Remember When? Part II

I had so much fun with yesterday's "Remember When?" post, I decided to add some more today. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. Memory Lane can be fun :-)

Remember when everybody in the car pitched in a buck and there was enough gas to cruise with your friends all weekend?

Remember when you would run through the lawn sprinkler on hot summer days?

Remember when you went to the corner store with a quarter and came out with a whole bag full of candy?

Remember when your mom sent you to the corner store with a note for her cigarettes and the storekeeper sold them to you because he KNEW they weren't for you? No? Maybe that was just me.

Remember when your dad smoked in the car with the windows UP? IN THE SUMMERTIME NO LESS! (This one courtesy of my wife)

Remember when your mom said, "Wait until your father gets home!", and there was a genuine reason to be scared out of your wits?

Remember when your dad gave you a sip of his beer and you felt like a big shot?

Remember when the needle on your record player broke and you had to wait weeks before you could listen to music again?

Remember when you played baseball in the backyard and there were bare spots in the grass where the bases and pitcher's mound were located?

Remember when you played touch football in the street and yelled, "CAR!"? It was everybody's responsibility to keep anyone from getting killed.

Remember when you sprayed your dad's cologne on a love note? I really THOUGHT that pretty girl would think I was a stud muffin!

Remember when you got that lump in your throat and the sheer terror that preceded asking a girl to dance?

Remember when you cheered your head off when you heard school was closed for a snow day?

Remember when you could eat anything and everything and it didn't make you look like a pregnant pear?

Remember when you thought your teacher lived at the school because she was there when you left and still there when you got back the next morning? Do you also remember when you were shocked when you heard your teacher had a husband and kids of her own?

Remember when you turned 18 and your dad was so excited because you could now drive to the store and buy his beer? (this was before the legal drinking age was 21). Maybe this one is just me too :-)

Remember when you thought your childhood friends would be your friends forever? Where are they now? Most of us probably have no idea!

Remember when you were first allowed to drive a car by yourself? The freedom was intoxicating!

Remember when you would fight with your siblings over who got the prize in the bottom of the cereal box? Remember when you first realized those prizes were a a bunch of JUNK?

Remember when you would buy a pack of baseball cards and you would rifle through them looking for Cincinnati Reds cards? Remember the smell of the bubble gum when you ripped the wax wrapper off?

Remember when you thought you were staying up really late when you heard, "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere's JOHNNY!" followed by the Tonight Show theme?

Remember when your parents raided your piggy bank to buy a loaf of bread because there was too much week left at the end of the paycheck?

Remember when bullying consisted of someone saying, "Nanny Nanny Boo Boo" on the playground as opposed to threatening to kill them on Facebook?

Remember when you drank from the garden hose on a hot day? There's nothing like that rubbery garden hose taste. There was probably some nasty stuff in that hose, but we didn't care!

Remember when you would catch lightning bugs and put them in a jar? We thought if we caught enough of them we could make a lantern. Were we really dumb enough to believe they would all light up at the same time?