Hi folks! Thanks to Loudonville resident Ken Utterback, my childhood memories came flashing back to me when I read the following story he sent to me. I am sure you will remember these wonderful times as much as I. Those were truly the best of days!
I remember it all!!!!!!!! You know what that means!!!!!!!!!
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up.
Nobody owned a purebred dog.
When a quarter was a decent allowance and made with real Silver!
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. Made with real copper! Looking to see if it was a 1943 copper penny!
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.
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. Not to mention Cracker Jacks!
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!
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 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 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.
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, Hula hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that.
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "Grown-Up" Life. I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!
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Birthdays being celebrated this week include Feb. 18 – Chuck Darr; Feb. 19 – Carolyn Black and Brian Dilgard; Feb. 20 – Marcus Smith and Rebekah North; Feb. 21 – Ann Weber; Feb. 22 – Sarah Purdy; Feb. 23 – Melisa Swainhart, Steve Ayers, Fred Heffelfinger and Don Kiner; Feb. 24 – Marilyn Carroll.
Many happy returns of the day!
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A friendly note to our readers: If I have made an error on your birthday or wedding anniversary, please call me at 419-938-7682 or email at tessie1@neo.rr.com as I would like to not embarrass you or me with the wrong date!
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Wedding anniversaries being observed this week include Feb. 19 – Bob and Kathy Buzzard; Feb. 20 – Jack and Pam Underwood; Feb. 23 – Jon and Cindy Nickles.
Congratulations!
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Finally - "Spread love everywhere you go: first of all, in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." – Mother Theresa
2020-02-17 08:10:36Z
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