TRY AN REMEMBER! DO YOU REMEMBER?

a.. all the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

b.. it took five minutes for the TV to 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 aa.. Erector Sets ab.. The Fort Apache Play Set ac..Lincoln
Logs ad.. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers ae.. 5 cent packs of baseball
cards..........with that awful pink slab of bubble gum af..Penny candy ag..
35 cent a gallon gasoline ah.. 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?

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!