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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?
7
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 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...(HEmstead
7-1538 ).
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
link on to anyone who may need a break from their
"grown-up" life. I double-dog-dare
you!
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