I Remember when I was a Boy

[Tank]

I remember when I was 5 and the old man walked out on us. I remember 2 meals a day being normal , sasauges and potatoes being a feast for several years before mum could get a job.
I remember my best mate dying from Septicaemia and being taken aside by the neighbour and being told that blokes didn't cry that's what the women did and I should be strong for his mother and family.
Best of all I remember getting my 72 Kingswood with the big 186 and the 3 on the tree and being given the talk about big powerful cars and speed , the disapproving look of one girls parents who wouldn't let me take their daughter out in it and I also remember cruising with my wife in it way back when we only cared about the then and now and finding somewhere to go
I remember life as kid being hard but fun and it built character and made you into someone.
I now work with teenagers every week and feel for what they don't know they are missing out on and the way as a society we are ruining them