REMEMBER WHEN:

All the girls had ugly school uniforms

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up

 

 

 

Nearly everyone's Mum was home when the kids got home from school

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nobody owned a purebred dog

 

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny

 

Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces

 

All 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..

 

Mum cooked every night and nearly every meal was meat and

3 Veg with a Roast on Sunday.

 

They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed

the school year. . . And they did!

 

When an FC Holden was everyone's dream car...

 

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 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 headmaster's office was nothing

compared to the fate that awaited you 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, cricket, Hula Hoops,

skating and visits to the pool, and bonfire nights with REAL

firecrackers.

 

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. To 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.

 

Choo Choo Bars and Fags. (That word had no other meaning then.)

  

 

Home milk delivery before glass bottles (with tinfoil tops )

when the milkman filled your Billy.

 

LP'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 tadpoles 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 shangai?

 

Playing war with pretend guns but "real" wooden swords.

 

Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

 

Taking drugs meant being given half of one of mum's

Bex tablets for a headache.

 

Lighting a whole row of Tom Thumbs and throwing them

at your mate's feet, was 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.