught one without maiming yourself

**Mark Sreeves** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:24 AM

Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
Good Lord, I wouldn't be seen dead on a Grifter!

Nor would I NOW!!!

**SurfDemon** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:26 AM

Ha! The only true test of man hood was if you could change gear on the chopper without swerving into the path of an oncoming car. My brother had a special 5-speed high backed chopper. It was pretty damn cool. As for my own chopper, well thats pretty big too.... oh, look gutter thread...

SD

**Mark Sreeves** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:31 AM

Originally posted by Gary.Lowe
Probably spelt it wrong but a simply put a small alley type footpath that joined streets on estates.

Ah! I know what you mean now!

They are marked with this special sign

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:31 AM

I never actually thought that people in other countries had Choppers always thought it was a UK thing, and at that age other countries never existed. Going into Manchester at Aged 8 was like going on an Amazonian trek

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:33 AM

Yeah Mark they're the ones. The post for them sign were always the last obstacle to overcome and could be the most devastating.

**Gaffer** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:34 AM

Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
Good Lord, I wouldn't be seen dead on a Grifter!

I feel a poll coming on

You're probably to puny to get on one in the first place, pansyboy...

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

**Gaffer** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:35 AM

Originally posted by Mark Sreeves
We had normal bikes with the widest cow-horn handlebars possible

I think they're called cows, Mark

**Mark Sreeves** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:41 AM

Originally posted by Gary.Lowe
I never actually thought that people in other countries had Choppers

Scotland's not THAT far away!

SurfDemon's a jock!

**Gaffer** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:45 AM

Had them in Northern Ireland too...

...with Uzis on the side...

**Bonker Gudd** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:47 AM

You do sound sooo hard...

you teacher's pet

**SurfDemon** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:47 AM

Yip, I've infiltrated Canada so that we can steal their recipie for seal-pie.

It's funny, but they use the term Jock over here to identify sporty people. I was therefore rather confused when the news reporter on the Columbine Shootings said "the two gunmen seemed to be singling out Jocks to be shot", and I'm thinking, bloody hell, what did we ever to them, and how come there are so many scots in the school?

SD

**Gaffer** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 10:58 AM

Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
You do sound sooo hard...

In fact, I don'e think you had a Chopper, I think you had the little version, the Tomahawk.

When you were 20...

you teacher's pet

**Gary.Lowe** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 11:08 AM

Hmmm..

How stupid do I feel?

**parksie** · Jul 23rd, 2001, 11:16 AM

Not as stupid as you look

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