Remember those days as a strapping young lad when your parents would announce with Ozzie and Harriet-like pride that they were taking you out "somewhere special" to celebrate a birthday, a straight-A report card or a home-run hit? Those rare times when you didn't mind getting gussied up, spit-polishing your saddle shoes and donning that Kennedy-esque blue blazer with the brass buttons? Even though you probably ordered off the kids' menu, they were elegant moments to cherish.

Well, cling to those memories tightly....