I thought some of us might take a trip down memory lane. For the good times......
CAN YOU 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?
Santiago |
