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 …

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 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

Telephone numbers with a word prefix….(Temple
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 packs of baseball cards -

with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

35 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 . . .

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