You're Getting Old If...

You’re getting old if you remember when:

• All the girls had ugly gym uniforms. And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's!
• It took three minutes for the TV to warm up.
• Nobody owned a purebred dog.
• When a quarter was a decent allowance.
• You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
• Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.
• You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked and gas pumped, all for free. And you didn't pay for air and got trading stamps too.
• Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels inside the box.
• It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner by your parents.

• They kept kids back a grade if they failed.
• A 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car and people went steady.
• No one asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car ignition with the doors unlocked.
• Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals.
• Being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited them at home.
• Kids had candy cigarettes and wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
• Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
• Coffee shop tables had side jukeboxes
• Milk was delivered to your doorstep in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
• Businesses issued Green Stamps to customers.
• A race issue was arguing about who could run the fastest.
• Having a Weapon in School meant having your Slingshot confiscated.
• The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team and War was a card game.
• Taking drugs meant orange flavored children’s chewable aspirin.
• Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
• Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
• “Oly-oly-oxen-free” made perfect sense.
• Saturday morning cartoons weren't half hour commercials for action figures.
• It wasn't unusual to have two or three “Best Friends.”
• Catching fire flies could easily occupy an entire evening.
• Decisions were made by saying “eeny-meeny-miney-moe.”
• People used mimeograph paper.
• There were Hi-Fi's and 45 RPM records.
• Telephone numbers had a word prefix (Yukon, Klondike etc.)
• Movies were always preceded by newsreels and a cartoon.
• There was Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
• Howdy Doody, The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers were the best shows on TV.
• A “Double Dog Dare” was the ultimate challenge.