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Autumn Gust

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Remember when the three TV stations played the national anthem, signed off for the night, and left you with this?


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champ1966

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I remember when I could play outside all day and my mom never knew where I was. I would check in around lunch time and be gone again. The kids in my neighborhood had a nature club and we would be out in the woods identifying tree and shrub species, flowers, animals, tending our own pet cemetery (not Sematary) of personal pet family members and animals we found deceased out in the woods, getting a baseball game together, or kickball in the cul-de-sac. We would ride our bikes everywhere! Come home for dinner and back out again! When the streetlights came on, I was to be home, but even then I would be on my driveway catching the frogs that ventured out. I had a great childhood.

Me too, when the summer break seemed to go on forever. I was 10 in '76 when we had the longest heatwave on record here in the UK. We would play constantly in the beck (small stream) behind our house.Making dams (that's why IT is so poignant to me,and definitely my favourite book) and hay beds.Happy days, not just on the tv, but as a way of life.
 

DiO'Bolic

Not completely obtuse
Nov 14, 2013
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As a punishment for when I was in trouble, I always had to use one of these for my mother when she needed mixing done. Come to think of it, I always seemed to be in trouble whenever she needed to use the mixer. Hmmm... Smart thinking mom, didn’t quite figure it out until now.

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Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
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I laughed so hard during this moment in Mad Men. There are so many things just wrong about this (pregnant woman smoking for one), but the fact that the mom doesn't think a thing about her kid in a plastic bag but more concerned about the dry cleaning -- just made me laugh, because, yes, I was the kid who would use the dry cleaning bag as a fashion statement.

Boy how times have changed.

 

king family fan

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Jul 19, 2010
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Nope. My brother and sister are redheads, I have an aunt and uncle who are redheads, several cousins, nephews and nieces who are redheads. I speak from experience when I say they’re all nuts. :)
My brother and sister are redheads too!!
Oh,my grandaughter must be nuts shes got red hair.
 

Kurben

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I remember when we went out to shop the christmas tree. We were a tad late i showed. We had thought that if we gat a tree a little later it would keep longer. Big mistake. Me and my father wandered from place to place. Sorry but we have sold out. Finally (and i mean finally, if it wasn't for me saying just one more.. We must have a tree alot of times he would have given it up but he was a good father and walked the extra mile to find me a tree). We found one eventuelly that technically was a christmas tree but it looked like what it really wanted to do was sneak up behind you and bite you. So my father asked me: What do you say? It is this this tree or no tree it seems like. I said that we should take. Christmas without a tree... Nooooo. But that tree looked like something out of a SK-story (but this was before i had read anything of him). We bought it and had a wonderful christmas but that tree was scary. The last christmas tree in Stockholm and definitely the ugliest but i learned to like it.