You kids have it made!

[dezfan]

the last three made me grow up real fast.

In 1988 I watched my Uncle go from a 250 pound muscle bound electrician who loved life and lived his life w/ a very happy, energetic, and positive outlook, to a literal shell of the man I knew. From the day we found out to the day he passed was a very short time(although it seems like forever then). He weighed 114 pound and he was carried out of his house in the arms of my cousin. Seeing what cancer did to him makes me want to forget it! I'll never forget my Uncle Joker, but I prefer not to think about those six months of my life!

 

[Double J]

yep yep
same with my mom. the last thing she said was "I want my mom"
that tore my grandma up. (still alive at 80+)...
but I was older like two years ago and her birthday is tomorrow 4/14.. Snit why did I have to read this thread again.. You guys made me sad...and almost cry

on a positive.. the first transformers. the metal ones.. I had optimus prime till I bluw it up, at least the trailer, did nothing to the truck..

 

[BrockGrimes]

Had a jolt cola earlier.
Left almost dieing out of my list came close so often I quit couting it, live for the day!

I miss blowing up green army men with firecrackers, :twisted:

 

[blazed]

I miss blowing up green army men with firecrackers, :twisted:

a gallon of gas, a m80 and a box of shot gun shells for the gun podwer for the starting of the gas then you through the m80 in to the middle of the first few lines of army dude, once the fire is going you put water so the gas flow on fire down your drive way into the gutter still burning :twisted: :twisted: im sorry but i like playing with fire :lol: except when i get burned :lol:

 

[blazed]

i was sporting a mohock when parachute pants where big.:twisted:

im sporting one right now :lol: but i dont know if ive still got the pic of it or do i

 

[Mr Glassman]

I miss blowing things up!!! :mrgreen:

I use to spend all day building a model paint and all just to put a GI Joe in it, blow it up and burn it down to the ground. :mrgreen:

Those were the days, a twelve year old all amped up on Jolt cola, a gallon of gas,m-80s and matches! :twisted:

 

[gone_wheelin]

This is the best thread ever. As i'm reading it i'm being flooded with memories of when I was younger.

I still have most if not all of my original transformers and a couple of Go Bots. Stretch Armstrong was cool until he sprung a leak and got my toy box all sticky and nasty. I wish I still had my Stompers though. I had the regular ones with foam and rubber tires, the off road track and the one that you could run in the water. I remember having a knock off that had six wheels and I used to race my buddies up the dirt hill at school, that thing was cool. I remember going to MCD's and collecting all the HotWheels, which I still have, along with about 200 more die cast cars that I still collect.

Who remembers these:

The Animal - that thing was bad *** with it's retracting claws!
Air Jammer Road Rammer - I still have the buggy, motorcycle and bug looking thing
Criss-Cross-Crash - hours of fun
BigFoot - With the forward reverse selector in the bed
Tonka trucks - the metal ones that you could remove the tires.
Bicylces with the solid rubber tires - man you could skid for days on those things and never get a flat
Erector sets

Times were definitely different back then. I remember trick-or-treating around the neighborhood with just me and my frieds, didn't have to woory about being snatched up by some wacko. Discipline from your parents was something you feared and getting sent to your room was a punishment not a blessing. Kids now adays could probably spend a week in their room and not even notice it with the Internet and game consoles. I have two grown up nephews that I swear spend more time in their rooms playing games than they do anything else.

First computer the Coleco (sp) ADAM. That thing was as lound as a jack hammer beating on cement, then there was the Commodore 64. My first x86 computer was a 386 25Mhz with a wopping 20MB hard drive. I could only run DOS on that thing. Does anyone remember Gopher? Does it even exist anymore? Atari, Intellivision, Coleco, the original Sega and Nintendo, some of my favorite games ever where made for these systems.

Rotart phones, man those things sucked. I think just for fun they should bring those things back just so we can **** with todays youth and watch them try to figure out how to use it.

Chalenger explosion: I was in sixth grade and heard it on my big *** wrist radio, that only picked up AM, that my mom picked up at the thrift store.

I remember cable whan it was only a handful of channels and you had to get up to push the button. Never knew about the two button thing though but I do remember when cable was still analog and you could switch to the adult channels for some squigly(sp) entertainment with the hopes of catching an inverted frame where the picture was clear. Sure the nipples were white but who cared.

School, who remembers classes like Wood, Metal and Auto shop classes? Or a music class where the parents weren't forced to go out and dump a bunch of cash on a musical instrument 'cus the school had plenty to go around. Or other extracuricular(sp) activities that didn't require selling candy or washing cars to raise money for equipment.

I agree with what most everyone else has already stated, it's not all the kids fault that they are the way they are. I blame pour parenting and the government's disregard for further educating the kids. Seems like the first place to get hit with budget cuts is the schools. Who do they think will be running this country in the next 10 - 20 years? And parents have the looming threat of child protective services being called if their kid so much as shows up with a bruise. I had a nosey (sp) *** counciiler call CPS because I had grass stains on my jeans and I did'nt do my homework. Nevermind the fact that I was a healthy active youth who played full-contact football at lunch and had better things to do after school than my homework.

I did actually have to walk to school from elementry school all the way through high school. The middle school and high school I went to were actually 1.5 miles away and uphill, man that sucked, I couldn't wait to get my license back then.

Sorry for the long post,like I said, this thread brought back alot of memories. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

 

[blazed]

holy crap that is too much to read :shock: im going to go lay down after trying to read that

 

[dezfan]

Yeah the late 70's and 80's were a pretty cool time to grow up. I only hope that the kids of today are as lucky as we were and can look back in 20 years and say the same thing. Can you imagine what they will be saying about kids 20 years from now!:shock: Now there is something to think about!:lol:

 

[gone_wheelin]

I have a 7 year old niece and I will be interested to see what things she remembers in 20 years from her childhood.

 

[BUBBA069]

I have a 5 year old son, its a blast and some what sad to go down the toy isle with him. Most if not all toys leave nothing to the imagination.

My folks moved a while back and in the process found a box or two of old toys of mine that got shoved in a corner and forgot about. Some Transformers (mroe than meets the eye), Go-Bots and Rock Lords, some old He-man stuff and WWF thumb wrestlers, sh*t load of hot wheels, Robotec, and the go ol' erector set.

My boy looked at the transformers and "wheres the batteries go dad?" right then I decided that I will think twice about what toys I buy.

 

[dezfan]

Yeah, it seems that the toy companies merged w/ the battery companies at some time in the early 90's!:?

 

[microgoat]

Remember those LED handheld football games? And the Cheater Slick on the back of your bike?

 

[DrasticSports]

Integrity and Courage

Absolutely, Parents need to lead by example and show integrity!!! A father needs to show his son how to handle life's pressures and have the courage to face difficulty.

I have a 2 year old and take great price in my boy. There are to many weak father's in todays world.

I'm 40 and my son is 2. He usually spends a week with me the usual twice a month deal. When he goes to the shop with me he knows we are going to work. He cleans up the shop best as he can and I pay him for it. Then he has a choice at the end of the week to go to walmart or put the money in a coffee cup and save it for later. He usually wants to put it in the coffee cup and save it.


Case and point. Sitting on the front porch the other afternoon watching the traffic after the high school let out and what I mostly saw was kids driving cars that were no less than 3 years old. It was probably a case of daddy I want that and daddy goes and buys it. There is one kid that drives a red mustang. He passed my house doing about 80 MPH in a 40 MPH zone. The cops are worthless in this town. Called his dad told him the situation. He apologised for it and said he would take care of the problem. A few days later I could see he really solved the problem. The same kid drove by in a almost new 4X4 truck. Its the parents as well as the kids.

 

[gone_wheelin]

Remember those LED handheld football games? And the Cheater Slick on the back of your bike?

Hells yeah I remember those LED games. I was thinking about them earlier after I wrote my novel of a post.

What about the battery powered Spider-Man that climbed the string from his wrist. And sis anyone else have the, what seemed gigantic at the time, Godzilla with the hand that shot out and the flame from his mouth when you pushed the lever on the back of the head?

 

[BrockGrimes]

When Skateboarding was cool.
My cousins boy was trying to tell me about this real cool skater movie
called lords of dog town. I was like Boy I was skating the same time they was
they didn't invent the tricks they just got famous for it!

Hey was like yeah ok what ever, so I first got on his azz for being smart, then told him to take a ride over to my house. When we got here, I pulled out my original skate board, and was like this is how a skate board should look. Side rails busted off, nose chipped up, tail ground down to nothing, faded grip tape, skateboarding stickers, the kid was like holly crap, he'd never seen a board that had been used to that condition, I was like take your azz outside more often and actually skate and maybe yours will look like this some day. Then I hopped on it and busted out a few moves, impressed the kid, and realised it takes a lot of work to skate board, lol! It's good exercise.

 

[dezfan]

When Skateboarding was cool.
My cousins boy was trying to tell me about this real cool skater movie
called lords of dog town. I was like Boy I was skating the same time they was
they didn't invent the tricks they just got famous for it!

Hey was like yeah ok what ever, so I first got on his azz for being smart, then told him to take a ride over to my house. When we got here, I pulled out my original skate board, and was like this is how a skate board should look. Side rails busted off, nose chipped up, tail ground down to nothing, faded grip tape, skateboarding stickers, the kid was like holly crap, he'd never seen a board that had been used to that condition, I was like take your azz outside more often and actually skate and maybe yours will look like this some day. Then I hopped on it and busted out a few moves, impressed the kid, and realised it takes a lot of work to skate board, lol! It's good exercise.

:lol: :lol: :lol: That's showing the young whipper snapper how it's done!:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[joecrawler]

I got a bag of quarter sticks for my 13th birthday, Kids these days are yelled at for playing with fire. Back then our dad would be yelling make a bigger explosion.

 

[dezfan]

I got a bag of quarter sticks for my 13th birthday, Kids these days are yelled at for playing with fire. Back then our dad would be yelling make a bigger explosion.

Every year right before the 4th of July, we would go down to Mexico and buy a truck load of "fireworks"!:twisted: Blew the hell out of some trash cans and mail boxes back in the day!:lol:

 

[blazed]

Every year right before the 4th of July, we would go down to Mexico and buy a truck load of "fireworks"!:twisted: Blew the hell out of some trash cans and mail boxes back in the day!:lol:

oh man can i come with you this year please please please :lol: im going to have to have my teacher bring me back some. hes down there every weekend :shock: that like what 8 hours from cen cal :shock: