DO
YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly
gym uniforms?
It took five minutes
for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom
was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred
dog?
When a quarter was a
decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy
gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons
that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers
wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every
day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield
cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all
for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for
air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had
free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a
great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant
with your parents?
They threatened to keep
kids back a grade if they failed. . .and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was
everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber
or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where
the car keys were
because they were always
in the car,
in the ignition, and
the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in
the grass with your friends
and saying things like,
"That cloud looks like a ..."
and playing baseball
with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store
came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet
tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress,
don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back
in time and savor the slower pace,
and share it with the
children of today?
When being sent to the
principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate
that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in
fear for our lives,
but it wasn't because
of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents
were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because
their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone
who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy
Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Dowdy and the
Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The
Shadow Knows,
Nellie Bell, Roy and
Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
As well as summers filled
with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling
, 4 square, tetherball, and visits to the pool
and eating Kool-Aid
powder with sugar.
Hanging out!
Didn't that feel good,
just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with
you today
because it ended with
a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double
dog dare is, read on.
And remember that the
perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better
and too young to care.
How
many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles
with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that
dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside
jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and
Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in
glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the
movie
P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with
a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays
with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play
Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball
cards -
with that awful pink
slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do
you remember a time when...
Decisions were made
by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected
by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing
about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies
could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have
two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you
could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school
meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a
dream come true?
Saturday morning cartoons
weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free"
made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting
dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment
was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the
spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored
chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were
the ultimate weapon?
If
you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Pass
this on to anyone who may need a break from
their
"grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!
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