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Remember when......?
Turn on your sound and
remember . . . You'll enjoy this one. OK, so some
of you might have
been too young to remember . . . . enjoy the music
anyway.
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...
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!
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