Turning the pillow over

[SPQR]

to the cool side, the ice cream man, the orange at the bottom of my Christmas stocking, TV tag, Shake-A-Puddin', Water Wiggles, kick the can, couch pillow and blanket forts, playing cards in my bike spokes, oak tree helicopters, drinking from the garden hose, Christmas tree lights reflected on the ceiling, giant leaf piles, tire swings, grass blade races in the gutter when it rains, getting up to change the channel, heat lightning, whiffle ball (the cherry blossom tree is first, the dogwood is second, the piece of wood in the ground is third, and the bare spot is home), base huggers, the crust of snow at the top of my zipper against my throat after sledding, that funny tickle in my throat after a day at the beach, Habitrail, 10 inch GI Joes with foot locker, Quisp vs Quake, dinner on the back porch, picking out the pumpkin, picking out the Christmas tree, TV's on metal stands with wheels.

What am I forgetting?

[Maine-i-acs]

1. "ghost man on second!"

to be appended to the wiffle ball segment ... otherwise dead-on!

In my region - add Snow-forts.

On edit: Jiffy-pop on the stovetop.

[SPQR]

3. And one base

on an overthrow. ;-)

[jpak]

2. Yer Johnny-7-OMA

:)

[kmla]

4. Wheel-O's, Super Elastic Bubble Plastic,

the excitement of watching a TV in your classroom (TV in a school? Unheard of), Catfish Hunter and free agency, candy necklaces, freeze tag, and Big Daddy Roth car stickers and illustrations.

[liberalitch]

6. the sound of the 8mm...

getting to be the one who turns the film strip! oh, man.... that's power!

[liberalitch]

5. Lightening bugs in jars...

my dad (the 1st animal rights activist i ever knew) would make me let them out after a few minutes.

[sundancekid]

7. the real mickey mouse club

... a real sock-up

[Duncan Grant]

8. Rinsing with 'dixie cups',

the smell of 'creepy crawlers', the small vent window used by the front seat passengers, 'burnt matches' art at Bible School, strawberry Kool-Aid, the Redsocks game on a transistor radio, barefoot all summer, rain on Memorial Day, fireworks, demolition derby, Life magazine, Vietnam, carbon paper, avocado green appliances, wide leather watch bands, butch wax, landing on the moon, communism, coming home when it got dark.

:hi:

[neverborn]

9. Connnfuuusseed...