Thinking of you................DO
YOU REMEMBER WHEN ....?
All the girls
had ugly gym uniforms?
It took 5
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 Doody
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 and visits to the pool,
and eating
Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
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 Doody
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!!!!!!!
