I double-dog-dare-ya!

kassi59 · #1 06-15-2006, 11:32 AM

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 threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and 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 things like, "That cloud looks like a ."

and 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.

Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Dowdy 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"?

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.

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 Dowdy
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?

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-dog-dare-ya!

nick1346 · #2 06-15-2006, 11:47 AM

And for the English people out there just think Hovis Tv Ads!

Ah kate it does make you think of better times, one that was missed of:

Kids being able to kick a ball around in the street without being run over by some spoiler enhanced moron mobile!

kassi59 · #3 06-15-2006, 12:20 PM

Yes Nick - the good ole days...with the world in such a way, I like to think about these things!...smiles

nick1346 · #4 06-15-2006, 12:36 PM

When I was six I always used to have my trusty ***** Army pen knife for sharping sticks and opening cans. Back then we all had them and no one used to bat an eyelid. Now my lad is six and I've given him his first ***** army knife, trouble is it's now illeagal for him to carry it and if he were caught with it in the street, Dad would get a visit from the boys in blue and probably put under the supervision of social services. Where is the innocence?

Is it just me or is really quite here today kate?

kassi59 · #5 06-15-2006, 12:43 PM

Seems quiet..give it time!..lol just about the time I finish up, everyone is coming on!..lol..time difference I guess...
I understand more than you know about the changing world. I have two boys that are now 26 and 21(ish)..and I would never have a child today! ever!
I was at the begining of the craziness - and the first call I recieved from the elementary school principle - well I blew!..lol..She said I needed to come in and have a talk..I told her that all was well on my end so she needed to come to me with her issues!..lol..she did..and I told her in no uncertain terms that I was not getting involved with the insanity that was just begining..and If just once I heard that they wont "allow" ME to spank my child then I was taking them both out and doing THIER job myself!...Well we got along just famously after that and we both enjoyed our coffee and cake and had a wonderful chat!..lol...Today however Id be locked up and my children a ward of the state!...

Andy128 · #6 06-15-2006, 12:55 PM

Good morning Kate,

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Brought back a lot of good memories of simpler times.

Have a good day.

Man- do I miss those candy cigaretts that when you blew into them the candy powder blew out making it appear that you were actually smoking. Or the older ones that had the red tip to simulate that it was actually lit!

Funny!

Cheers,

Andy

kassi59 · #7 06-15-2006, 12:57 PM

Oh yea Andy! and they tasted simply awful!...the only thing 'cool' about it was it was a cig..lol....they were definately not made for taste!...lol

nick1346 · #8 06-15-2006, 01:00 PM

Haha! Teachers can be a bit cloud cuckoo land sometimes!
I'm pointing my lad in the direction of the Scouts, army cadets and the like, a bit of roughing up.

allstarfaces · #9 06-15-2006, 01:05 PM

im amazed at how similar your way of life and the same sort of things you said are very relavent to me in england mmmm at first i couldnt remeber where you were from i thought you were in england wow weird considering we seem so differant these days mm makes you think doesnt it how your culture has progresed to the way ours, has thanks for the great memories kate cheers

Andy128 · #10 06-15-2006, 01:12 PM

kate-

Yes they were awful!!!! Hehe! But you were sure cool. Especially when I rolled the carton up in my t-shirt sleeve like my pop.

Andy

kassi59 · #11 06-15-2006, 02:43 PM

No Allstar Im in America. and a very rural area! And I too forget that Im 'sitting' with people sooooo far away!...lol..funny stuff the internet! kinda makes ya feel like you really could go get them a coffee!..lol
and yes andy, we all did that!...well I didnt roll them in my shirt..lol..but I did see the guys doing that..lol...
yes Nick - parents jobs are much harder today than it used to be...and I dont honestly see what is changing for the better!...maybe I need "time out"...lol......

SChajin · #12 06-15-2006, 03:54 PM

I remember these, my son is now 35 and he went military. He is a good boy with a wife and his own small company.

Girlonthehill · #13 06-15-2006, 03:59 PM

When popping tar bubbles on hot days was a cool way to pass time and knock-a-door-run was an innocent game that didn't leave folk quivering behind their doors. Also, when 'playing out' meant taking off, after breakfast, for a fun-packed day of adventure and not getting home until tea-time! We used to walk for miles and miles - exploring our surroundings!

SChajin · #14 06-15-2006, 04:15 PM

I had to be home before the street lights came on.

Girlonthehill · #15 06-15-2006, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SChajin

I had to be home before the street lights came on.

LMAO Yes, Sharon! That was one of out 'rules' too and when we did get home we'd drink gallons of water - from the tap (faucet to you guys)! LOL A real treat was diluted fruit cordial poured into old cups and frozen to make home-made jubblees. LOL

SChajin · #16 06-15-2006, 04:38 PM

I remember drinking from the hose outside. It tasted like plastic and we didn't care.

allstarfaces · #17 06-15-2006, 05:02 PM

lmao i remember................no doesnt matter better not lol my neighbours mite be reading this

kassi59 · #18 06-15-2006, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by SChajin

I remember drinking from the hose outside. It tasted like plastic and we didn't care.

Oh yea, Ive done that and wow what a treat as we were so thirsty from playing hard that we didnt care of the taste!....lol...but dont let your parents catch ya!.....lol
And yes be out all day and nobody was concerned...it was after dark, and I also recall what that meant...lol...I told my mom that dark was different for her because she was inside a lit house and being outside being accustom to the day/night change that for me it was still light!...she bought it! hahaha!