Do you remember??

[Mtnjim]

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..."

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.

Maybe you remember Nancy Drew, the

Hardy Boys, 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 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
and the best candy ever - Dots;

those drops of sugar stuck to a long
strip of paper

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond

4-601)
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
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 ins


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 White Castle burgers

5 cent packs

of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of "bubble
gum"
Penny candy

25 cent a gallon gasoline
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!


This message brought to you

by an old guy. If you aren't familiar with
most of the above, try Googling the unfamiliar terms - that should be


interesting! Or you might be able to learn something from someone over
50.

[belgareth]

Geeze! I'm old! Scored

100%

[Mtnjim]

Geeze! I'm old!

Scored 100%

We didn't have White Castle" here, so 99.9%

Oh ya 5 minutes for the Black &

White TV to warm up!

[belgareth]

Yup, remember the colorizing

filters they used to put over black and white screens to make it 'look' color? Or manual tuners, the ones with all

those nasty copper contacts? Or not getting a social security number until you got a job? There's a long list.



The first computer I ever saw had tubes and relays, you could walk inside it.