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Growing up, my family was pretty poor so we didn't really do the family vacation thing other than going to see my grandparents for holidays. In my youth we only took 2 true family vacations. The first was when I was 7 or 8 years old and we drove from Colorado to Seattle, WA. My dad borrowed a friends pop-up camping trailer and we camped along the way there and along the way back. Mostly I remember the overnight camping and on the way back we stopped at Yellowstone NP to camp and I remember that pretty vividly despite being so young.
Our 2nd was during the summer right after I graduated high school. My dad took us to California where we did the whole Disney thing and then also spent a couple of nights in San Diego. I feel bad now because my dad really wanted to make this trip special as I was going to be off to the military in the fall so this would be the last opportunity for a big family trip. All I really wanted to do though is be home and hanging out with my friends and my girlfriend before I left for the service so I spent a good deal of that vacation complaining and not wanting to be there. My dad really went out of his way to provide for a great trip and I wasn't particularly appreciative at the time...he passed in 2013 and I don't think I ever really told him that it was actually a good trip.
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I remember visiting a pet shop, I was there to pick up a couple of new leads for my 3 dogs. In the corner of the store was a cage with one sad little toy poodle in it, his hair was all scruffy, knotty, dull and long, he appeared to have ear infection by the way he was rubbing his head on the bottom of the cage, his eyes were dull.. he looked so sad. I was told he was nearly 5 months old and not likely to find a home as most people took the little puppies.
I could not leave him there to suffer another minute. Mario has had 13 happy years with me, he's a beautiful little dog and I'm so glad I found him.7 -
I love when true loves find each other ❤️slimgirljo15 wrote: »I remember visiting a pet shop, I was there to pick up a couple of new leads for my 3 dogs. In the corner of the store was a cage with one sad little toy poodle in it, his hair was all scruffy, knotty, dull and long, he appeared to have ear infection by the way he was rubbing his head on the bottom of the cage, his eyes were dull.. he looked so sad. I was told he was nearly 5 months old and not likely to find a home as most people took the little puppies.
I could not leave him there to suffer another minute. Mario has had 13 happy years with me, he's a beautiful little dog and I'm so glad I found him.
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So obviously everyone gets compliments left and right on here, but in real life for me they're few and far between. I remember when I was donating blood one time I had a little old lady as my tech. She was very keen on keeping eye contact the whole time when she just popped up and told me, you have really pretty eyes. No one has ever told me that my Dookie colored hazel eyes were pretty and its stuck with me and made me feel pretty good
Most of our memories are remembered because of the emotional response we feel during the moment it's taking place.
I am one of those people that tend to compliment strangers often. This was nice to read.3 -
I remember my Mom decorating the house at Christmas time. She made this beautiful snow scene using cotton balls, then proceeded to light the candle...yup, almost lost the house that Christmas. Good times!4
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I remember the taste of that peach I picked from the tree in the corner of the grounds encircled by the tenement houses in Newark NJ that summer when I was about 7 years old. The trunk was encircled with barbed wire to keep kids like me from climbing the tree ... but I climbed it anyway and got a huge peach off it. It was the best peach in all my memory.3
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crazyhorse8 wrote: »I remember landlines, nobody had a phone of their own, it was just 'the phone' in every house.
I remember in the early internet days, Yahoo and Lycos dominated search engines. Google didn't exist yet.
I remember MSN messenger being a thing
That land line phone was awesome! No cell phones yet and people actually talked to each other on the phone or in person...now that is a concept. This dates me doesn't it.
If this dates you, then it dates me too. Then again, so does my username.
It's kinda mindblowing that in the 90s it was perfectly normal for children of 10 years old to go into the city with their friends without any way of their parents contacting them. Also you're right, people did talk to each other more - and we weren't so constantly saturated with digital media.
I'm not going to be a boomer and go on a rant about it all being better in the old days - after all, mobile phones must have saved millions of lives by now, but I do have a strange nostalgia for a time before they were mainstream.
I've spent more years being alive without cell phones than with them, now THAT dates me. Although I remember in the mid 90s-ish some coworkers having massive clunky satellite phones.
It makes me sad to see a young couple out for dinner and both are engrossed in their phones, not exchanging a word of conversation with each other. Maybe I'm just a dinosaur and that's the new "togetherness".
It's also annoying that people assume my phone is surgically attached to me and they can always reach me, instantly.2 -
I remember being 16ish and attracted to a 24 year old man. When my mother asked me what I liked about him I told her, “he has a job.“ She thought that was hilarious. Nothing ever happened because he wasn’t a creep but that was an important turning point at which I learned I had a better screening system than my mother.3
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I remember the day my tearful daughter told me she was pregnant. I was still a few years off 40 so it was quite the shock. I calmed her down and told her it would all be OK... and it was. I have to say those couple of years babysitting while she did some further education were some of the best in my life and it helped forge a very special bond between Skyla and I 🥰5
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »I remember the day my tearful daughter told me she was pregnant. I was still a few years off 40 so it was quite the shock. I calmed her down and told her it would all be OK... and it was. I have to say those couple of years babysitting while she did some further education were some of the best in my life and it helped forge a very special bond between Skyla and I 🥰
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TwitchyMagee wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »I remember the day my tearful daughter told me she was pregnant. I was still a few years off 40 so it was quite the shock. I calmed her down and told her it would all be OK... and it was. I have to say those couple of years babysitting while she did some further education were some of the best in my life and it helped forge a very special bond between Skyla and I 🥰
Best mom
I had so much fun with her and still do... although my daughter half jokingly often says "mum its not funny to fill her full of sugar and send her home" 🤣😂1 -
🤣it’s a little funny ❤️slimgirljo15 wrote: »TwitchyMagee wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »I remember the day my tearful daughter told me she was pregnant. I was still a few years off 40 so it was quite the shock. I calmed her down and told her it would all be OK... and it was. I have to say those couple of years babysitting while she did some further education were some of the best in my life and it helped forge a very special bond between Skyla and I 🥰
Best mom
I had so much fun with her and still do... although my daughter half jokingly often says "mum its not funny to fill her full of sugar and send her home" 🤣😂
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I remember when I was pulled over for an expired registration and when the cop asked me if I had any outstanding warrants etc. etc. I said, “not that I know of.” And then he spent 20 minutes in his car and came back and said with obvious surprise & disappointment, “You have no record at all!”3
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TwitchyMagee wrote: »
🤣it’s a little funny ❤️slimgirljo15 wrote: »TwitchyMagee wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »I remember the day my tearful daughter told me she was pregnant. I was still a few years off 40 so it was quite the shock. I calmed her down and told her it would all be OK... and it was. I have to say those couple of years babysitting while she did some further education were some of the best in my life and it helped forge a very special bond between Skyla and I 🥰
Best mom
I had so much fun with her and still do... although my daughter half jokingly often says "mum its not funny to fill her full of sugar and send her home" 🤣😂
She laughs when she says it so its all good 😁
I try to remind myself that I have so many great memories.. seeing that little girls face for the very first time was magic. 💜
This thread was created because I was thinking on how I have some pretty awful memories and thought to myself.. you also have some pretty awesome ones too... think on those 🙂4 -
That is wisdom.slimgirljo15 wrote: »TwitchyMagee wrote: »
🤣it’s a little funny ❤️slimgirljo15 wrote: »TwitchyMagee wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »I remember the day my tearful daughter told me she was pregnant. I was still a few years off 40 so it was quite the shock. I calmed her down and told her it would all be OK... and it was. I have to say those couple of years babysitting while she did some further education were some of the best in my life and it helped forge a very special bond between Skyla and I 🥰
Best mom
I had so much fun with her and still do... although my daughter half jokingly often says "mum its not funny to fill her full of sugar and send her home" 🤣😂
She laughs when she says it so its all good 😁
I try to remind myself that I have so many great memories.. seeing that little girls face for the very first time was magic. 💜
This thread was created because I was thinking on how I have some pretty awful memories and thought to myself.. you also have some pretty awesome ones too... think on those 🙂
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My grandparents held season tickets to the Los Angeles Dodgers for decades, right behind home plate a few rows up. I remember every time my family visited, my brother and sister would be looking forward to visiting Disneyland, while I wanted to head to the ballpark for a game, eat salted peanuts and chuck the shells on the ground, learn how to cuss "properly" from my grandfather (to my mother's and grandmother's chagrin).5
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I Remember how excited I used to get - to get the prize in the cereal box… my brother and I would throw down over who got to open the box 😂 damn I’d love to be a kid again.5
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I remember having dreams when I was pregnant that my daughter was born with a full set of teeth. After I delivered her, the nurse was like "oh my God she has a tooth!" Turns out she was born with a calcium deposit on her gum, looked just like a tooth!4
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I remember when I was a kid we stayed at my grandmas for I think about 6 months after my mum and dad divorced. My uncle Baz, mums youngest sibling still lived at home with grandma, he played Darts every Thursday night and he would bring a family sized caramello chocolate home and give to us 3 kids along with emptying out his pockets.. we were allowed to divide all the loose change he had 😁 I loved uncle Baz, he was the only sibling of my mums 10 brothers and sisters not married. He passed away 10 years later, a senseless death.. a simple hospital procedure went awry, he got septicemia and died... I still miss him 😔4
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I remember being in Jerusalem on Easter in 1967, I was 6.
I remember very distinctly the smell of everything being cooked in olive oil.
I remember walking with mom down those narrow streets with stores on both sides, it looked just like in the movies.
I remember there were rules we were told to follow.
I remember going into all the places that Christians consider important.
I remember feeling claustrophobic inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, people being pushy.
I remember my mom grabbing me and holding my head against her as I heard the scream of a lamb.
It was traumatic.
I remember the feeling of all the eyes on me the whole time we were there.
I am thankful mom took me with her and I had that experience.
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I remember when I was about 8 years old, I was at home by myself(grandparents lived 3 houses down) and was outside playing basketball. As I was doing my best 3pt attempts I had a man and 2 women walk over to me from the apartments across the street. They were talking to me and telling me how they needed a strong young man to help them move a couch inside of their unit. Me being the naive but always wanting to help kid I was, decided to go with them. They watched me move a couch around by myself and then said to come with them, they had something for me in their bedroom. As soon as the bedroom door shut, something told me to run or something really bad was about to happen. I busted through that door and felt like my feet never even touched the stairs on the way down. They chased me to the entrance of the apartment complex but thankfully gave up from there. Remember kids STRANGER DANGER 😅5
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Ugh. Child predators. I’m i’m sorry that happened to you.I remember when I was about 8 years old, I was at home by myself(grandparents lived 3 houses down) and was outside playing basketball. As I was doing my best 3pt attempts I had a man and 2 women walk over to me from the apartments across the street. They were talking to me and telling me how they needed a strong young man to help them move a couch inside of their unit. Me being the naive but always wanting to help kid I was, decided to go with them. They watched me move a couch around by myself and then said to come with them, they had something for me in their bedroom. As soon as the bedroom door shut, something told me to run or something really bad was about to happen. I busted through that door and felt like my feet never even touched the stairs on the way down. They chased me to the entrance of the apartment complex but thankfully gave up from there. Remember kids STRANGER DANGER 😅
In my neighborhood they would’ve made a passing acquaintance with your parents first so you couldn’t call them strangers. And everyone would be like “those people? They would never do anything like that.”
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I remember Mrs. Kern, my grandmother’s next door neighbor. She was a German immigrant like many people in that neighborhood. Bavarian I think. It was a mostly Catholic neighborhood so I’m assuming. Though the Lutherans were well represented too.
Anyway. Mrs. Kern. She looked a little like Tasha Tudor with her headscarf & skirts.
She had a wonderful raised bed garden that mixed beauty & function. And she planted flowers beyond the fence that separated the backyards from the LIRR track so even they were beautified.
She made her own soap in the yard from scraps of fat she’d saved up.
She made the worst chocolate chip cookies but we always took them gratefully because she made them with love.3 -
I remember culottes. If palazzo pants, capris, & knickerbockers all had a baby together it would be culottes.3
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TwitchyMagee wrote: »I remember culottes. If palazzo pants, capris, & knickerbockers all had a baby together it would be culottes.
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TwitchyMagee wrote: »I remember culottes. If palazzo pants, capris, & knickerbockers all had a baby together it would be culottes.
I loved my culottes! 😀2 -
honey_honey_12 wrote: »TwitchyMagee wrote: »I remember culottes. If palazzo pants, capris, & knickerbockers all had a baby together it would be culottes.
I loved my culottes! 😀
I bet you have the legs for them too!1 -
i remember when people smoked everywhere like inside the house and restaurants and everything4
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TwitchyMagee wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »TwitchyMagee wrote: »I remember culottes. If palazzo pants, capris, & knickerbockers all had a baby together it would be culottes.
I loved my culottes! 😀
I bet you have the legs for them too!
I was 5’7” in 6th grade.
I hated it.
There was only one boy in elementary school that was as tall as me.3 -
I remember staying at my Nana's for school holidays, she was terrified of snakes. She was a cleaner at a small school and it was well known she was scared. Nana came home one day and used the first and only swear word I ever heard from her.. some kids had left picture books on their desks with pics of snakes ... she had to use a broom handle to close them. Boy she was mad.. 😂3
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