What Do and Don't you miss from childhood?

[Casper]

I do miss...
My dad. I was a daddy's girl and very tomboyish, so I did everything with him. Helped him in the workshop, watched Star Trek, went camping.... I think one of my very favorite things to do was lay on our tummies on the bed and he would teach me to read. I still have my favorite book from that time, which was also one of my dad's favorites from when he was a kid.


I don't miss...
The summer of '98. I was in daycare and had tubes in my ears, so whenever we got to go to the city pool once a week I had to wear this ridiculous hot pink band around my head. On top of that, I frequently got into chiggers so all the other kids deemed me unapproachable due to a "contagious case of cooties". I might as well just went to daycare every day holding a giant sign that said "freakshow". Oh, and I can't forget the fact that I also had tiny squinty eyes so on the playground everyone would call me a spy and run away from me. Seriously, the list goes on and on. Now I can kind of laugh at the things that were done to me, but at the time it was the worst feeling in the world to be an outcast.

[lolli94]

I do miss...
hours and hours of playing with my sisters and our 20+ toy horses. Riding my real horse. Biking to the grocery store for my mom. Going to the hardware store with my dad.

I don't miss...
Well...I can't think of anything I didn't like about my childhood...

[Alysser]

Seriously, the list goes on and on. Now I can kind of laugh at the things that were done to me, but at the time it was the worst feeling in the world to be an outcast.

Courtney, I think that's why we both like Spock so much....

[robinh]

Originally posted by Casper

Now I can kind of laugh at the things that were done to me, but at the time it was the worst feeling in the world to be an outcast.

I'm amazed there were that many of us out there. I felt the same way.

[Karen]

I guess I was lucky - I am pretty much a klutz, but was usually picked not last, but next-to-last for any athletic endeavors. I always was very friendly to everyone, so we all knew I was a klutz and would probably fail miserably at most anything - if I hit the ball fair, I'd still be likely to trip on my way to base ... but enough people liked me anyway.

For any sports activity, even *I* would pick me last! I am strong, and willing to try, but that's it for positives attributes in athletics! My only sports victory of note ever was I did beat the captain of the football team at croquet the one time we played that in gym! I was so used to playing on our course at home, which had various slopes and hazards naturally, that playing on a perfectly flat field was a breeze!

I do not miss getting wheezy as a kid - now thankfully medications have improved enough that I rarely need an inhaler!

I do miss being able adn willing to eat almost everything! (My food allergies did not kick in until much later into adulthood!)

[lolli94]

I also miss...
my mom's pink applesauce, made from cold, crisp NY apples. I miss the beautiful, bright leaves around the lakes in the fall. We've lived in IN for years now, but I won't forget the beauty of the north-east.

[cassiesmom]

I miss... playing in the band- I'm hoping to join the community concert band after the new year. (It's too late now to join for the fall concert.) I miss living in a neighborhood where people know, trust and look out for each other. When I was little, there were a bunch of kids on my block; and if any of us screwed up, no matter whose house we were at, it always got back to your parents. On the other hand, though - if something happened and your parents weren't available, someone else's parents would always let you stay at their house till your mom or dad got home. They would call and say, "Elyse is at our house, we ate an after-school snack and she is going to stay and do her homework with us, and then we will walk her home."

I don't miss... being the constant target of a bully (two girls and a boy who were in kahoots).

Snakemama--- ((((HUGS))))).

[pomtzu]

Things I miss:

Ice skating at night on the pond at the end of my street. A man that lived right on the banks would turn a flood light on to shine out over the ice, so we could all skate safely. When he turned the light out, we knew it was time to go home.

Hot fudge sundaes at the drug store ( not called a pharmacy back then ) that had a soda fountain.

Riding the bus with my mother when we would go shopping in all the big stores in Providence. Of course we always ate lunch out too when we went, and that was always a real treat.

Saturday afternoon high school football games,, and the BIG game each year ( Warwick vs Cranston ) which was on Thanksgiving morning. I know Gretchen remembers that too! In the afternoon it was off to Aunt Milly's house for a huge Thanksgiving dinner - Italian style - with enough food to feed an army.

The long drive ( or so it seemed ) to Lexington to visit Aunt Lilly, and the fun I had exploring in her old house - especially in the attic, and also "playing" her piano.

Going out on Dad's boat in Narragansett Bay and digging for clams with our toes at low tide.

Visiting my Uncle Vinny's hobby shop in Providence. I never walked out the door without some trinket or craft to make, that he would give me before we left.

And of course, going to Uncle Archie's pizza shop in Pawtucket and feeling special because I could go in the back and watch him at work in the kitchen. And of course there were always pizzas to take home too.

Washing and drying the dinner dishes with my brother. Yup - the days before there was ever an automatic dishwasher in the house. We would alternate each week - one week I'd wash and he would dry, and the next week we switched. I always liked to dry, since when my brother dried, he'd wait till the towel was nice and damp, then chase me all around the kitchen, snapping the towel at me. It stung like crazy when he connected, but it was all in fun.

I could go on and on with what I miss, but you can see it's just about all family related. They are all gone now, and I'm the lone survivor.



Things I don't miss:

Walking to school in nasty weather. Yes - we WALKED to school if we lived under 2 miles from the school we attended.

My mother telling me that I did something that I didn't do. To this very day, if anyone says I said or did something that I didn't, it makes my blood boil!!!

My high school English teacher constantly comparing me to my brother. I think the old bird had the hots for him. One day she started in about my "brother John" and what a wonderful student he was and yadda-yadda-yadda. Before I realized it I came right out and told her "I'm not my brother John". Oops - I thought my butt was headed straight to the principal's office, but she never said or did anything.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of much right now. That's a good thing - the good far outweighs the bad!