REMEMBER  WHEN:
All the girls had ugly gym  slips


It  took five minutes for the TV to warm  up

Nearly everyone's Mum was home when the kids got home from school

Nobody owned a purebred dog

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny

Your mother wore nylons that came in two pieces

All 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 the school year. . . And they did!

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 headmasters office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you 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, skating and visits to the pool, 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 Roy Rogers & ale Evans, The Lone Ranger and Sgt Bilko

How Many Of These Do You Remember?

Coca Cola in bottles. And how about the family size Coke.

Blackjacks and bubble gums.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops Before the tin foil there was the round cardboard bottle top with thick cream under it. Milk was delivered in white two wheeled pull carts.

Hi-If's  & 45 RPM records.

78  RPM records!

Adding Machines.

Scalextric.

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 tadpoles 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 slingshot?

War was a card game?

Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavoured chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have  Lived DURING A GOOD TIME!!!!!!!