Random recollections to which others may relate

I got angry, if not personally offended, whenever the forecast said the approaching snow or ice was due to hit Friday evening or early Saturday morning instead of wiping out a chunk of the school week. It happened more than once.

 

The local TV station always played this music while they rolled the school closings across the screen. It was the sweetest sound I could possibly hear on a school day. It brings back good memories when I hear it now. I have it my phone and use it for my wake-up alarm.

 

I always drank water from a garden hose during the summer. Green hoses supplied the best tasting water.

 

My station too!

 

Same. PVC flavored.

 

True, the black hoses made the water hot.

 

Banana seats, sissy bars, apehangers...

 

Taking a roll of caps and scraping them with your fingernail until they ignited.

 

Take one cap from a roll, lay it in the middle of a small piece of aluminum foil, place a b-b over the center of the cap, and then fold the foil up and twist it into a teardrop shape. Throw this little missile at a concrete surface. If it hits correctly, you get a POP! with a little black smudge showing the point of the explosion.

 

No helmets or pads

 

"Go play outside and come home when the street lights come on."

 

No front and rear fenders.

Playing cards attached to bike frame with clothespins, ends inserted in rear wheel spokes for sound effects.

Bike ramp for jumps made out of scrap wood.

Long skid marks on street made by locking the rear brakes and skidding the bike around.

 

This! They were so good....

 

I remember Space Food Sticks......they were OK.

 

Removing the heads off of a bunch of strike anywhere matches. Take a stone and wrap the heads around it in tin foil. Then you can throw it against a hard object, wall or sidewalk, and have a mini smoke bomb.

 

Watering the lawn and then going out after dark with a flashlight and a coffee can to catch night crawlers to fish with the next day.

 

When you a kid they were great. When you are an adult looking back they had the consistency of Play-Doh.

 

During Junior High School, some students ran a Space Food Sticks sale during a basketball game. I forget for which cause.

 

Yes, and here was that sound efffect....SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS