Time for a
bit of reminiscing.... hope you enjoy.
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All the
girls had ugly gym slips
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
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..
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 the
school
When
a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...
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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
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
When being
sent to the headmasters 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.
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As well as
summers filled with bike rides, cricket, Hula Hoops,
skating and
visits to the pool, eating lemonade powder or liquorice
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.
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Send this
on to someone who can still remember the Lone Ranger and Sgt
Bilko
How Many Of
These Do You Remember?
Blackjacks
and bubble gums.
Home milk
delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops
Hi-If's &
45 RPM records.
Adding
Machines.
Scalextric.
Do You
Remember a Time When..
Decisions were made by going 'Eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
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'Race
issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
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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 slingshot ?
Cigarette
cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking
drugs meant orange - flavoured chewable aspirin?
Water
balloons were the ultimate weapon?
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If you can
remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived DURING A
Pass this
on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.
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