HOW'S THIS FOR NOSTALGIA?

 *It took three minutes for the TV to warm up.

 *Nobody owned a purebred dog.

*When a quarter was a decent allowance, and made with real silver!*

*You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. Made with real copper! Looking to see if it was a 1943 steel penny!*

*Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.*

*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.*    

*Not to mention Cracker Jacks!*

*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). Or, some of us remember when there were just 4 numbers with no word prefix at all. And nearly everyone had a party line.*

*Peashooters.*

*Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.*

*78 RPM records!*

*S&H 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!!!!!!!