Do
You Remember???
Sit
back, relax, listen, read, & smile. Kind of reminds you to stop & smell
the roses of life, and to give thanks to God for life and memories.
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys
(Keds & PF FLyers), and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym?"
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Being sent to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV?
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, and another quarter a huge bonus?
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
- 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!!!!!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!
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