The following was sent in by: Tom Meinecke. Thanks Tom.
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----- Subject: 57 CHEVY - Sit Back and Enjoy!!!!!!
Remember when......?
Turn on your sound and remember. . . . You'll
enjoy this one. OK, so some
of you might have been too young to
remember . . . . enjoy the music anyway.
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 for the first time and we
were allowed to stay out till 12 P.M.
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car. . .
to cruise, peel out, lay rubber and watch drag
races, and people went steady and girls wore a
class
ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss
or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it
would fit her finger.
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...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 the 80's and 90's...
So send this on to someone who can still
remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel
& Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery,
The Lone Ranger,
The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale,
Trigger and Buttermilk as well as 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.
When being sent to the principal's office was
nothing compared to the fate that awaited a
misbehaving 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 all survived because
their love was greater than the threat.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say,
Yeah, I remember that!
And was it really that long ago?
Yea!
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