heycods
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All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? <br /><br />It took five minutes for the TV warm up? <br /><br /><br />Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? <br /><br />Nobody owned a purebred dog? <br /><br /><br />When a quarter was a decent allowance? <br /><br />You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? <br /><br />Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? <br /><br />All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had <br />their hair done every day and wore high heels? <br /><br /><br />You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, <br />without asking, all for free, every time? <br />And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? <br /><br />Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? <br /><br />It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner <br />at a real restaurant with your parents? <br /><br />They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did? <br /><br /><br />When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, <br />peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? <br /><br /><br />No one ever asked where the car keys were <br />because they were always in the car, <br />in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? <br /><br /><br />Lying on your back in the grass with your friends <br />and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .."<br /> <br />and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? <br /><br />Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals <br />because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? <br /><br />And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, <br />you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,<br />and share it with the children of today? <br /> <br />When being sent to the principal's office was nothing <br />compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? <br />Basically we were in fear for our lives, <br />but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. <br /> <br />Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! <br />But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. <br /> <br />Send this on to someone who can still remember <br />Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, <br />Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, <br />the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, <br />Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. <br /><br /><br />As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, <br />Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, <br />and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. <br />Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? <br /><br /> <br /><br />I am sharing this with you today <br />because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. <br />To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. <br />And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between <br />old enough to know better and too young to care. <br /><br />How many of these do you remember?<br /><br />Candy cigarettes <br />Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside <br />Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles <br />Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes <br />Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum <br />Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers <br />Newsreels before the movie <br />P.F. Fliers <br /> <br /><br />Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). <br />Party lines <br /> <br /><br />Peashooters <br />Howdy Doody<br />45 RPM records <br />Green Stamps <br />Hi-Fi's <br /> <br />Metal ice cubes trays with levers <br />Mimeograph paper <br />Beanie and Cecil <br />Roller-skate keys <br />Cork pop guns <br />Drive ins <br />Studebakers<br /> <br /><br />Washtub wringers <br />The Fuller Brush Man <br />Reel-To-Reel tape recorders <br />Tinkertoys <br />Erector Sets <br />The Fort Apache Play Set <br />Lincoln Logs <br />15 cent McDonald hamburgers<br /> <br /><br />5 cent packs of baseball cards - <br />with that awful pink slab of bubble gum <br /><br />Penny candy <br /> <br />35 cent a gallon gasoline <br />Jiffy Pop popcorn <br /><br />Do you remember a time when... <br /> <br />Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? <br />Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? <br />"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? <br />Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? <br />It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? <br /><br />The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? <br />Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? <br />A foot of snow was a dream come true? <br /><br />Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? <br />"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? <br />Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? <br /> <br />The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? <br />War was a card game? <br />Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? <br />Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? <br />Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? <br /><br />If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! <br /> <br />Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from <br />their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya! <br /><br />I believe my mind is going, I cant remember seeing this exact one. 
