Do you remember when ...All
the girls had ugly gym
slips
 It took five minutes for the TV to warm up  Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school  Nobody
owned a thoroughbred
dog
 When
3d was a decent
allowance
 You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny  Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces  All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels  You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time and
you didn't pay for air, And, you got trading stamps
to boot
 Washing Powder 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 children back a year if they failed. . and they did it!  When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car... 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... '  Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game  Bottles came from the corner shop 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 wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.  When being sent to the head's study 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. As
well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket,
Hula Hoops, skate hockey and visits to the pool, and
eating lemonade powder or liquorice
sticks.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yes, I remember that'?  I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. Send this on to someone who can still remember Mr Pastry, 6.5 Special, The Army Game , Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Emergency Ward 10, the Lone Ranger, Hancock's Half hour, Trigger and Sgt Bilko  How Many Of These Do You Remember? Sweet cigarettes  Coca Cola in bottles.  You're never alone with a Strand.  Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.  Blackjacks and bubblegums.   Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops.  Newsreels before the film. Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Mayfair 3489). Party lines.  Peashooters.  Andy Pandy.  Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.  78 RPM records!  Green Shield Stamps.  Adding Machines.  Scalextric.  Do You Remember a Time When.. Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching tiddlers could happily occupy an entire day?  It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?  The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'chickenpox'?  Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapault?  Saturday morning television wasn't 30-minute commercials for action figures?  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?  Cigarette 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!!!!!!!
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