Remember when you could see your toes?
Remember John Edwards?
Remember when Steve Martin was a wild and crazy guy?
Remember telephone booths?
Remember Enron?
Remember when kids played outside? By themselves? For most of the day?
Remember smoke-filled newsrooms?
Remember who shot JR?
Remember when hair didn’t grow in your ears?
Remember hearing “Stairway to Heaven” for the first time?
Remember your second kiss?
Remember when it actually used to snow?
Remember when kids in classrooms paused to watch space launches?
Remember when your wife announced that the stick had turned blue?
Remember when Al Gore invented the Internet?
Remember playing catch with your dad?
Remember “Chariots of Fire”?
Remember when gas stations cleaned your windshield and checked your oil because that’s what every station did?
Remember Payne Stewart’s golf attire?
Remember the first time you used a mouse?
Remember typewriting class?
Remember collecting S&H Green Stamps and pasting them in books?
Remember the Ayatollah?
Remember Liberace?
Remember reading the liner notes on albums?
Remember when the backs of Post cereal boxes carried baseball cards?
Remember how good white bread used to taste?
Remember cigarette commercials on television?
Remember using a dictionary and not spell-check?
Remember listening to Bill Cosby comedy albums?
Remember life before Facebook?
Remember when every medicine cabinet had a bottle of paragoric?
Remember the best curve you ever threw with a Wiffle Ball?
Remember John and Yoko’s sleep-in?
Remember paper boys?
Remember “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz”?
Remember how it felt the first time a barber lathered warm shaving cream around your ears and used his straight razor?
Remember being on a party line?
Remember listening to the World Series in school on a transistor radio?
Remember Coke in a 6-ounce bottle?
Remember when John Anderson ran for president?
Remember when Don Rickles would appear on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show”?
Remember how shocked you were when the Jets won Super Bowl III?
Remember when your back didn’t hurt?
Remember hating school bus seats that had the hump in the floor from the wheel well?
Remember Gary Hart?
Remember being mesmerized by the color wheel on your family’s aluminum Christmas tree?
Remember laughing at people who always talked about the good old days?
Remember ó ah, forget it.