How's
This For Nostalgia?
All
the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis
shoes not $200 Nike's!
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.
And
our summers were 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 , Royand
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...
 
Telephone
numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon
2-601). Party lines...
Peashooters...
Hi-If'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...
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-in-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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