"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
news:tc3ru395j2othu94jaqohfbk78ui2fs4bh@4ax.com:
>
> DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
>
> * All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
>
> * It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
> * Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from
> school?
> * Nobody owned a purebred dog?
> * When a quarter was a decent allowance?
> * You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
> * Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
> * All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
> their hair done every day and wore high heels?
> * 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?
> * It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
> at a real restaurant with your parents?
> they did?
> * 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
> 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?
>
> 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, 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.
>
> Can you remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy
> Doody and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
> Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. As well as
> summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling
> 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"?
>
> How many of these do you remember?
>
> * Candy cigarettes
> * Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
> * Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
> * Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> * Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> * Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> * Newsreels before the movie
> * P.F. Fliers
> * Telephone numbers with a word prefix... (Raymond 4-601).
> * Party lines
> * Peashooters
> * Howdy Doody
> * 45 RPM records
> * Green Stamps
> * Hi-Fi's
> * Metal ice cubes trays with levers
> * Mimeograph paper
> * Beanie and Cecil
> * Roller-skate keys
> * Cork pop guns
> * Drive ins
> * Studebakers
> * Washtub wringers
> * The Fuller Brush Man
> * Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
> * Tinkertoys
> * Erector Sets
> * The Fort Apache Play Set
> * Lincoln Logs
> * 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
> * 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of
> bubble gum
> * Penny candy
> * 35 cent a gallon gasoline
> * Jiffy Pop popcorn
>
> 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"?
> * The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
> "cooties"?
> * Having a weapon in school meant 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 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?
>
Yep. Sure do. And what a better state the world was in.
Mercury.
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