Do You Remember When - I Double Dog Dare You

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This email I received is too long for one post and Part II must be posted as well. This is the best one I have read. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN.... 1.All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? 2.It took five minutes for the TV warm up? 3.Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? 4.Nobody owned a purebred dog? 5.When a quarter was a decent allowance? 6.You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? 7.Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? 8.All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done everyday and wore high heels? 9.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? 10.Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? 11.It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? 12.They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed . . . and they did? 13.When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? 14.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? 15.Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ..." 16.Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? 17.Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? 18.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. 19.And how many of you remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, 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. If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! 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? And don't forget Part II will be along shortly so you may want to save your responses to post at that time. I won't be offended.