The Simple Life

[As told to my sister by our Dad]
Back then-
Everyone wore shirts that said 'Make love,not war.' [as cliched as it may sound]You didn't say 'HI', you said 'PEACE'. 'You rode your bikes slow, so the girls could check you out.There were only about eight bikes and five scooters in Chandigarh.They called themselves the 'Dooks' and the 'Yanks' .A movie cost one rupee fifty, the chinese cost two rupees and a cola was fifty paise, so your date cost you about Rs.5.The movies changed every day, with one English movie showing on Wednesday.You could hear your friends bike from a mile away (literally).Bell bottoms were cool.Every one had a nickname- Fly, Flatty, Squeaky, Gooey.You got your jeans from Jean Junction.Walking was the way you got everywhere- to college and back, to sector seventeen and home.Yelling across the park for cold coffee was normal.So was the cow that lived in your friend-across-the-parks-house.Morni was exciting.Sitting on the round-abouts drinking rum for two rupees was the way to spend your evenings.It was all so simple.This is how it could've been.