Remember When...

Remember when--- All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike’s!?

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up??

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?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn’t pay for 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 privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... and they did it!

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.

When being sent to the principal’s office 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. 

And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, ‘Yeah, I remember that’??
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on... To remember what a Double Dog 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 Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.?

How Many Of These Do You Remember??Candy cigarettes...

Wax Coke-shaped wax bottles with colored sugar water inside...

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles...

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes...

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum...

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...

Newsreels before the movie...?

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines...

Peashooters...?

Hi-Fi’s & 45 RPM records...


78 RPM records...
Green Stamps...


Mimeograph paper...

The Fort Apache Play Set... 

Do You Remember a Time When Decisions were made by going...?‘eeny-meeny-miney-moe’??

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, ‘Do Over!’??
‘Race issue’ meant arguing about who ran the fastest?


Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?

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


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

Saturday morning cartoons weren’t 30-minute commercials for action figures?

‘Oly-oly-oxen-free’ made perfect sense?

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

The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

Baseball 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-Dog-Dare-Ya! 

Exercise Routine for Seniors

Daily Exercise Routine For Seniors...And those who will join us soon....

Then pour yourself a glass of good wine.

When Parents Text

This blog is dedicated to the trials and errors that come when a parent handles a cellphone.

Scrolling

• DAD: Why do you keep sending me half finished texts.
• ME: What are you talking about? I’m sending you whole texts.
• DAD: Send me separate texts if they’re long. I can’t see any more than a sentence.
• ME: Dad, scroll down.
• DAD: Oh. 

Chocolate Chip

• Dad: What are you doing?
• Me: I’m at Grandma’s house. What do you need?
• Dad: I want cookies. Chocolate chip. Get them for me. I will pay.
• Me: Ask mom.
• Dad: I did. She won’t. Says no. Get cookies please.
• Me: I will on my way home.
• (10 minutes later)
• Dad: Nevermind. Mom found texts. NO COOKIES! ABORT MISSION!

http://whenparentstext.com/

Sitting - The Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Do All Day

The Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Do All Day
By Bill Phillips and the Editors of Men’s Health
Mar 30, 2011

Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks.

That’s right—I said 54 percent!

Why?
1. Screws up your posture.
2. Makes you fatter.
3. Causes lower back pain.


Read the complete article:

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/most-dangerous-thing-youll-do-all-day

Finally, a Mobile Phone for Senoirs

At Last, a Mobile Phone for Seniors!

You REALLY have to be OLD to appreciate THIS joke.

Bob Hope in Heaven

For those of you too young to remember Bob Hope, ask your Grandparents.

And thanks for the memories. WHAT A WONDERFUL E-MAIL.

I HOPE THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART.
Tribute to a man who DID make a difference.

ON TURNING 70
“You still chase women, but only downhill.”

ON TURNING 80
“That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.”

ON TURNING 90
“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

ON TURNING 100
“I don’t feel old. In fact, I don't feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.”

ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING
“I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.”

ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR
“Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it’s called at my home, ‘Passover’.”

ON GOLF
“Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.”

ON PRESIDENTS
“I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.”

ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER
“When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, Congratulations, you have an eight pound ham.”

ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
“I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.”

ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY
“Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.”

ON HIS SIX BROTHERS
“That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.”

ON HIS EARLY FAILURES
“I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.”

ON GOING TO HEAVEN
“I’ve done benefits for ALL religions. I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.’