Things you miss from being a kid?

What are the things you miss from being a kid?

I miss Sega Mega Drive.
Puff Candy.
When the Beano and The Dandy was a good read.
Collecting football stickers.


I'm tired now so I'll post more later.
What do you miss from being a kid?

 

I miss just being care free to be honest, and the memories you have with your friends that no one else but yourself will realize how good it was... Oh how I took childhood for granted.

 

Yes, the first two things that came to my mind were innocence and ignorance. The '90s were a relatively peaceful time from a Western point of view. I don't remember the Berlin Wall (I was born just a few months before it was torn down), and the Balkan Conflict and first Gulf War were before my time as well. I didn't really know people still hated each other until about 2000 when I started reading more about history.

 

Finding * mags under the beds of my mates big brothers In the 70's long before the net and late night Channel 4 movies, * mags were the highlight of any boy's life :icon_mrgreen:

 

Adventures and climbing and stuff when on holiday at St Andrews or Loch Lomond or going across the loch to Rob Roy's cave and actually finding the remains of RobRoy's camp fire and believing all the stuff yur uncles and old man were telling you. That was great. I do the same to my kids. We find dinosaur bones and stone age arrow points all the time.

I also miss the carefree ignorance like Mr Brightside said. And ice slides when we used to have real winters in the 70s and 80s.

Thrashing England at half time in the street at the Scotland-England game.

Exploring down the Moss or Penny Pond and finding deceased animals.

 

robbing a sweet warehouse in toryglen early 70's..

 

No fear
No responsibility

 

jumpin the heedges, playing kerbie, and huge sidey's where the whole scheme would take part then the inevitable, "please maw, can i stay oot for 10 mare minutes!??"

Choice!

 

carefree n no pressure

 

Not having to work, not having a body that ached everytime I do something physical, being fast as *, not being depressed, going to school and * around with my mates, meeting people without the obligatory handshake, playing football for HOURS, being able to see mates without them/you having to check with the girlfriend/wife, being optimistic about the future, thinking the best about people, rather than the worst and finally, NOT BEING IN DEBT.

One good thing about being an *; at least we beat the DOBs these days!

 

All of the above and not having * on the brain 24 hours a day

 

Not having a care in the world where you lived everyday as if it was your last.

 

Getting a huchie off the back of a number 48 bus down the Peat Road.
Making primitive frisbies with ice lolly sticks and melted tar.
Lucky Bags.
Pocket money.
Shopping in Shawlands with my maw.
Bus runs to Saltcoats.
Puting bricks on the railway track to see the train cut it in half.
Pelting the janny with dog * wrapped in newspaper.
Kelvin Hall Circuses.
Roaming from Nitshill up to Queens Park and back wi ma pals.
Blue LandRovers with steel meshed windows and the words 'POLICE' written on the side.
My granny.

 

First day of the schol holidays. 6 weeks seemed like forever. I suppose it is now that we're working.

First day school hols was happiness, pure unadulterated elation.

 

40 a side. Coats for goalposts. :icon_mrgreen:

 

Innocence, Naivety blah blah blah, but what i really miss are 'Nutty' bars, what i would give for one of them!

 

Whoever said luckybags, well remembered! Totally forgot about them. Also, candysticks with football cards inside. I think I have the complete set from '94-'95.