Eileen Means=this is what she remembers: Do you remember these??
All girls had ugly gym uniforms,.. it took 5
minutes for the TV to warm up, ..nearly everyone's mom was home when the kids
got home from school,.. nobody owned a purebred dog,.. when a quarter was a
decent allowance, ..when you would reach into a muddy gutter for a penny, ..when
your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces,.. when all your male teachers wore
neckties and your female teachers had their hair done everday, wore dresses and
high heels, ..you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked and gas pumped
without asking, all for free everytime you bought gas, and, you got trading
stamps to boot? ..laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden in
every box? ..(Also dishes in boxes of oatmeal), ..It was considered a great
privilege to be taken out to dinner in a real restaurant by your parents?. They
threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed..and they did?.. when a "57
Chevy was everyone's dream car..cruise..to peel out..to lay rubber..to watch
submarines..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 door were never
locked?...lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying " that
cloud looks like..and, playing baseball with your friends with no adults to help
the 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 wish..just once.. that you
could slip back in time..savor the slower pace..and share it with the children
of today? ...Do you remember..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 and it wasn't from 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. Do you remember..summers were
filled with bike rides, baseball games, bowling, and visits to the pool?
..Eating koolaid powder with sugar? Didn't it feel good just to go back and say
"Yeah, I remember that!" Eileen goes on to say that she is sharing this because
it ends with a "double-dog dare!"
MORE: Do you remember???...Candy cigarettes, wax
coke shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside..soda pop machines that
dispensed glass bottles..coffee shops that had tableside jukeboxes..Blackjack,
Clove and Teaberry chewing gum..home milk delivery of glass bottles with
cardboard stoppers..Party lines..newsreels before the
movie..I.P.F.Fliers..telephone numbers with a word prefix...pea shooters..howdy
dowdy..45rpm records (I remember the 78s)! Green stamps, Hi-Fi's...metal ice cube
trays with levers...mimeograph paper..beanie and cecil..roller skate keys..cork
pop guns..Drive-ins..Studebakers..wash tub ringers..Fuller Brush
man...tinkertoys..erector sets.. The fort apache play set..lincoln logs, 15 cent
McDonald's hamburgers..5cent pack of baseball cards with that awful pink slab of
bubble gum..penny candy..35cent per gallon gasoline (I remember living in
Houston, TX where we paid 19 cents per gallon and received black gold stamps
too)...Jiffy-pop popcorn..decisions were made by saying..enny- meeny- miny-
moe..mistakes were corrected by simply saying "do over"...catching fireflys
could occupy an entire evening...it wasn't odd to have two or three "best
friends"..race issue mean't who could run the fastest...the worst thing you
could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"...having a weapon in school was
being caught with a slingshot...a foot of snow was a "dream come true"..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 a
cause for the 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 mean't orange flavored chewable aspirin..water
balloons were the perfect weapon..if you can remember most of these, then you
have lived!" Fun stuff Eileen!!!!!! Eileen says to pass this along to anyone who
may need a break from their "grown-up" life. I
double-dog-dare-ya!!!!!!!!!!!!HA!
Now, folks, WHAT DO YOU
REMEMBER?????????
