I know this has been around before but it still brings back memories
SOME OF YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER THESE
Do You Remember?
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 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 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 . . .