> > > > 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 > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 > > > > Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for > giggles? > > > > > 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 the Lone Ranger and > Sgt Bilko > > > > How Many Of These Do You Remember? > > > Coca Cola in bottles. > > > > > > Blackjacks and bubblegums. > > > > > > Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops. > > > > > > Hi-If's & 45 RPM records. > > > > > 78 RPM records! > > > > > > > > Adding Machines. > > > > Sc alex tric. > > > > > > 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? > > > > 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!!!!!!! > > Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' > Life. > > I Double DareYou! > > > > >
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