Did you hear about the teacher who was helping

one of her kindergarten students put his boots on?

He asked for help and she could see why. With

her pulling and him pushing, the boots still didn’t want

to go on. When the second boot was on, she had worked up

a sweat. She almost whimpered when the little boy said,

“Teacher, they’re on the wrong feet.” She looked, and sure

enough, they were. It wasn’t any easier pulling the boots

off than it was putting them on. She managed to keep her

cool as together they worked to get the boots back on-

this time on the right feet. He then announced, “These

aren’t my boots.” She bit her tongue rather than get right

in his face and scream, “Why didn’t you say so?” like she

wanted to. Once again she struggled to help him pull the

ill-fitting boots off. He then said, “They’re my brother’s

boots. My Mom made me wear them.” She didn’t know if she

should laugh or cry. She mustered up the grace to wrestle

the boots on his feet again. She said, “Now, where are your

mittens?” He said,”I stuffed them in the toes of my boots…”

Age Barometer

Count how many you remember…

1. Blackjack chewing gum

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

7. Party lines

8. Newsreels before the movie

9. P.F. Flyers

10. Butch wax

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933)

12. Peashooters

13. Howdy Doody

14. 45 RPM records

15. S&H Green Stamps

16. Hi-fi’s

17. Metal ice trays with levers

18. Mimeograph paper

19. Blue flashbulbs

20. Beanie and Cecil

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-in

24. Studebakers

25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 You’re still young

If you remembered 6-10 You are getting older

If you remembered 11-15 Don’t tell your age

If you remembered 16-25 You’re older than dirt!

Does anyone remember them all? I only remembered 23

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