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Flex030 wrote:Ok guys 5days to go and counting....
*****To ease the monday morning blues*******
If you were a child of the 80s and early 90s in Trinidad, you might remember:
- giving someone and receiving a meggie
- collecting empty tic-tac containers for the smell, filling them
with water then drinking it
- you filled empty orchard cartons with air and jumped on it to make
a popping noise to scare someone
- you screamed at the faintest sound of thunder
- getting licks with a guava whip or a wooden ruler with a metal
strip on the side
- when push point pencils were in style
- when stationery on a whole was in style, nice erasers were prized:
scented and colourful, sharpeners shaped like hamburgers or mechanical
pencils and pilot pens, fine-point preferably
- when 'Bata' was not in style but you had to wear one anyway
- carrying ah lunch kit with a thermos flask inside
- reading Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boys, Judy Blume,
Sweet Dreams or Sweet Valley High.
- wearing VERY ying, very short, very tight khaki pants to school
- the Coca-Cola yo-yo craze
- at some point in time, having to ask someone or be asked:
a) if yuh father is a glass maker
b) if yuh have ants in yuh pants
c) if yuh monkey glands acting up
- you loved pencil cases and you wanted a nice one shaped like a
giant pencil with a zip on one end
- holding hands with a another girl or boy to go somewhere on an
outing (everybody, find ah partner!) meant that he/she was your good
friend
- having your skin stained for days with iodine after you fell
- boys making guns out of paper and shooting each other
- you read 'Lucky Dip' and West Indian Readers
- pennycools costing 25 cents
- getting excited over the sight of three red beans sprouting on a
wet piece of toilet paper in an old mayonaise jar
- eating condensed milk from the can, tomato balls, paradise plums,
chilibibi and planter's snacks
- wearing poppies on Poppy Day was a fashion statement
- cheese paste sandwiches with food colouring on Kiss bread cut in triangles
- playing 'in ah fine castle, do you hear my sissy-o', 'I lost my
glove on a Saturday night and found it Sunday morning...'
- the smell of whitening your shoes
- in primary school, you methodically collected eraser shavings
- reciting time tables
- you played catch, red-light/green-light, there's a brown girl in
the ring and hand clapping games till your palms stung
- a re-fashioned balloon was called ah chikey-chong
- you made those fortune telling finger toys from copy book paper
- You used to recite the National pledge everyday, 'I solemnly swear
to dedicate my life to the service of my God and my country...' But
you cyar remember it now!
- having to religiously support some curry-q, bar-b-q or chinee-q for
the school
- singing parang in a school Christmas concert or a folk song,
'mangoes...mangoes..'
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