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... '?
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? 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
HardyBoys,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 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 table side 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 much less 78 RPM's???
Green
Stamps.
Mimeograph
paper. The
Fort Apache Play Set.
Do you
remember a time when...
Decisions
were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? Mistake
s 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?
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!
