15/07/2025
I grew up in Soweto.♥️♥️ We walked to school and back with friends. Our dinner time was at 7h39pm.
Eating out at a restaurant NEVER happened. It just wasn’t a thing fast food was fish n chips
You took your school clothes off as soon as you got home and put on your play clothes. We had to do our homework before being allowed outside to play. We ate dinner at the table.
Our rotary dial phone sat on our ‘phone table’ in the main hallway and had a cord attached, so there was no such things as private conversations, mobile phones didn’t exist
TVs didn’t have remotes, we had to actually get up to change the channel - and there were only a few to choose from! 3 actually
We played Cops and Robbers, Hide & Seek, Tag, and rode bikes with cards or plastic bottles in the spokes and played Football on the street.
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 ate what mum made for dinner or we ate nothing at all.
Everyone was welcome and no one left our house hungry
There was no bottled water we drank from the tap or the garden hose outside.
We watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, and rode our bikes for hours, ran around and went on our roller skates that attached to our shoes.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. We played till dark...sunset was our time to go home
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.
These were the good ol' days. So many kids today will never know how it feels to be a REAL KID. I loved my childhood
Good Times ❤️
