Tragedy always puts in a time warp. It is a time when we want to remember the innocent days of our lives. Do you remember those days?

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a "double dog dare". If you don't remember what a "double dog dare" is, read on.

And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old | enough to know better and young enough not to care. How many do you remember?

1. Candy cigarettes -- how we made believe we were smoking them.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. How we used to chew the wax 'till our jaws ached.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles -- how we used them as binoculars.
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes - - how we dropped endless nickels in mesmerized by the music.
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum -- how we couldn't talk without constantly chewing gum.
6. P. F. Flyers -- and the plane ID games we played.
7. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Drexel-5505) -- how easy they were to memorize.
8. The 45 RPM records -- how we thought they were the ultimate in recording technology.
9. Hi-fi's -- the same.
10. Metal ice cube trays--with levers -- I still miss them.
11. Blue flash Bulbs -- I still have a few tucked away with my lens camera.
12. Cork popguns -- how we thought they were close to real ones.
13. Tinker toys -- my grandson plays with his father's original set.
14. The Erector Set
15. Lincoln Logs.
16. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers -- ??????????
17. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubble gum. Ah, yes.
18. And a time when decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
19. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
20. "Race issue," meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
21. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
22. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
23. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties".
24. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
25. A foot of snow was a dream comes true.
26. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
27. "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
28. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
29. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
30. War was a card game.
31. Water balloons were the ultimate weapons.
32. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
33. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin

EDITOR'S NOTE:
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!