DO YOU REMEMBER?

DO YOU REMEMBER?

Do you remember when Coca Cola came in the green seven-ounce bottles?

Do you remember when the name of the bottling city was etched on the bottom?
I remember one day getting one that said “Hilo.” It was exciting to get a bottle that had originated in Hawaii.

Do you remember the taste of Coke in those seven-ounce bottles?
It really doesn’t taste the same today.

Do you remember the first day you were out of high school?
That was exciting. We had just heard the speeches about the world being our oyster.

Do you remember the first day you were out of college?
That was scary. Now, I had to put into action what I had learned. Had I really learned it well enough?

Do you remember your first day on your first part-time job?

Do you remember the first day on the job that was to be your career?
How long did it take to realize, “Yeah, I did learn well enough to do a good job?”

Do you remember the last day you were single?
Were you really thinking about being single, or were you thinking about tomorrow when you would be married?

Do you remember the first day you were married?
I sure do! It was great, and it still is!

Do you remember the smell of “sugaring off” days?
Springtime in Maple sugar country.

Do you remember the taste of maple sugar cakes?

Do you remember Burma Shave and their roadway advertisements?
I really enjoyed them from the time I could read until they disappeared.

Do you remember orange-pineapple ice cream?

Do you remember blue moon ice cream?

Do you remember fountain cherry cokes?

Do you remember the first basket your scored for your high school basketball team?

Do you remember electric cattle fences and the surge of electricity going through them?
Did you and your friends dare each other to grab the wire and hold on? We did, and it was a jolt.

Do you remember playing baseball when there weren’t enough outfielders so that any ball hit into right field was an out?

Do you remember playing hide and seek in the largest yard in town when it was getting dark?

Do you remember your first bicycle?

Do you remember taking your driver’s test?
Was it just me, or did they purposely fail boys the first time they took the test?

Do you remember the first time you bought a girl a “real” Christmas present?

Do you remember the day when you realized, “Yeah, she is definitely the ONE?”

Do you remember the look on your father-in-law’s face on your wedding day?
I do; he was smiling from ear to ear.

Do you remember the silly grin you had when your wife told you she was going to have a baby?

Do you remember driving home from the hospital with your brand new baby in the car?
I thought every car on the road was coming right at me.

Do you remember ice cream in pints and your parents cutting it in two so you and your sister/brother could share it?

Do you remember how nervous you were the day you proposed?

Do you remember how stale the bubble gum was in the packages of baseball cards?

Do you remember how difficult it was to get to sleep Christmas Eve?

Do you remember looking in the store windows at the electric trains at Christmas time?

Do you remember when a new Chevy cost less than $2000?

Do you remember John Cameron Swayze and the fifteen-minute evening news?
AND, do you remember his sponsor? (Camel Cigarettes)

Do you remember going outside to move the antenna when you changed tv stations?

Do you remember your excitement when the disc jockey said, “This one is going out to _____?”

Do you remember sock hops after the basketball games?

Do you remember decorating for the prom?

Do you remember trying to figure out how to put your prom date’s corsage on?
AND how glad you were when her mom said, “Here, I’ll do it.”

Do you remember the day you made your first house payment?

Do you remember the day you made your last house payment?

Somehow, these things are easy to remember, even when I’m not sure what I ate for lunch yesterday. They’re certainly more fun to remember than what I had for lunch yesterday.