Can the Adults Please Smoke? Chapter 23: Off on a Drinking Spree- Page 113

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 6:19am

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... '

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? 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.

Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Roy and Dale and Trigger, and Buttermilk.

. .as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling 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.

How many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

P.F. Fliers.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Howdy Doody.

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'!

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'!

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!

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 6:43am

Mornin'.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 6:51am

Dtwo..where's my dinner?

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 6:53am

"where's my dinner" what?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 6:59am

Well it's evening here..I don't need grapefruit..I need a steak

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:00am

You're getting lasagna and liking it.

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:01am

And next time say "please." How can we expect Shira to have any manners if her own FGs are barking orders at each other?

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:06am

boobs likes to order everyone around.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:08am

Sorry..PLEASE can I have steak? NOW !!!

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:14am

Well, when you put it that way... At least now I know which FG she gets it from.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:16am

Thanks Dtwo..you're the bestest Well, Shi-shi and me are both Cancerians.

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:18am

So is J2 - no wonder I can't resist you two.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:27am

Good Lord. He's misplaced his damn manners over there.

Morning kiddles!

Lovely day today. Computer monitor is deader than the horse they keep beating around these parts.

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:30am

Your monitor's been LuPwnd!?! Oh, my!

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:36am

Well, if you want to put it that way, I guess it has!

It's very awkward. The laptop screen is to my left, the keyboard is in front of me, and the mouse is to my right. I feel a little twisted.

Updated On: 7/1/08 at 07:36 AM

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:09am

Girly, I read the thread you said I should have read. All I can say is there's a new Queen of Retard World.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:13am

Good morning kids! I had work to do before I could get over here. How dare they!

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:16am

Hey, SOMMS!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:19am

Demanding Boobs, Twisted Girly and Accomodating Deetie. All is right with the world!

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:20am

Somms, how rude!!

Okay, it's only been 30ish minutes, and I have a crick in my back already. I have to figure something out here, but there's really no room to move everything. My tech doesn't stroll in until 9:30ish. GRRR!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:22am

Morning!!!

[DG]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:26am

"there's a new Queen of Retard World."

I think I just stumbled into that thread. Dear, God!

Morning.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:29am

BTW, my 'how rude' comment was to the fact that they made you work before checking in with us!!

Twisted Girly. I likey!!

Morning DG and Tink!

[shira467]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:32am

Morning!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:32am

The phone has not stopped ringing. Damn people have figured out that I'm in here at seven, but not that 7 to 8 is for posting to my peeps on BWW. ONLY!!!!