Summer Rules When We Were Kids - 07.03.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, guys, it is summertime. We all know the Generation
xers and Baby boomers had to follow certain summertime rules
to survive our childhood. So guys, let's reminisce talk about
our favorite memories. You know, when our parents had no
idea where we were, what we were doing. We could
play outside all day long, all day could we had

(00:23):
two shirts? Yeah, yes, ride our bikes anywhere, no time.
We was adults at seven.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
We was wrong. We take care of ourselves.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We was adults. We had we were latching kids.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I had, I had, I had my own cup, I
had my own ride. It was a bike. I get around,
I go play, and I come back and I'm getting
my full day of work, not my job. Sandwich on
your own. You're gonna get yourself together, okay, I mean
I knew how to cook at.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Eight eight, eight years old, I was cooking.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Had to clean up really well, clean up that house.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
At eight.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
See, I had a wagon. Man that was my job.
Uh wagon had the wagon of gold or goal and
fly with the gates on it, the ones with the
railings that you put around both sides. You couldn't play
in my wagon. Wasn't no dragging each other down the street,
pushing none off. This was a work wagon. I won't

(01:25):
talk about money. Yeah, I woke up, got my wagon,
went out looking for pop bottle. You can turn in
pop bottles get two sixs. My goal was to get
fifty pop bottles if full lunch and fifty after. I
was trying to make two dollars a day. Full blown
horse might stopping ball a little bit, play a little
game at the playground. But I got to get to

(01:47):
this wagon. But I couldn't pull my pop bottles over
while I played. I had to drag them to the
store and turn them in because they're because they're taking popoff.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
When you were doing this because you had the date playing,
so you had to do the pop bottles. Did you
have to tell your family, your parents, especially point A.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
To point B where you were going?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Did they know where you were during.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, I had no wait with no cell phones.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
So you know I had free reign to hustle the
whole neighborhood. I was hustling. I was just walking, man.
I ain't had no hand, no card, I just walked.
Did have a bike, but my block. Yeah, but I
had to I couldn't ride the bike with wag. Okay
take wagon by myself, so some people knew me. Hey,

(02:35):
little Stevie, I got two pop bottles. Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Wow, so you were were early.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
They helped you.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, get your hustle on. Did you guys ever go
like to your friend's house. We would go to the
basement and play records and dance and all that. Do yes, yes,
yes to the neighbor.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
That was on the weekend, Yeah, we was. We didn't
have no basement store sharing in Texas.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh yeah we did.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I had a basement.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Uh huh. We were down there playing.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
We would we would be in the basement and imagine
that we had girls down there. What's going on now?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.