Remember . . . .?

 

When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test, or chew gum

 

And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and the boys wore suits and we were allowed to stay out ‘till midnight

 

When a ’57 Chevy was everyone’s dream car . . . to cruise,

peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races

 

And no one ever asked where the car keys were ‘cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked

 

And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the

doors at home, since no one ever had a key

 

Remember lying on your back on 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? Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience – it was a game.

 

Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals ‘cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger

 

And everyone knew about Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys,

Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The

Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk

 

When everyone was familiar with the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool . . . and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar

 

You may have grown up in the fifties if you heard your

parents say . . . .

 

 

• I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are it’s going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.

• Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long until $5,000 will only buy a used one.

• Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?

• If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.

• When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 50 cents a gallon?

 

• I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying ‘damn’ in Gone With the Wind, it seems every movie has a ’hell’ or ‘damn’ in it.

 

• Also, it won’t be long until couples are sleeping in the same bed in the movies. What is this world coming to?

• Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a good 10 cent cigar.

• I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it here in Texas.

• Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the president.

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