> DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? > > All the girls had ugly grey uniforms or for games > would tuck their skirts into their gym knickers? > > 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 pure-bred dog? > > When a penny 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 windscreen cleaned, tyre pressures > and oil checked, and your petrol pumped, > without asking, all for free, every time? > And you didn't pay for air? > > And, you even got trading stamps to boot? or > an aluminum World Cup team coin or Tiger's tale. > > 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 class > if they failed. . . and they did? > > When a Ford Popular was everyone's dream car... > to cruise for girls in? > > 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 football 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 Headmasters office > was nothing compared to the fate that awaited > you at home? Basically we were in constant fear > for our lives, > > but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, > drugs, gangs, mobile muggers, etc. > > Our parents and grandparents were a much > bigger threat! > > But we survived because their love was > greater than the threat. > > > Laurel and Hardy, Arthur Heap, Dixon of Dock Green > Z-Cars, the Army Game, Rag Trade and Emergency Ward > ten, the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers and Trigger > > As well as summers filled with bike rides, > Swimming bathes and rivers, visits to the park > and eating Rhubarb dipped in sugar. > Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, > "Yeah, I remember that"? > > > > 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? > > Telephone numbers and trunk lines you asked the > operator for, Press Button "B" call Boxes, and > if you had a phone at home, Party lines on which > you could hear next door's conversations? > > Peashooters > 45 RPM records > Green Stamps > Hi-Fi's > > Metal ice cubes trays with levers > > Metal Toffee trays with Hammers > > Roller-skate keys > > Washtub wringers > Reel-To-Reel tape recorders > Erector Sets --more usefull now? > Penny candy > Four and six a gallon for petrol > > Do you remember a time when... > > Decisions were made by simply going > "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? > > Mistakes were corrected by simply > exclaiming, "Do Over!"? > > "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran > the fastest? > > Catching the glow-worms 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 "Cold sores"? > > Having a weapon in school meant being > caught with a caterpult > > A foot of snow was a dream come true? > > Saturday morning cartoons weren'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 and a Clothespeg, in the > spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? > > Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable > aspirin? > > Water balloons or folder paper cubes full of water > were "the" ultimate weapon? > > If you can remember most or all of these, > then you have lived!!!!!!!
David in Ballarat
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