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DO YOU
REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the
girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took
five minutes for the TV to 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....(Peach 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 inns
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
19
cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop
popcorn
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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"?
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!!!!!!!
Weren't
they great times?!
Pass this
on to anyone who may need a break from
their
"grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!
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