With the recent power outage on the Eastern Seaboard, people slowed down their lives, if only for a day or two. It seems fitting that this showed up in my inbox:

Do You Remember When:

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?

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 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?

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 ..." and 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?

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 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?

I remember, Steph. Thanks for the memories ... to borrow an ol' song lyric Bob Hope used. Those were not bad times at all.

Yes!Lets return to those good old days.Also those days when watching a "skin flick" could land you in jail.PlayBoy was the only magazine on the shelf and it cost $0.75. Most people never even heard of homosexuals and they weren't gay then.You could forget about being black or latin these times were pre civil rights and they were considered invisible in society.Jews were restricted from joining most of the country clubs.If you love how far some jerks will go to bring some attention to themselves,yo whould have loved the anti communist hysteria of the 50's.

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Sex is one of nine reasons for reincarnation.The other eight are unimportant...Henry Miller

Isn't it sad that to remember something positive and good.. that you also have to remember something ugly?

Of course, not everything was good in the "Good 'Ol Days", but most of what was mentioned by Steph is something that we all should relish................

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Damn you got an allowance? LOl! I earned a dime for every bale of hay I hauled!!!!! hehe That was my allowance!!!

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I am here for only a short time on this earth. My goal is to make everyone I see smile if only for a moment.

Well Steph, was a great thread...too bad it was destroyed for me.

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Love...the slowest form of suicide.

You av would destroy many a child, Skippy

...........and I will take the blame Steph...

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

for Skip's av, Cheyanne?