Nostalgia...Remember When?

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This should bring back some old memories....
Remember When...?

• Girls had to wear those ugly gym suits?
• 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, or the lake, because no one had air conditioning and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
• Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
• 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.
• Can you still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell Roy Rogers,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 and for 5cents!
• 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!
• S & H 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'?
• Playing all day with Paper Dolls?
• Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
• Or "getting in trouble" with the teacher meant you got chewing gum or you were wearing cleats on your shoes.
• Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
• 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
• Playing "Red Rover" or "Pom Pom Poleaway" at recess?
• 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 and Bottle Caps 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 page on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life
• I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!

Observations On Growing Older...

• Your Kids are becoming you...and you don't like them...but your grandchildren are perfect!
• Going Out is good...Coming Home is better!
• When People say "You Look Great" and then they add "For Your Age!"
• When You needed the discount, you paid full Price. Now You get discounts on everything! Movies, Hotels, Flights, but you're too tired to use them.
• You Forget names ....But it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!!
• The 5 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.
• Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember.
• The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore.
• Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than he does in bed. It's called his "pre-sleep".
• Remember when your mother said, "Wear clean underwear in case you 'GET' in an Accident"? Now you bring clean underwear in case you 'HAVE' an Accident!
• You used to say, "I hope my kids 'GET' married... Now, "I hope they 'STAY' married!"
• You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF" Switch..~When GOOGLE, Ipod, email, modem ...were unheard of, and a mouse was something that made you climb on a table.
• You tend to use more 4 letter words ..."what?"..."when?"...
• Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 P.M. Next week it will be 8:30 P.M.
• You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've already read it.
• What used to be freckles are now liver spots.
• Everybody Whispers.
• Now that your husband has retired ...You'd give anything if he'd find a job!
• You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet ...2 of which you will never wear.