Essay About Play Station And Endless Summer Days

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Close your eyes and go back..
.Before the Internet or PC or the MAC……
….Before semi-automatics and crack….
….Before Play station, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari…
….Before cell phones, CDs, DVDs, voicemail and e-mail….
….way back….
Im talkin bout hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light
Red Rover….Red Rover…..
Playing kickball & dodge ball until the first…no…second…no…third streetlight came on
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot potato
Hop Scotch
Jump rope
Kick the can
Duck….duck….GOOSE!!!
YOURE IT!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home –
no pagers or cell phones
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets
Running through the sprinkler
Happy Meals
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom
Cracker jacks with the same thing
Popsicles with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend
…but wait…..theres more….
Watchin Saturday Morning cartoons (you had 3 channels to choose from)
Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock….
Going even farther back…. Roy Rogers, Wild Bill Hicock, Sky King, Hopalong Cassidy….
…The Adventures of Superman, Bonanza (in color), Ozzie and Harriet
Watchin Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges) Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos,
FONZIE…..AYYYYYYYY
Playing Dukes of Hazard
Catchin lightning bugs in a jar
Christmas morning
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting an Ice Cream off the Good Humor Truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin down the steps
Jumpin on the bed
Pillow fights
Sleep overs
A 13″ black and white TV in your room meant you were RICH
Runnin till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING
WORK: meant taking out the garbage or doing the dishes
Your first crush
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN)
Rainy days at school meant playing “Heads up 7UP” or “hangman” in the classroom, Remember that?
Oh, Im not finished yet….
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
So was a swig from the hose
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars
Playing Wiffle Ball in the