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My Home Town
I grew up in a small town Jabalpur back in the 80s #Jabalpur#India)... Regardless of the weather, our dinner time was at 8:00 PM and bed time was 9.30PM
Eating out at a #restaurant was a huge deal, that only really happened when it was a birthday or a very special occasion.
There was no such thing as Fast food on every other day, and having a bottle of Pepsi or a Large ice-cream or pastry was a real treat. Boy oh Boy! Pass ur final exams and then you may get it.
You took your #school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your ‘home’ clothes. There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you either boarded the local bus (which by the way came after every hour. So if we missed one,we had to wait for another hour for the other one) or auto ! You got home did your chores and your homework before dinner.
Our house phone had a cord attached and a dial so there was no such things as private conversations!( Had no phone in the house till 1995)
We didn’t have Foxtel, Stan, #AmazonPrime or #Netflix, we had only a few channels esp Doordarshan to watch.
We played Cops & Robbers, Hide & Seek, Football, Lattu fight, Toy car race, Pari Pathhar and any other game we could come up with.....
Staying in the house was a PUNISHMENT and the only thing we knew about "bored" was --- "You better find something to do before I find it for you!"
We played music via magnetic tapes or radio.
We went to the local shop for grocery and candy used to be a couple of paise.
We ate what Mum made for dinner or we ate nothing at all
Bottled water was a luxury, we drank from the well
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark... sunset was our alarm.
If someone had a fight, that's what it was and we were friends again a week later, if not SOONER.
We watched our MOUTHS around our elders because ALL of our aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, AND our parents' best friends were all extensions of our PARENTS and you didn't want them telling your parents if you misbehaved! Or they would give you something to cry about.
We respected the Police, Firemen, Ambulance workers, Teachers, Doctors and Nurses.
We never answered back..... ever !!
We got detention at school for not doing homework, being late to class or being naughty.
Those were the good days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid 😁 I loved my childhood and all the Friends I hung around with. Good Times 🤓😘
Copy and paste if you are from the same #generation.... 🙂 I definitely am😀😀
#jabalpurcity #sabskardhani
© WinterPoetry📝
Eating out at a #restaurant was a huge deal, that only really happened when it was a birthday or a very special occasion.
There was no such thing as Fast food on every other day, and having a bottle of Pepsi or a Large ice-cream or pastry was a real treat. Boy oh Boy! Pass ur final exams and then you may get it.
You took your #school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your ‘home’ clothes. There was no taking or picking you up in the car, you either boarded the local bus (which by the way came after every hour. So if we missed one,we had to wait for another hour for the other one) or auto ! You got home did your chores and your homework before dinner.
Our house phone had a cord attached and a dial so there was no such things as private conversations!( Had no phone in the house till 1995)
We didn’t have Foxtel, Stan, #AmazonPrime or #Netflix, we had only a few channels esp Doordarshan to watch.
We played Cops & Robbers, Hide & Seek, Football, Lattu fight, Toy car race, Pari Pathhar and any other game we could come up with.....
Staying in the house was a PUNISHMENT and the only thing we knew about "bored" was --- "You better find something to do before I find it for you!"
We played music via magnetic tapes or radio.
We went to the local shop for grocery and candy used to be a couple of paise.
We ate what Mum made for dinner or we ate nothing at all
Bottled water was a luxury, we drank from the well
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark... sunset was our alarm.
If someone had a fight, that's what it was and we were friends again a week later, if not SOONER.
We watched our MOUTHS around our elders because ALL of our aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, AND our parents' best friends were all extensions of our PARENTS and you didn't want them telling your parents if you misbehaved! Or they would give you something to cry about.
We respected the Police, Firemen, Ambulance workers, Teachers, Doctors and Nurses.
We never answered back..... ever !!
We got detention at school for not doing homework, being late to class or being naughty.
Those were the good days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a real kid 😁 I loved my childhood and all the Friends I hung around with. Good Times 🤓😘
Copy and paste if you are from the same #generation.... 🙂 I definitely am😀😀
#jabalpurcity #sabskardhani
© WinterPoetry📝
