Remember
When..?
OK, so some of you might have been too young to remember
REMEMBER....
When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the
bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum.
And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we danced to a juke box
later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and the boys wore
suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till 12
p.m.
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . . to cruise, peel out,
lay
rubber and watch drag races, and people went steady and girls wore a
class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with
pastel
frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.
And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were
always
in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And
you got in
big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no
one ever
had a key.
Remember lying on your back on 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. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning
experience-it was a game.
Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and
hermetic seals 'cause 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 the 80's and 90's...
So send this site onto someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The
Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The
Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger
and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday
morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land,
baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid
powder with sugar.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to
the fate that awaited a misbehaving 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 all survived because their love was greater
than
the threat.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember
that!
And was it really that long ago?
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