Nostalgia...............
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:13 pm
It seems only the other day....
How's This For Nostalgia?
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When 3d (thrupence) was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? (old one)
Your Mum wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and fuel pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . . and they did it!
When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...to cruise, lay rubber or watch the girls... and people went steady?
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?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
Playing cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came 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 just 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 head teacher's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the 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 survived because their love was greater than the threat.
. . .as well as summers filled with bike rides, hula hoops, visits to the lido, sherbert dips, lemonade powder.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Sweet cigarettes
Coke in bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjacks and bubblegums .
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Mayfair 3489). Party lines.
Peashooters.
Andy Pandy.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Shield Stamps.
Comptometers.
Scalextric.
Do You Remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miny-moe'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching tiddlers 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 catapult?
Saturday morning television wasn't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange - flavoured chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
I HAVE LIVED!!!!!!!!
How's This For Nostalgia?
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When 3d (thrupence) was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? (old one)
Your Mum wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and fuel pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . . and they did it!
When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...to cruise, lay rubber or watch the girls... and people went steady?
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?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
Playing cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came 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 just 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 head teacher's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the 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 survived because their love was greater than the threat.
. . .as well as summers filled with bike rides, hula hoops, visits to the lido, sherbert dips, lemonade powder.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Sweet cigarettes
Coke in bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjacks and bubblegums .
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Mayfair 3489). Party lines.
Peashooters.
Andy Pandy.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Shield Stamps.
Comptometers.
Scalextric.
Do You Remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miny-moe'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching tiddlers 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 catapult?
Saturday morning television wasn't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange - flavoured chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
I HAVE LIVED!!!!!!!!
