Do children still..
-wear gum boots during the rainy season?
-exchange trump cards/free stickers with friends?
-wear PT shoes to school on Fridays?
-request their teachers to give them a ‘games’ period?
-wait like crazy for the annual school fete?
-take Milton water bottles to school?
-finish their lunches during the periods so that they have maximum time to play in the break?
-like other children’s lunches more than their own?
-exchange Tintin and Asterix comic books with friends?
-read Femina Home Truths and laugh about it?
-hide their report cards from their Dads and get them signed by their moms while the school bus is honking the next morning?
-discuss with friends the movie due to be played on the coming Friday night on DD/Zee TV?
-prefer outdoor games to dull computer games?
-wear civil clothes to school on birthdays?
-force their parents to rent the latest video cassettes for the coming weekend?
-are crazy about hot wheels cars?
-love going to their grandparents’ during their vacations?
-enjoy going to school for the Republic Day parade?
-have house wars with the other house students (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue or Shivaji, Tagore, Ashoka, Raman)?
-save pocket money to buy their favourite comic books?
-feel overjoyed when the mom lets them keep the change from a shopping trip?
-save up the loudest fire crackers for late night on Diwali?
-squabble with their friends over being the cricket/football team captain?
-feel proud to be one of those towards the end of the class line in the morning assembly?
-never sleep in the afternoons rather play around in the kitchen garden?
-crave for the Sunday brunch that mom would cook at home?
-maintain a homework copy and a classwork copy of each subject notebook?
Ah! those were the days.
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