Remember this little lot and you really have lived.

Seymour · Remember this little lot and you really have lived.

REMEMBER WHEN?

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a shilling a week was decent pocket money?
White dog poo in the street?
You only had to be home when the street lights came on?

Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore ties
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?
Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did?
When a Ford Capri was everyone's dream car?
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?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a… “
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 headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster?

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.

As well as summers filled with bike rides,
cricket games, Hula Hoops, monkey bars,
Frozen jubblies, visits to the beach and lemonade
powder. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that"?

How many of these do you remember?

Sweet cigarettes,
pogo sticks,
marbles,
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops
Newsreels before the movie
Sandshoes/Desert wellies
Four digit Telephone numbers
Press button A then button B
45 RPM records
Hi-Fi s
Metal ice cubes trays
Mimeograph paper
Spud guns
Ford Capris
Twin Tubs
Izal toilet paper
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
houses made of cards
Meccano Sets
Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum
MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads
Two bob for a gallon of petrol

Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"?
"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 catapult?
There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute adverts 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

Putting playing cards in the spokes
transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant the Polio injection in school
Nitty Nora
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

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

Thumper

Good times Michael

Selious5

I do remember most of them Michael

and as Shelley said good happy times

Seymour

Unfortunately i remember every blasted one of them.

Thumper

I can remember most of them too, and I'm still under 30 ( just )

Memph1s

i remember a lot of those but i do fear im one of the last. i feel sorry for kids of today "i NEED the latest shoot em up for the wii" no you dont! just take a stick from the garden and play cops and robbers!

Serenity

Wow what a blast Michael I still remember most of them! I wish it was still the same too!

I've still got two box cases full of 45 single records

Spinning around, yeah we all used to do that, spin and spin till we fell, then we'd sit and make daisy chains for hours.*Sigh*

Dreama

i can remember most of that lol. The bit about the tele especially, no such thing as a remote, where I was the remote lol.

redhead

most of it I rem

but you forgot the policeman who would give you a clip round the ear !!!!!!!!

Ford Capri the must have car , well someone in the next road to mine as the biege one still looks cool cars .

Majortom

Unfortunately i remember them all too lol

One not on the list though was bogies or bogeys lol and before you all go ewwwwwwwww i mean a plank with old pram wheels on lolol and steered with rope and if you were really posh you had a block of wood nailed on the back where someone would push you with an old broom handle lol

Majortom

Oh and going to the flicks saturday morning to see the matinees lolol i used to go to the ambassador , essoldo , and carlton all in Salford ( thats coronation street , weatherfield to you lot lol ) and the broadway in eccles ( where the cakes come from lol )

redhead

yep but rarely went to sat matinees we had to take in turns as there was 7 of us but when the manager at flicks wasn't there one of us paid to get in and when the lights went down one of us would run down and open the fire exit to let the others in , never many ppl there after all it was known as the flea pit !!! say no more

judyteen

i rem most of em too and yes very happy memories ...just goes to show what our children have missed out on all that fun and freedom ..shame