Remember when?

[T.C.]

REMEMBER WHEN

All the girls had ugly gym slips

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 thoroughbred dog

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny

Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces

All your 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. . . And they did it!


When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...
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

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game

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 of today.

When being sent to the head's study 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, cricket, Hula Hoops, skate hockey and visits to the pool, and eating lemonade powder or liquorice sticks.
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.

Send this on to someone who can still remember the Lone Ranger and Sgt Bilko

How Many Of These Do You Remember?

Coca Cola in bottles.

Blackjacks and bubblegums.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops.

Hi-If's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Adding Machines.

Scalextric.


Do You Remember a Time When..

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-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 catapault?

War was a card game?

Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?


If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.

I Double DareYou!

[Samray]

Yep, but I remember glass milk bottles with cardboard tops!

[D-Rider]

.... and when I read ....

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 of today.

..... I was expecting to read on ....

"Then visit the Isle of Wight with it's sandy beaches and slower pace of life. Immerse yourself in a place that's forever yesteryear"




.... and yes, I do remember those days ....

[kneescratch]

Yep remember those well.

As for coca cola in glass bottles also remember getting a deposit refund on R.Whites lemonade bottles too.

And not to forget the "Party Seven" now that was a can of beer. :)




Gary

[BikerGran]

Yep, but I remember glass milk bottles with cardboard tops!

You're not alone Sam!

[T.C.]

Yep remember those well.

As for coca cola in glass bottles also remember getting a deposit refund on R.Whites lemonade bottles too.

I remember getting tuppence (old money) for returning empty Corona bottles. They used to produce the best cream soda going, and their orangeade and cherryade weren't bad either

[D-Rider]

Yep remember those well.

As for coca cola in glass bottles also remember getting a deposit refund on R.Whites lemonade bottles too.

I remember getting tuppence (old money) for returning empty Corona bottles. They used to produce the best cream soda going, and their orangeade and cherryade weren't bad either

Yep - we had a bottle of Corona cream soda every week - I loved the stuff

[BikerGran]

Gosh, you were posh! I remember seeing the Corona man delivering next door and going indoors to nag my mum - but it didn't do any good!

[Samray]

Yep remember those well.

As for coca cola in glass bottles also remember getting a deposit refund on R.Whites lemonade bottles too.

I remember getting tuppence (old money) for returning empty Corona bottles. They used to produce the best cream soda going, and their orangeade and cherryade weren't bad either

I used to recycle bottles too .... from the back yard of the shop to the counter.

[tommy]

Don't remember a thing. Was born in '86

[BikerGran]

I used to recycle bottles too .... from the back yard of the shop to the counter.

We used to do that with fruit boxes! I lived in Worcestershire in a fruit growing area and the markets supplied sturdy wooden fruit boxes. My friend Martin's dad ran the local shop, and we used to go round the village collecting abandoned fruit boxes - when we couldn't find any we would climb over the back wall of the shop yard and liberate a few!


Oh and that reminds me of the shed in that yard - it was repaired with flattened metal Walls ice cream boxes!

[snapdragon]

mmmmmmmmmmmm dandilion and burdock and an ounce of aniseed balls

and thruppeny bits

used to trawl the stream through the local 'clough' for bottles to take back to the shop

[fastasfcuk]

fond memories.
black and white print news papers from news agents only,
milk from your milk man
and if you wanted to buy any beer to take home it was from the offy at your local.

[kneescratch]

What about cigarette vending machines in the street,

5 Park Drive, 10 No10, 10 No6, Players, senior service

how long would they last now.




Gary

[D-Rider]

What about cigarette vending machines in the street,

5 Park Drive, 10 No10, 10 No6, Players, senior service

how long would they last now.




Gary

.... depends where in the world .... plenty of them still in Japan - though the beer can vending machines are less common there than they once were.