Time Machine NOSTALGIA...

HOW'S THIS FOR NOSTALGIA?

All the girls had ugly royal blue gym uniforms?

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

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 it!

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...'?

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.

...as well as summers filled with bike rides, 

Hula Hoops, 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. 
Send this on to someone who can 

still remember Howdy Doody and The 

Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, 

The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, 

Trigger and Buttermilk.

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar 

water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass 

bottles. Coffee shops with Table Side 

Jukeboxes. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry 

chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with 

cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...

( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps.

Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do You Remember a Time When... 

Decisions were 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'?

Having a Weapon in School meant being 

caught with a Slingshot?

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!!!!!!! 

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break

from their 'Grown-Up' Life . . 

             I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!

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