So I wanted to mix things up a bit and write a post about the days we all miss and reminisce about.  For me, my elementary school days in the late 80s to early 90s are unforgettable.  I mean, in Brooklyn, those were the days where my first crush was literally the girl next door and when my sister walked me to school, she and her Grandmother walked the same route.  Those were also the days when I called her house to ask her out and she chuckled, said no and silently hung up the phone. lol.  Needless to say the day after, everybody in my 3rd grade class knew about it. How embarassing.

Those were also the days when the corner store/bodega was the hang out spot and you could get your 25 cent bag of potato chips, or in my case, a pack of cinammon swirls (till this day, i love em’).  You could even get yuor favorite quarter water and some nah’ latas or sour powers.  Those were the days of the school trips to the Botanical Gardens where you wasn’t shyt if you didn’t pack a hero to eat for lunch…..Some of ya’ll may call’em subs, grinders, hoagies, but in NY, that shyt was a hero…..lol.  And a hero with the works….the salt, pepper, and vinegar with all types of meat in that bad boi…i personally don’t like tomatoes in my heros….anyway, some cats couldn’t afford a hero so they brought a home-made sandwich and either got got for their sandwich or got made fun of.   All the girls in the back of ths bus doing gossip ish or doing hand-clap games and passin notes and the boys were trading their Michael Jordan cards or in my case, Marvel Masterpieces.

Those were the days where when you got in a fight, it only started cause someone in the crowd pushed you into that cat and whoever fell on the ground first was a herb.  Those were the days of teacher’s pets, hall monitors, walking in a straight line with the shortest kids in the front of the line (which was me! lol) and the tallest kids thinking they could run shyt….which they did.  Those were the days when holdin hands and feelin on girls’ booties were catchin on and the idea of sex was scary and borderline gross.  Those were the days of gym or P.E where you played 7-up, duck duck goose, dodge ball, etc….. You remember when all the dudes was outside on the playground playin Suicide and if you tapped the ball cats was ready to catch it and throw it 90 mph to hit u in yo foe’head…..Memba playin ball and everybody tried to be Jordan doing some lame lookin fade away and stickin their tongues out screamin “Joooordan” before every move. lol

Those were the days when Naughty By Nature dropped “OPP” and you screamed out, “Yeeeeeah you know me” lol…..Those were the days of report cards and city-wide tests and you were scared as hell to show your parents that you got a “U” lol.

Damn, those were the days when light skin cats were in, no matter how ugly they were. haha….Girls were feening after like 1 or 2 dudes in your class and all the dudes were tryna holla at one girl (her head was mad gassed wasn’t it?). There was the typical fat boy and fat girl in your class and you tried to hook’em both up just cause they were fat (wasn’t that f’ed up)…But then after school ended and the summer came, next fall they came thru and they shed mad weight…(sometimes).  Those were the times when girls with long hair thought they were the shyt and shitted on girls who had to wear extensions or weaves and the infamous “itty bitty titty committee.”  Ya’ll remember the lunch room? Ya’ll remember those nasty hamburgers and “catsup” instead of ketchup?  Ya’ll remember that one African kid and folk were sayin “you’re an African booty scratcher?” (i was that African kid but folks couldn’t tell I was African so I suppose that was someone else’s grief).

Umm…what else….Oooooh, how could I forget…..ya’ll remember when Super Nintendo came out and you ain’t have one so you went to your people’s house to play that jawn! Or when you went to the arcades and played Street Fighter 1. lol…not even Special champion edition…. the first street figter where you could only play as ryu or ken. lol. The arcades was the place to show off your “hado-ken”…..haha, those were the days!!!  Or when Nintendo came out and you had that gun for duck hunt and you put that ish right on the screen of the tv. lol. lmao…..ooooh, ya’ll remember that “Gyromite” game and the robot that came wit it? Remember how excited you were when Mario got that racoon’s tail? lol…i’m buggin

 Remember the old school cartoon line-up that you used to be running home to watch: Tale Spin, Rescue Rangers, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Darkwing Duck, Ducktales…

I could go on and on…..let’s all reminisce ya’ll.  What your story?

~Thesis