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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?
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?
1.
Candy cigarettes
2.
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
3.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
4.
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
5.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
6.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7.
Newsreels before the movie
8.
P.F. Fliers
9.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Hillcrest
4-601).
10.
Party lines
11.
Peashooters
12.
Howdy Doody
13.
45 RPM records
14.
Green Stamps
15.
Hi-Fi's
16.
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
17.
Mimeograph paper
18.
Beanie and Cecil
19.
Roller-skate keys
20.
Cork pop guns
21.
Drive ins
22.
Studebakers
23.
Washtub wringers
24.
The Fuller Brush Man
25.
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
26.
Tinkertoys
27.
Erector Sets
28.
The Fort Apache Play Set
29.
Lincoln Logs
30.
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
31.
5 cent packs of baseball cards –
32.
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
33.
Penny candy
34.
35 cent a gallon gasoline
35.
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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