DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? pt 1

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?

Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school, and nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom 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 windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for water or air, and you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great thing to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?  Remeber when those restaurants advertised air-conditioning to get you inside?  They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed and they did?

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, 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 baseball 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 savor the slower pace,and share it with the children of today?