Remember when...

This is the game I play with D all the time but now I guess I am going to play it with you.

Do you remember when phone calls were just a dime?

I do. We didn't have a phone or a car  when I was a child so we would walk to the pay phone at the end of the road. When we got there Gramma would give me a dime to go buy candy and then she would call my grandmother to come get her and take her to the grocery store. I would go in to the store to get candy, where the man in there knew me by my name and would always give me an extra piece of candy. That was also the same store my best friend, at the time, her brother got shot outside of that store by a gang because he was wearing the wrong color.

Do you remember when you didn't have to worry about locking your door?

Yep. We would come to TN in the summer and no one ever locked their doors here. I was fascinated at how nice everyone was her compared to where we lived in Connecticut.

Do you remember when it was abnormal to see a teenager with a baby?

When I was young, if you had a baby early and you were not married it was a big family secret. My mom didn't raise me because of that secret. Who would have thought in a small 15 years it would be one of the most common sites in any town?

Do you remember when "good music" was something you could still understand the words to?

My mom used to dance in the living room with my dad to all of this 80's music, and though a lot of it was rock, there was no guessing at what the words are. Now that I am older I thing our brains work faster now, because I get rap music but my mom has no idea!

Do you remember when gas was less than a dollar?

When my son was born gas was 87 cents a gallon. In seven years it has went up here by $1.55. That is a lot. And it will go up a total of  38 cents this month alone......hmmmm.

Do you remember when Michael Jackson was still black, before he didn't "didn't have any plastic surgery?"

Yeah, and boy I idolized him. when I was young and I mena like 4,5,6 young, I thought he was the coolest little guy. Now look at him...molesting kids....uh uh uh.

Do you remember when Smurf was the cartoon?

Just so ya know it still comes on Wenesday mornings on Fox. I use to love that cartoon but now that I watch it, I won't let me kids see it. I mean watch it sometime and see how much more vulgar it is, or well how much more vulgar you know it is than you did at 7 years old.

Do you remember when people said hi, or waved as they went by?

Nope but I lived in the North. People didn't do that. Now they still do here but I don't believe they ever did where I grew up.

Do you remember when Tupac got killed?

YES....and it was so sad. I was just heart broken for weeks! I mean it was so sad and I was pregnant and sitting in a class room when my sis and our best friend came into the room and told me....so what did we do? We left school and went to her boyfriend's house where thye smoked pot until I thought they were going to die and listened to every 2pac CD we owned.

Do you remember when your grandparents would tell you the stories of their lives?

Gramma gave me the picking cotton stories and the walking in hte snow sotries. That is the one thing I miss now that she is gone. I think she was trying to tell me some thing, but I missed it.

Do you remember when you first realized when you weren't going to live forever?

I was six, but I was more tore up wit hthe fact that if I was going to die than so was Gramma. I mean that was also the first time I realized she was "old" (she was 87) and she was going to die sooner than I had previously realized. I was tore up for a good week then Gramma said "Not until it is time" and that was the end of that.

Do you remember when everything seemed so new and that the world was perfect?

When I was young I thought that everything was good. I never realized people were hungry and that there were people who lived in boxes and that people killed their babies. I just thought it was all great and would always be that way.

Do you remember when the only people that had computers were the ones that we rich?

Yep. I didn't think people would every just have computers in their homes. I thought it would always be that people would have to be rich and important and now it is like almost everyone has one.

Do you remember when you had the first away from your parents experience?

I was 12 before I ever left Gramma. I went to a group home. That is where I lived until I got pregnant with my son and moved out on my own. Up until that group home, Gramma needed me, but once she was gone I rebelled like crazy. I mean rna around like crazy. Up until that point I was a good girl!

8:28 AM - 4/12/2005 - post comment