Rewind·Posted on Sep 12, 201435 Things '90s Black Girls WIll Always Miss About Summer In The CityBack in the days when I was young / I'm not a kid anymore, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again.by Driadonna RolandBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Shorts sets View this photo on Instagram 2. Sidewalk chalk... View this photo on Instagram 3. ...Used to draw Hopscotch, or lots of rainbow-colored hearts. View this photo on Instagram 4. Casually walking back and forth past the basketball courts. View this photo on Instagram 5. You probably didn't live that close to the beach, so you never "went swimming," but you did "get wet." Via open fire hydrants... View this photo on Instagram Or running through the sprinklers... View this photo on Instagram Or stylin' in your new swimsuit in your ~own~ pool. View this photo on Instagram 6. And if you did get wet, you tried everything to make sure your hair didn't. View this photo on Instagram 7. What you and all your friends were reading. (If you read anything that summer.) View this photo on Instagram 8. When the ice cream truck finally hit your block, being the first person to catch it and yell "Stop!" made you a hero. View this photo on Instagram 9. Marathon Double Dutch sessions. View this photo on Instagram 10. Cheesing with your new whip. View this photo on Instagram 11. Going to the candy lady's house with a whole dollar to stock up on sweets like this: View this photo on Instagram 12. One word: chews. View this photo on Instagram 13. These suckers were the stuff dreams were made of. View this photo on Instagram 14. And these suckers all looked like watermelon slices, though each was a different flavor of amAAAAzing. View this photo on Instagram 15. But sometimes you didn't even bother eating candy. You'd just put sugar in a bag and add dry Kool-Aid. View this photo on Instagram 16. When a quarter bag of chips actually cost a quarter. View this photo on Instagram 17. Also, you'd never go thirsty if you had a quarter. View this photo on Instagram 18. When your mom was braiding your hair, you were always squirming around like, Please hurry up so I can go play. View this photo on Instagram 19. After playing all day, you never made it back home with the same number of knockers or barrettes. View this photo on Instagram 20. Sometimes you wanted your hair straight, but it was too damn hot for this foolishness. View this photo on Instagram 21. But at least you didn't have to wear "tights" with your church dress. View this photo on Instagram 22. Getting your matching T-shirts for the family reunion was bomb. View this photo on Instagram 23. ...And learning that, gotdamn, you got a LOT of cousins! View this photo on Instagram 24. And you tried to learn the line dances all your aunts and uncles knew how to do. View this photo on Instagram 25. The weather was finally nice enough for backyard birthday parties. View this photo on Instagram 26. Where there was ALWAYS a MANDATORY dance contest. View this photo on Instagram 27. Also: BLock PartieZ! View this photo on Instagram View this photo on Instagram 28. You filled up on these because nothing else at the barbecue was ready on time. View this photo on Instagram 29. This is how you decided who was "it." View this photo on Instagram 30. You'll never forget chants like Bang, Bang Choo-Choo Train or Punchanella at the Zoo. View this video on YouTube And doing the "dances" that went along with them. Before there was twerking, there was "popping." 31. Or hand games like Miss Mary Mack, Slide, I Don't Wanna Go to Mexico, and Zing, Zing, Zing (Like a Washing Machine). View this video on YouTube Via YouTube "I don't wanna go to Mexico no more, more, more/ There's a big fat policeman at the door, door, door..." 32. When it came time for back-to-school shopping, you wouldn't DARE show up on the first day without a new pair of crispy all-white Air Force Ones... View this photo on Instagram ...and a fresh pair of wheat Timbs for the fall. View this photo on Instagram 33. When you visited grandma's house, for some reason it was always your job to remember where this was. View this photo on Instagram 34. And because she'd never turn on the air — no matter how hot it was — there were never enough of these high-tech, all-important coolant devices. View this photo on Instagram 35. And this is how grandma said good-bye after Sunday dinner. View this photo on Instagram