How's This For
Nostalgia?
All the girls had
ugly gym uniforms?
;)
It
took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
;)
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?
;)
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 it!
;)
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... '?
;) 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.
;) . .as well as
summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, 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.
Send this on
to someone who can still remember Howdy
Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The
Shadow knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and
Buttermilk.
;)
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 Table Side
Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing
gum.
;) ;) Home milk
delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
;)
Newsreels
before the movie.
;) Telephone numbers
with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.
;)
Peashooters.
;)
Hi-Fi's &
45 RPM records.
;)
78 RPM
records!
;)
Green
Stamps.
;)
Mimeograph
paper.
;) The Fort Apache
Play Set.
;) 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?
;) 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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