DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a shilling was a decent allowance?

You had to be home when the street lights came on?

Your Mom wore stockings that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?

Cereals had free toys 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 year if they failed. . .and they did?

When a FE Holden was everyone's dream car?

No one ever asked where the car keys werebecause 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 footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the shop 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?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?

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.

Who can still remember Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, the Lone Ranger, Phantom and Triggerat the flicks.

As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games,  Hula Hoops, monkey bars, visits to the beach.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?

How many of these do you remember?

Lolly cigarettes, pogo sticks, marbles,
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with aluminium tops or even when you supplied your own jug to be filled from a churn
Newsreelsand cartoons before the movie
Sandshoes
Three digit Telephone numbers
78 RPM records
Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Holden‘s
Washtub wringers
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
houses made of cards
Mechano Sets
That awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny lollies
Two bob for a gallon of petrol

Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs"?

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute commercials for action figures?

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

The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents

Playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs was the Polio shots at school

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!