Youngsters read in disbelief.
Oldies see what we've lost
REMEMBER WHEN.
All the girls wore ugly gym slips.
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school
Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog, just mongrels.
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny
Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces
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. .
. And they did it!
When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car... And couples 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
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 head's study 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, rounders , Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating sherbert with liquorice > sticks. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yes, I remember that'?
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 Lone Ranger and Sgt Bilko
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Coca Cola in bottles.
Blackjacks and bubblegums.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops.
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 tiddlers 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 catapault?
War was a card game?
Cigarette 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 needs a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life
