Remember when......?
Turn on your sound and remember. . . .
You'll enjoy this one. OK, so some of you might have been too young to remember
. . . . enjoy the music anyway.
REMEMBER....
When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms,
flunk a test or chew gum. And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we
danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and
the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till 12 p.m.
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . . to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch
drag races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped
dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.
And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the
ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally
locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key.
Remember lying on your back on 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. Back then,
baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game.
Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause 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 the 80's and 90's...
So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel &
Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie
Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a real mower on
Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball
games, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a
misbehaving 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 all survived because
their love was greater than the threat.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
And was it really that long ago?