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 day and wore high
heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without
asking,
all for free, every time?
And you di dn’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, bas eball 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.
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

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

Newsreels before the movie

P.F. Fliers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix…(Raymond 4-601).

Party lines

Peashooters

Howdy Doody

45 RPM records

Green Stamps

Hi-Fi’s

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Mimeograph paper

Beanie and Cecil

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns

Drive ins

Studebakers

Washtub wringers

The Fuller Brush Man

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

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…

Decisions we re 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”?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was “cooties”?

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

A foot of snow was a dream come true?

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?

Were water balloons 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.