02/24/2024
This was my childhood!
I am from Alberta and when I was a child there was no area code prefix for every phone number. We didn't HAVE designer clothes unless you considered The Saan store designer wear.😉
You thought people were rich if they went to Sears or the Bay
Eating out at a restaurant was a huge deal that only happened for very special occasions .
Fast food was a bologna or pb&j sandwich to take outside in the yard .
Eating ice cream was a treat on a hot day.
You took your school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your play clothes. We had to do our homework before being allowed outside to play. We ate dinner at the table as a family.
We went to school everyday.
We played nicki 9 doors, Mother May I, Hopscotch, Cowboys and Indians, Cops and Robbers, 1,2,3 Not It, Red Light Green Light, Red Rover, Hide & Seek, Truth or Dare, Tag, Baseball, 4 square, Kick Ball, Dodge Ball, kick the can, rode bikes, spent the night outside in an box that a refrigerator came in and in sleeping bags on the front lawn!
We could spend hours playing Barbies or house. We played hockey on the street. We played baseball or softball at the local park every summer and swam in the river or the lake . No one had their own pool and if you where one of the rich ones, it was ABOVE ground.
Staying in the house was a punishment and the only thing we knew about "bored"--- "You better find something to do before I find it for you!"
We ate what our parents made for dinner or we ate nothing at all.
There was no bottled water; we drank from the tap or the water hose (warm).
We watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, and rode our bikes for hours without a cell phone and had to be home by dark.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. If someone had a fight, that's what it was and we were friends again a week later, if not SOONER.
School was mandatory. Teachers and police were people who you could TRUST and RESPECT.
We watched our MOUTHS around our elders because ALL of our Aunts, Uncles, Grandpas and Grandmas AND our Parents best friends were also our PARENTS (they COULD & WOULD WHOOP Y'ALL!,) and you didn't want them telling your PARENTS if you misbehaved.
These were the good ole days. I loved my childhood!!!
⚜ Good Times ⚜
Copy & paste if this was your childhood.💯
