When someone on the block got a new refrigerator we couldn’t wait to get our hands on the box.
If you ever found an old baby carriage you were the “man”. You would make a go cart. It never cost a dime because we used whatever we could find. I remember using a bunch of nails bent over to hold the axle to a piece of 2x4.
All my short pants were my old long pants my mom cut.
Damn, to read this, we’re all related!
The first fall from this generation was the bicycle helmet requirement! 
The last was the Covid Mask… 
No recovery in sight from that one.
man some of You guys are old…
…and lived a better, more fulfilled childhood than the following generations ever thought they did. 
Danger!! Danger!! Things are really getting messed up by the next generation. LOL
Mine was green and had a slick on the back. 
Mine was a three speed, which was good for a 5-10 mile ride…NOT!
My biggest fear growing up was quicksand. I was pretty sure that next puddle would be the one!
Look how technology has advanced. Now we have sink holes that swallow whole cars. (Not to mention a building or two)
Whooda thunk!
My first video game. Have they changed any…?
…And a father who yelled out at his son who was hysterically crying. “If I hear that sound come out of you again, you’d better have an arrow sticking out of your chest”
My god! You could put someone’s eye out with that game! Plus, it probably doesn’t have “Do not place in butt” on it! 
LOL!
I enjoyed that game, too!..and was pretty good at it. 
It added to the game if each team stood on opposite sides of the house and your target was on the other side.
Don’t look in the mirror, old man!!! 
It is just as important to know where you’ve been as to see where you are going! In fact knowing one helps to clarify the other.
