Reminisce...

[Sigmund]

I didn’t hear that phrase. I had an Irish mother (born and raised in the old country), with an Irish temper, that wielded a large wooden spoon with the ferocity of a gladiator.

My mother is Mestizo. She could throw a chancla (slipper or flip flop) and hit anyone she wanted no matter what room in the house we were in. I swear she could make that chancla turn corners and open doors. You ever get a chancla upside your head you will remember it.
And the fly swatter! Funny how she could miss a fly by inches but that freaking flay swatter would elongate four feet so she could swat us with it.

Peace.

Cool thread, DiO!

 

[Sigmund]

I remember at Christmas time every year sitting in front of the TV to watch the Christmas specials. Rudolph, Frosty, The Little Drummer Boy, Santa Clause is Coming to Town, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Charlie Brown. It was the best time!

Ooo! Me, too! Me, too!

Did you ever get to watch, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" ? That was so cool. (They don't show the original one any more. )

When our kids were growing up and started asking about whether Santa was real we would read them the article.

Yes, Virginia ... - The New York Sun

Thank you!

Peace.

 

[Sigmund]

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.

I'm a bottle redhead. AKA artificial redhead. I guess that makes me an artificial nut?

Peace.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

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.

LOL. Your story conjures up images of this.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I'm a bottle redhead. AKA artificial redhead. I guess that makes me an artificial nut?

Peace.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't?

 

[Autumn Gust]

I remember the Washer & "Dryer" in my grandparents basement. The "dryer" was actually a wringer you used before hanging the clothes on the washline.

My grandmother had one of these too. I never went near it but was still always scared my long hair would get caught in the wringer!

 

[blunthead]

I remember being able to play "knock knock" on a neighbor's house without the risk of being shot.

You remind me of people who tell knock knock jokes who need to be shot.

 

[blunthead]

I like to reminisce with people I don't know. - Steven Wright

 

[blunthead]

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

This was back when night owls were marginalized.

 

[Kurben]

LOL. Your story conjures up images of this.

It was far worse!!

 

[Autumn Gust]

This was back when night owls were marginalized.

 

[blunthead]

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.

It drives us redheads nuts to be assumed nuts.

 

[blunthead]

I'm a bottle redhead. AKA artificial redhead. I guess that makes me an artificial nut?

Peace.

No. You can be nuts only if you don't realize you are.

 

[hossenpepper]

I miss when Fruit Roll-ups were large, round sheets of condensed fruit and not small, equilateral squares of fruit flavored plastic.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

A time before the internet... and the thrill when you’d come across an older Stephen King novel at a bookstore or yard sale that you didn’t have and didn’t know existed.

 

[Sigmund]

Believing in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus.

When everything seemed possible.

Peace.

 

[Kurben]

I'll never forget the winter we spent at our countryplace. Me and a friend had created some real good trails for a sledge (you know, the Calvin and Hobbes kind) and my father came up to us and said he should show us how to ride a sledge downhill. And he sat down in it... And went straight into a big pine! I laughed like it was the last laugh i ever was permitted to laugh (i know, i know, not nice to laugh at your father and all that but it was funny! And he didn't hurt himself). It was just such an end to his bragging. That was a real snowy winter. Not like this one. Not a single snowflake has fallen yet.

 

[blunthead]

The time when redheads were admired for their apparent superiority.

 

[blunthead]

I miss not feeling my lifestyle and freedom threatened by political correctness. I miss not having to watch American society melting down.

I also miss growing up in a neighborhood where your friends' moms were kind of surrogate moms for all the kids. In most ways I miss my childhood in general; especially my teen years and being 18 and knowing that I was very alive, full of something which included the concept of energy but which was much more.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

The time when redheads were admired for their apparent superiority.

Well they do say it's a very fine line between genius and crazy.