Oh for the Good Old Days!
At 96 I am privileged to have gone through most of these changing scenes in life.
Many of you may have gone through it as well. Take time to Watch & Enjoy.
All the girls had ugly school uniforms
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 pure-bred 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
Mum cooked every night and nearly every meal was
meat and 3 veg with a roast on Sunday.
They threatened to keep children back a year if they
failed the school year … And they did!
When an FC Holden was everyone’s dream car
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 headmaster’s 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, and bonfire nights with REAL firecrackers.
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.
Choo Choo Bars and Fags. (That word had no other meaning then.)
Home milk delivery before glass bottles (with tinfoil tops )
when the milkman filled your billy.
LPs & 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 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 shanghai?
Playing war with pretend guns but “real” wooden swords.
Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant being given half of one of mum’s
Bex tablets for a headache.
Lighting a whole row of Tom Thumbs and throwing them
at your mate’s feet, was the ultimate weapon.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Those were the Days
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Pass this on to anyone who may need a reminder from their ‘Grown-Up’ Life ! ! ! – from way back when.
