DOWN MEMORY LANE..FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN..

[pepper 34]

Some of us are too young to remember all of these Awww

Sit back, relax, listen, read, & smile. Kind of of reminds you to stop & smell the roses of life, and to give Thanks to God for Life and Memories!!!!

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 week 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 Doody 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.


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!!!!!!!

[/size][/size][/size] Edited July 3, 2008 by RussellandMarie

[pedroh 21]

no i don't remember

[nunyab 0]

lol... I do. I remember walking to school and back was the norm. Now kids are driven even if it's 3 blocks away.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I remember parts:

• having a 20" B&W tube-chassis Electrohome (in Calgary)
• drab uniforms (from a Mumbai Catholic school)
• services with pumped gas
• soda bottles with pop-off tops (no safety seal)
• cartoons with no connexion to toys

[Amby 490]

I don't remember

[Bootylicious!! 2]

I don't remember any of those things either. I'm not as old as I thought I was.

[Scott & Lai 12]

I remember about 90% of those....

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I can also remember a few other details:

• War as one of two games--the card-game described, also a version (maybe Canada-only) of dodgeball
• students could get punished for chewing gum--by having to put the chewed gum on their nose

[~krakatoa~ 27]

I remember some of them:

While I was into Nancy Drew, Hardey Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, my sister was giggling on Wuthering Heights, Mill and Boon..

Summers filled with bike rides, oh yeah!

[SteveLaura 0]

I'm sorry, but I hate this shite. In 30 years time, we'll have emails about "Do you remember when you had to use a mouse for your computer..?" and how things were much safer cos we only had to worry about handguns and drive-by shootings instead of the latest threat to humankind. Bah.