S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y

March 13, 2007 · Posted in Reflections · 7 Comments 

Growing up, Saturdays were always my favorites! Why Saturdays you ask? Simple really, it was cartoon day. My favorite was the Bugs Bunny Road Runner hour. Between Bugs and whatever else I could get I was usually transfixed for about three hours that day!

Heres a quick side note. If you want to get rid of childhood obesity in this country then get rid of all the 24 hour cartoon stations. They have no reason to get up and go outside when they have a constant barrage of cartoons to pacify themselves.

Right after the cartoons ended I would go outside and enjoy the weather. Didn’t matter hot, cold, rainy, or dry, I was out there in it! I loved the cold snowy days because I could go out in my parka and walk the neighborhood and it seemed like I was the only one left on the planet. It was so peaceful! You can’t get that kind of quite anymore either. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere and they don’t care what the roads are like. They all pile in their SUV and take off like theres no tomorrow.

I had to use my imagination a lot when I was growing up. Not like today with everything spelled out for us. Even playing with my Lincoln logs I had to use my imagination, I mean how many log cabins can you build before you realize they all look the same? Tinkertoys, I have no idea what those were about but they required either a good imagination or a PHD in engineering to get anything out of them. What else, oh yes, the Erector Set. I loved my erector set, not because of the building potential that it represented but because of the words that came out of my dads mouth when he stepped on one of the bolts in the middle of the night!

I loved those days but there are times when I wonder how I survived. My fascination with tormenting my father came on pretty early and stayed with me well into adulthood.

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