gurrera
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When Life Was Fun All the girls had ugly
> gym uniforms. And, wore tennis shoes - not $200 Nike's!
>
> It took 3 min 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! You didn't pay for air.
> And, you got trading stamps to boot!
> <mime-attachment13.jpg> 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!
> <mime-attachment12.jpg>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
> are the car keys’ 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...'. At night, looking
> for the Big Dipper?
>
> 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? Parents &
> Teachers were on the same side - discipline, good grades -
> earned good grades.
>
> Basically we were in
> fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by
> shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Disappointing our parents and
> grandparents was 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, visits to the pool, and
> eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
> Now, didn't that
> feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember
> that'?
Gurrera
> gym uniforms. And, wore tennis shoes - not $200 Nike's!
>
> It took 3 min 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! You didn't pay for air.
> And, you got trading stamps to boot!
> <mime-attachment13.jpg> 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!
> <mime-attachment12.jpg>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
> are the car keys’ 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...'. At night, looking
> for the Big Dipper?
>
> 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? Parents &
> Teachers were on the same side - discipline, good grades -
> earned good grades.
>
> Basically we were in
> fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by
> shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Disappointing our parents and
> grandparents was 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, visits to the pool, and
> eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
> Now, didn't that
> feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember
> that'?
Gurrera
