this will put a FEW years on you...
and give you some more of that wisdom colored
hair.

>
> a.. all the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
>
> b.. it took five minutes for the TV warm up?
>
> c.. nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the
kids got home from school?
>
> d.. nobody owned a purebred dog?
>
> e.. when a quarter was a decent allowance?
>
> f.. you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a
penny?
>
> g. your Mom wore nylons that came in two
pieces?
>
> h.. all your male teachers wore neckties and
female teachers had their
hair done every day and wore high heels?
>
> i.. 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?
>
> j.. laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes
or towels hidden inside the
box?
>
> k.. it was considered a great privilege to be
taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents?
>
> l.. they threatened to keep kids back a grade
if they failed . . .and they
did?
>
> m.. when a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream
car...to cruise, peel out, lay
rubber or watch submarine races, and people went
steady?
>
> n.. 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?
>
> o.. 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?
>
> p.. stuff from the store came without safety
caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect
stranger?
>
> q.. 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?
>
> r.. 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,
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?
>
> a.. Candy cigarettes
>
> b.. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar
water inside
>
> c.. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass
bottles
>
> d.. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes >
>
> e.. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
>
> f.. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
cardboard stoppers
>
> g.. Party lines
>
> h.. Newsreels before the movie
>
> i.. P.F. Fliers
>
> j.. Telephone numbers with a word
prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
>
> k.. Peashooters
>
> l.. Howdy Dowdy
>
> m.. 45 RPM records
>
> n.. Green Stamps
>
> o.. Hi-Fi's
>
> p.. Metal ice cubes trays with levers
>
> q.. Mimeograph paper
>
> r.. Beanie and Cecil
>
> s.. Roller-skate keys
>
> t.. Cork pop guns
>
> u.. Drive ins
>
> v.. Studebakers
>
> w.. Washtub wringers
>
> x.. The Fuller Brush Man
>
> y.. Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
>
> z.. 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...........
>
> a.. Decisions were made by going
"eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
>
> b.. Mistakes were corrected by simply
exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
>
> c.. "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran
the fastest?
>
> d.. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy
an entire evening?
>
> e.. It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best
Friends"?
>
> f.. The worst thing you could catch from the
opposite sex was
> "cooties"?
>
> g.. Having a weapon in school meant being
caught with a slingshot?
>
> h.. A foot of snow was a dream come true?
>
> i.. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute
commercials for action
figures?
>
> j.. "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
>
> k.. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling
down was cause for
giggles?
>
> l.. The worst embarrassment was being picked
last for a team?
>
> m.. War was a card game?
>
> n.. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed
any bike into a motorcycle?
>
> o.. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable
aspirin?
>
> p.. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
>
q..a church key.. is a bottle opener?

> 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!