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It's a story of memories which I think everyone would have it
I grew up in Bandra, Mumbai better known as the Queen of the suburbs ๐
During a time when everyone treated each other like Family,
Every female/male that came to your house was your aunty/uncle even if they were no relation ๐ซ
We went to summer club and played throw ball and carrom, hockey, soccer, basketball, etc.
We came straight home from school and changed and then out to play all evening .
If you had siblings you wore their hand me downs
We didn't eat fast food๐๐....
We sometimes ate bhel puri and dosas from street carts and got ice slushies or Gola from a cart down the road if ya mum was not looking.
Otherwise Home made kalakhatta/ rasna.
We played cricket or rounders if we ran out of space ๐
Robbers or thieves
Football ๐ ,
Hide and Seek๐,
Kabaddi , Gili danda and knock door run ๐๐
Kiti Kiti gotya,many would remember this game jumping over the backs
7 bricks
Hockey ๐
There was no bottled water๐ถ, we would share the same bottle after giving it a wipe with our mucky sleeves,
We had no kids tv channels In fact we had no ๐บ .
Rode our hired bikes ๐ฒ for hours ๐ฐ yes we could hire bikes by the hour or half day or full day . There was no such thing as a mobile phone or any other electronic device or in fact even a telephone ๐ต.
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. Your friends always had Your back . and if someone had a fight, that's what it was...a fist fight๐.
Kids didn't have guns๐ซ or knives๐ช.
The street lights ๐กwere always your curfew or until your mum shouted out the window.
School was mandatory, but we loved the monsoons when it flooded and we could not go to school and spent hours playing in the rain making paper boats to sail them through the gutters โ๐ or catch guppies.
We watched our mouths around our elders๐ด๐ตbecause we knew we'd get a crack, belt or some shoe , slipper ๐๐ ... everybody listened to English songs on the the same radio station, so walking from home to school, youโd hear the same song playing in most homes as you walked along . Saturday Date was popular with late nights drinking sitting over someoneโs wall,sleepover at friends place n make prank calls overnight and pick of the Pops on Wednesday nights. , despite us moving to different parts of the globe, thanks to social media and face book ,we still keep in touch with childhood friends and as a community we share good and bad news and itโs amazing that our Bandra community can still support each other . If you did something wrong your parents knew about it before you got home . I was lucky to grow up in a beautiful community .
Re-post if you're proud ๐๐ that you came from a close knit community ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ซand you will never forget where you came from! .๐๐๐๐