Do you remember?

[Lorna]

REMEMBER WHEN:

All the girls had 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

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces.

All your 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. . . And they did it!

When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...

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 rounders/football/cricket/rugby 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 pupil 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, skipping, street football/cricket, Hula Hoops, skate hockey and visits to the pool, and 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. If you 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 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-fi'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 catapult?

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 may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.
I Double Dare You!

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Regards,
Lorna, Basil & Poppy
Great Danes are not substitute children. They are much more important than that!

[Jack]

LOVE this Lorna!!!! And yes....I remember them all!!!
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[Janis]

yeah lorna .....sadly i can remember them all with the exception of possible two.....certainly makes you reminisce....
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Cockapoo's...a little of this, a little of that..........
the perfect combination!

[John Thomson]

Couldn't help but smile as the memories came flooding back

John
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www.cumbernaulddogtraining.co.uk

[Louise13]

Well I am 33 and I would still kill for a minted Zephyr LOL
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