Women of a Certain Age – “Old School” Edition
Women of a Certain Age – “Old School” Edition
By Cate Rees-Hessel
- If your call math “arithmetic”, you might be a woman of a certain age.
- If you call mathematics new math…
- If you ever carried books in a strap…
- If your back to school wardrobe included Peter Pan collars and plaid…
- If sleepovers during the school year meant popcorn and a Frankie Avalon movie on network TV…
- If you had a Friday night party with a record player and bottles of Coke…
- If your birthday during the school year meant homemade cupcakes for the class…
- If you ever took a peanut butter fluff sandwich in your Scooby Doo lunch box…
- If you owned a Howdy Doody lunch pail…
- If you watched a happy tooth film strip…
- If you know what a film strip is…
- If you had a gym uniform that was a short jumpsuit in a shade of blue…
- If you wore white Keds with pom-pom socks (mine were pink)…
- If your cheerleading uniform didn’t expose your belly button…
- If Friday night football games were followed up at the malt shop…
- If you went on high school dates at the drive-in…
- If you know what activity was done in a rumble seat…
- If you participated in said activity in a rumble seat…
- If you participated in the same activity at the drive in…
- If you know what a rumble seat is…
- If you had a back-to-school Lilt perm, courtesy of your older sister or cousin…
- If you drove to school in a 1967 Mustang…
- If you know what a bobby soxer is…
- If you ever owned bobby socks…
- If you read Tiger Beat in the girls room at school…
- If students today read about your era in history books…
- If you carried mad money on dates during your high school or college years…
- If your sorority sisters wore pink foam rollers and half slips…
- If you ever wore pink foam rollers or half slips…
- If you know what a half slip is…
Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2026!
