DOUBLE DOG DARE YA

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 young enough not to care. How many do you remember?

1. Candy cigarettes
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugarwater inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines.
8. Newsreels before the movie.
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ... (Drexel-5505)
12. Peashooters.
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM Records
15. Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice cube trays--with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flash Bulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork Pop Guns
23. Drive-Ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash Tub Wringers
26. The Fuller Brush Man
27. Reel to reel tape recorders
28. Tinkertoys
29. The Erector Set
30. The Fort Apache Playset
31. Lincoln Logs
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
34. Penny candy
35. Gasoline at 35 cents-a-gallon

A TIME WHEN.....................

• Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
• Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming "do over!"
• "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
• Catching 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 or spitwads.
• A foot of snow was a dream come true.
• Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads 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.
• Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
• Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
• Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!