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 .....
So send this on to someone who can
still 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!
And was it really that long ago?
