Things I miss...

[Dominic]

about my childhood...

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] riding my bike everywhere
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] shopping for new school clothes and supplies with my Mom
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the feeling on the last day of school, when the whole of summer is at your doorstep
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] building a fort out of a refrigerator box
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] finding my Unlce's old Playboys and the excited, taboo-like feeling from that
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] seeing my brother and sister as little kids
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] little green army men
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] driving back from my cousin's on Christmas Eve, urging my Dad to drive even faster so that we can beat Santa Claus to our house
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] going to double features at the local movie theater
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Little League
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the unimaginable sense of urgency when I heard the ice cream truck and didn't have a quarter

from high school

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] not a damn thing


from my college days...

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] that exquisite yearning and build-up to still-new sex
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] literature classes
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] tennis team road trips
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] quarter beer night at St. George's Tavern, St. Augustine, FL.
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] St. Augustine
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] all-night Strato-matic football games
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] my white, 1981 RX-7
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] college girls in white shorts and tank tops

about Los Angeles...

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The view of the Hollywood Hills from my apartment
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The Nuart and La Brea movie theaters
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The view of downtown on a clear day, with the snow-capped moutains in the background
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] eating crepes at the Farmer's Market on Third & Fairfax on a Sunday morning while reading the paper
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the sunday flea market on Melrose
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the amazingly diverse residential architecture
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the Electic Lotus Indian restuarant in Los Feliz, and the restaurants in general
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The Pacific Ocean with the sun setting behind it

[Dominic]

in case it wasn't clear...you can list things you miss, too... [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[IronDragon1]

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] NBC's Saturday morning lineup
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A steady group of people to play Madden with
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] When $100 was a lot of money
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Structure in my academic studies
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Old napster

[MicroBob]

Man, I rode my bike freaking all over the place when I was 12-15.
Pretty incredible on some of the busy 2-lane back-road 'highways' with no shoulder that nobody got killed. Some close calls though.


I didn't know you could see snow-capped mountains from L.A.


first kiss jitters and stuff like that in H.S. were pretty cool.
Had some good friends when I was 16 or so.
somebody would score some wine-coolers and we were off to whatever drinking location we could come up with.

high-school crushes that were all-important at the time.
Usually accompanied by the feeling/smell of autumn.

sleep-over parties when I was 12 or 13 or so and we would drink coke all night and finally crash-out at 7 a.m. were good times too.


actually having hair on top of my head (back in the day I had a LOT of it)

[MicroBob]

A big one from my childhood:

Excitement of opening several new packs of baseball cards.

Also: NBC Game of the Week with Vin Scully

[kylewa10]

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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito


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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ABC's original TGIF line-up
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] American Gladiators
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Street Hockey
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Legos

[SL__72]

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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito


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How is this something you miss??? Just go [censored] order one.

[daveT]

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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito


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How is this something you miss??? Just go [censored] order one.

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That's why they are missed, they don't exist anymore.

When Taco Bell stopped the Chili Cheese Burrito, I stopped being a customer.

[katyseagull]

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That's why they are missed, they don't exist anymore.

When Taco Bell stopped the Chili Cheese Burrito, I stopped being a customer.

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No more Chili Cheese Burritos?
[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] I loved those things.

[Jackie Onassis]

Being able to buy three things of candy per day and not give a [censored] about having to exercise it off.

The last day of school one is right on.