Remember when only old people got diabetes until the medical industry invented pre-diabetes?
Remember leaving school on the last day of the session chanting, “No more classes, no more books, no more teachers dirty looks.”?
Remember when there were special ditties for certain teachers like this one for English, “Mrs. Solomon is a noun, you can parse her up to down, neuter gender, hopeless case, object of a funny face”?
Remember when, as confirmed by Gene Shepherd, your mom wouldn’t let you have a BB gun because “you’ll shoot your eye out,” (never mind the other kids’ eyes)?
Remember when you dashed off the train at the wrong stop and your mom never told you what to do in case you were separated?
Remember that special feeling of relief on the morning you woke up and realized you had lived a day longer than your dad?
Remember when public toilet doors fit so well that you had to bend and look to see if it was occupied?
Remember when pennies placed on trolley tracks resulted in huge useless copper disks?
Remember when you discovered that a plastic bingo chip could fit into the dime slot of the jukebox and could be retrieved if you attached a string to it?
Remember when cars had external rumble seats situated behind the rear windows of sporty models?
Remember when a bad or missed call by a MLB umpire was considered part of the game and not a crime against humanity?
Remember when the tooth fairy first left paper money under your pillow?
Remember when the milk man came weekly to deliver milk in glass bottles which were left in a little insulated metal box with a hinged lid just outside your door?
Remember when, during the summer, the ice cream man rode a tricycle with an insulated box between the two big front tires and with tinkling bells announcing his approach?
Remember when the baseball Giants were from New York, not SF, the Dodgers from Brooklyn, not LA, and the old Boston Braves from Milwaukee, not Atlanta?
Remember when you lived in a community where if you went to bed forgetting to lock the front door, there was no compulsion to leap from your cozy place to do the deed?
Remember when you needed to devote an entire day to defrosting your refrigerator before spokesperson Betty Furness convinced to buy a frost-free GE model?
Remember when comedian George Burns (minus Gracie Allen) could send radio funnyman Jack Benny into hysterical fits of laughter just by pointing out a bit of lint on his suit jacket or flicking the ash off his cigar?
Remember when pre-Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show was hosted in order by Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Lescoulie, Al Jazz-bo Collins and Jack Paar?
Remember when you were lovingly called by your mispronunciation of your own name until being sent off to kindergarten?
Remember when bottled whole milk came with the cream risen to the top and required shaking?
Remember when all your morning juice glasses were repurposed jelly jars?
Remember when on designated days movie theaters gave out dishes, bowls and cups, enough to makes a setting for 8 over the course of a year?