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 and 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?

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