Good Morning All&#33;<br />
<br />
Storms came through central FL last night so now it will be only 95 today instead of 97.<br />
<br />
 BY THE WAY, DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?  I AM OLD ENOUGH TO . . . . <br />
<br />
 All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?<br />
<br />
 It took five minutes for the TV warm up?<br />
<br />
 Nearly everyone&#39;s Mom was at home when the kids got home from<br />
 school?<br />
<br />
 Nobody owned a purebred dog?<br />
<br />
 When a quarter was a decent allowance?<br />
<br />
 You&#39;d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?<br />
<br />
 Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?<br />
<br />
 All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had<br />
 their hair done every day and wore high heels?<br />
<br />
 You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,<br />
 without asking, all for free, every time?<br />
 And you didn&#39;t pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?<br />
<br />
 Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden<br />
 inside the box?<br />
<br />
 It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner<br />
 at a real restaurant with your parents?<br />
<br />
 They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and<br />
 they did?<br />
<br />
 When a 57 Chevy was everyone&#39;s dream car...to cruise,<br />
 peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went<br />
 steady?<br />
<br />
 No one ever asked where the car keys were<br />
 because they were always in the car,<br />
 in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?<br />
<br />
 Lying on your back in the grass with your friends<br />
 and saying things like, &quot;That cloud looks like a ..&quot;<br />
<br />
 and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules<br />
 of the game?<br />
<br />
 Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals<br />
 because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?<br />
<br />
 And with all our progress, don&#39;t you just wish, just once,<br />
 you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,<br />
 and share it with the children of today?<br />
<br />
 When being sent to the principal&#39;s office was nothing<br />
 compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?<br />
 Basically we were in fear for our lives,<br />
 but it wasn&#39;t because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.<br />
<br />
 Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat&#33;<br />
 But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.<br />
<br />
 Send this on to someone who can still remember<br />
 Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,<br />
 Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,<br />
 the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,<br />
 Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.<br />
<br />
 As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,<br />
 Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,<br />
 and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.<br />
 Didn&#39;t that feel good, just to go back and say, &quot;Yeah, I<br />
 remember that&quot;?<br />
<br />
 I am sharing this with you today<br />
 because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.<br />
 To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.<br />
 And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between<br />
 old enough to know better and too young to care.<br />
<br />
 How many of these do you remember?<br />
<br />
 Candy cigarettes<br />
 Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside<br />
 Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles<br />
 Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes<br />
 Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum<br />
 Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers<br />
 Newsreels before the movie<br />
 P.F. Fliers<br />
<br />
 Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).<br />
 Party lines<br />
<br />
 Peashooters<br />
 Howdy Dowdy<br />
 45 RPM records<br />
 Green Stamps<br />
 Hi-Fi&#39;s<br />
<br />
 Metal ice cubes trays with levers<br />
 Mimeograph paper<br />
 Beanie and Cecil<br />
 Roller-skate keys<br />
 Cork pop guns<br />
 Drive ins<br />
 Studebakers<br />
<br />
<br />
 Washtub wringers<br />
 The Fuller Brush Man<br />
 Reel-To-Reel tape recorders<br />
 Tinkertoys<br />
 Erector Sets<br />
 The Fort Apache Play Set<br />
 Lincoln Logs<br />
 15 cent McDonald hamburgers<br />
<br />
 5 cent packs of baseball cards -<br />
 with that awful pink slab of bubble gum<br />
<br />
 Penny candy<br />
<br />
 35 cent a gallon gasoline<br />
 Jiffy Pop popcorn<br />
<br />
 Do you remember a time when...<br />
<br />
 Decisions were made by going &quot;eeny-meeny-miney-moe&quot;?<br />
 Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, &quot;Do Over&#33;&quot;?<br />
 &quot;Race issue&quot; meant arguing about who ran the fastest?<br />
 Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?<br />
 It wasn&#39;t odd to have two or three &quot;Best Friends&quot;?<br />
<br />
 The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was<br />
 &quot;cooties&quot;?<br />
 Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?<br />
 A foot of snow was a dream come true?<br />
<br />
 Saturday morning cartoons weren&#39;t 30-minute commercials for<br />
 action figures?<br />
 &quot;Oly-oly-oxen-free&quot; made perfect sense?<br />
 Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for<br />
 giggles?<br />
<br />
 The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?<br />
 War was a card game?<br />
 Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a<br />
 motorcycle?<br />
 Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?<br />
 Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?<br />
<br />
 If you can remember most or all of these, then you have<br />
 lived&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;<br />
<br />
 Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from<br />
 their &quot;grown-up&quot; life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya&#33;