Day 109 - Remember When

I remember:

There was a smoking  area at the high school for both teachers and students

Cordless and cell phones did not exist.  One phone in the kitchen and one in my parents bedroom.  Dad wouldn't let us use the one in their room and the phone was for business so when he was home, no phone calls over 10 minutes.

No one locked their doors unless they were on vacation and you kept the keys in the car ignition so you could always find them.

We got up to turn the channels.  All 4 of them.

I got a perm every 6 months.

Teachers gave you pops for misbehaving or for putting your bookcover on incorrectly (I never understood that one Mr. Pillans.)

45 minutes of recess and an hour of PE every day.

Ice cream every Friday with lunch.

Coaches were assigned a subject, but taught nothing.

Jumping out of a tree and trying to fall on my arm and break it so I wouldn't have to write a paper.  I finally gave up and just wrote the darn thing.

Falling in and out of love every week.  Seriously.  (I'm trying to remember what that felt like now that  that my son is 12.)

Checking inappropriate books out from the library and hiding them from my mother.  Thus the whole serial killer phase when I was in 6th or 7th grade.

Wanting a boy to like me but refusing to change to make it happen.

Losing all my friends in 6th grade for being too bossy.

Field trips and field day.  I loved, loved, loved them.

Running faster than any other girl in elementary school.

Stealing a coin purse in first grade and feeling guilty for it for 38 years and counting.

Getting the chicken pox in 10th grade when I had just started a new high school.

Copying the tests for Biology II for the teacher and refusing to look at them because I didn't want an unfair advantage.

Reading Gone with the Wind in 2 days when I was 13.

Being hooked on soap operas at the age of 5.

My mom reading to me every day until I could read myself.

Being told by my 8th grade English Teacher that I just wasn't an A student and making an 89 on practically every paper of the year.

Making moonshine in Science lab.