CarolAnn
15-11-2005, 16:58
Can you remember when....
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a pure bred dog?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mum wore stockings 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 windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
Cereals had free toys 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 year if they failed. . .and they did?
When a 57 Holden was everyone's dream car?
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 footy with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Nancy Drew, Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five
Secret Seven, Biggles,
the Lone Ranger, Phantom,
Roy and Dale and Trigger.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games,
Hula Hoops, monkey bars, visits to the beach and "conversation" lollies.
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 dare...
Do you 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.
How many of these do you remember?
Lolly cigarettes
Pogo sticks, marbles,
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with aluminium tops
Newsreels before the movie
Sandshoes
Telephone numbers with letter prefixes....(ABD 601).
45 RPM records
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Valiants
Washtub wringers
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Houses made of cards
Mechano Sets
That awful pink slab of bubble gum(loved it!!)
Penny lollies
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
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?
Playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Share this with anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . . I double-dare-ya!
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a pure bred dog?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mum wore stockings 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 windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
Cereals had free toys 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 year if they failed. . .and they did?
When a 57 Holden was everyone's dream car?
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 footy with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Nancy Drew, Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five
Secret Seven, Biggles,
the Lone Ranger, Phantom,
Roy and Dale and Trigger.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games,
Hula Hoops, monkey bars, visits to the beach and "conversation" lollies.
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 dare...
Do you 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.
How many of these do you remember?
Lolly cigarettes
Pogo sticks, marbles,
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with aluminium tops
Newsreels before the movie
Sandshoes
Telephone numbers with letter prefixes....(ABD 601).
45 RPM records
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Valiants
Washtub wringers
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Houses made of cards
Mechano Sets
That awful pink slab of bubble gum(loved it!!)
Penny lollies
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
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?
Playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Share this with anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . . I double-dare-ya!