1981  & 2005 – Two  Interesting Years – Down memory Lane….

Interesting  Year 1981
1.  Prince Charles got married.
2.  Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of   Europe .
3.  Australia  lost the Ashes.
4.  The Pope died.

 
Interesting  Year 2005
1.  Prince Charles got  married.
2.  Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of   Europe .
3.  Australia  lost the Ashes.
4.  The Pope died.

Lesson  to be learned:
The  next time Charles gets married, someone should  warn the  Pope.

 

KEEP  READING…………………..……………..

    REMEMBER   WHEN:

All  the girls had ugly gym slips 

 

It  took five minutes for the TV to warm  up 

Nearly  everyone’s Mum was home when the kids got home  from school 

 Nobody  owned a purebred dog 

You’d  reach into a muddy gutter for a  penny

 

Your  Mother wore nylons that came in two  pieces 

All  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 the school year. . .   And
They  did! 

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 headmasters office was nothing  compared to the fate that awaited you 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, skating and  visits
To  the pool, 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? 

Blackjacks  and bubble gums. 

Home  milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil  tops 

Hi-If’s  & 45 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  tadpoles could happily occupy an entire  day? 

It  wasn’t odd to have two or three   ‘Best  Friends’? 

Having  a Weapon in School meant being caught with a  Catapult ?

(we used unwind the core of Golf balls for the elastic!)

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!!!!!!!