Now stop me if u all heard this on this forum already i will take it off but..
f 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
>> >
>> >wearing socks with frills
>> >
>> >wearing panties with frills on the back
>> >
>> >the Coca-Cola yo-yo craze
>> >
>> >how handwriting was a big thing in primary school among girls,
>>you wrote
>> >extremely small and extremely neat with care
>> >
>> >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
>> >
>> >you were a Brownie or a Cub Scout, no one was quite sure what
>>'Red Cross'
>> >people did except you called them if somebody fell down
>> >
>> >having your skin stained for days with iodine after you fell
>> >
>> >boys making guns out of paper and shooting each other
>> >
>> >saying "ABC, ketch ah crab, put it in ah paper bag" to some First
>>years or
>> >Second years
>> >
>> >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
>> >
>> >Netball, Rounders and cricket was serious business!
>> >
>> >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 been to
>>Cleverwoods at least twice for a class outing.
>> >
>> >Who had the most and prettiest Barbie dolls used to run tings.
>> >
>> >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.."
>> >
>> >if you went to Catholic primary school: prayers, prayers and more
>> >prayers.
>> >
>> >Teens of the 90s (early to mid) in Trinidad, you might remember:
>> >
>> >fellas got an earring too-just one
>> >
>> >football limes and Intercol
>> >
>> >no matter
>>where you went to school, Trinity College seemed so far away
>> >
>> >your identity was defined by your school, there were girls and
>>then there
>> >were "Convent girls" (be that good, bad or indifferent)
>> >
>> >red band maxis and their hard pong
>> >
>> >you hoarded coloured ink pens
>> >
>> >you stressed about SBAs in Form 4 and 5
>> >
>> >if you travelled home, you had to lime first before you got there
>> >
>> >CXC lessons and the lessons' lime
>> >
>> >boys hitting school desks to start a chanting session
>> >
>> >maxis and maxi conductors were the scourge of Secondary school in
>>these
>> >days, parents were always complaining about them
>> >
>> >you knew at least one girl who was "dealing" with a maxi-man
>>Knight Rider,
>> >Street Hawk and Mc Gyver
