Reminiscing About The Good Ol Days

Man, remember the good ol' days? The days of no responsibility. Those days when Summer came, you actually didn't have to worry about anything. Remember Saturday mornings? I mean the REAL Saturday mornings, back when Doug, Pepper Ann, Tom & Jerry, and Looney Tunes still came on t.v. and you'd wake up at like 8 a.m. and get that BIG ASS bowl of cereal you know that mixing bowl that your grandma used to mix cakes and stuff and sit in the living room and watch cartoons for like 3 hours. Somebody would always be like who ate all the cereal? Whatever happened to Looney Tunes anyway? It's been years since I seen a bugs bunny cartoon. What is this crap they show on t.v. now? Ben 10?! What the hell?! Only cartoon I like that's for the kids now are spongebob squarepants and fairly oddparents... but they ain't got nothin on some Looney Tunes!
Back then kids used to love to go outside and play. Kids today are too consumed with the internet and myspace to even step outside. My 12 year old cousin knows how to change the layout of her myspace page, but she don't know how to play freeze tag. Are you serious?!? Freeze tag and hide and go seek (or if you had enough girls, hide and go get it, lol) were the shit! How can you not appreciate the luxury of going outside when you're like 9-14? Being in the house all Summer damn near killed us and it didn't even matter how hot it was. We'd either spray each other with the water hose, sit on the front porch where there's shade and look at the cars drive by picking out which one was ours, or ride our bikes around the block.
Remember the freeze cups? Put some koolaid in a styrofoam cup and freeze it. When you ate it you always ate the whole middle part first and you had a big ass hole in the middle of the freeze cup.
Remember the parties the adults used to have? The ones where the lil kids couldn't come into the living room where the adults were, but it was okay because we were having our own party anyway! And we always thought our music was better than the adult's music.
Remember Saturday Night "Snick" on Nickolodeon? The big orange couch and it had Keenan and Kel, All That, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? on it. Are you afraid of the dark was the scariest shit in the world too. Remember the one about the clown in the funhouse where the kid stole his nose and the clown stalked him? That's why clowns are evil!!

Then came Sunday morning where you had to go to church and your grandma gave you 50 cents to put into the offering, but you always thought about keeping the money so you could get yourself some gum from the grocery store later on... Remember why you could never figure out why Sundays were so boring? It was like Saturday was the livest day, everything was on t.v., but Sunday nothing was on but sports... and you didn't really like sports back then so you just popped in one of your Disney movies like Aladdin or Pinocchio even though you had seen them 100 times.

Boy those were the good ol' days, back when Summer school was something you didn't have to do if you did good in your classes all year round. Back when you just got the mail and never had anything in there except those highlights magazines and you thought you were the shit every month when it came in the mail.

Now look at us... we wanted to get older so much, now here we are, in our 20s or 30s, looking back wishing we could sleep in on a Saturday morning and eat that big bowl of cereal, but we have work, bills, kids of our own who eat all the damn cereal before we can get any! Nowadays kids want ipods and cell phones for christmas, whatever happened to action figures?

Kids today can download an entire album before it comes out for free! Back in the day we NEVER got the whole rapper/singer's album. We had to tape the songs off the radio and hoped that the dj wouldn't cut the song off before our favorite part which was always at the end of the song. (Example: The song "My love is the Shhhh!" had my favorite part at the end, when it said "Don't stop, get it get it! Don't Stop" Don't act like yall don't remember that song).

Man...those were the days! Make sure you let your kids know how lucky they are wen you have them or if you have some already... let them know! Our parents tried to tell us not to act so grown that we'd miss being kids when we got older...but we didn't listen, lol. Remember the times!