The good ol days

[Sherrell]

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Black and White TV
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)




You could hardly see for all the snow,

Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set, 

'Good Night, David. 
Good Night, Chet.' 




My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.   





Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the river instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. 

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.





We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors.  I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we  are now.




Flunking  gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative  attention.




We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. 

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of  the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. 





Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.
       





I recall Freddie Holiday from down the street coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.

Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house (no lawsuits back then).

Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.








To  top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.

How could we possibly have known that? 

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.

We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!

How did we ever  survive?

[Crappiepro]

I hear ya loud and clear!! Times sure have changed! Everybody's excuse is Bi-Polar now LOL. I know when I was a kid and I acted Bi-Polar, I got the belt and I wasn't Bi-Polar anymore LOL!!

[Woodsman4God]

I hear ya loud and clear!! Times sure have changed! Everybody's excuse is Bi-Polar now LOL. I know when I was a kid and I acted Bi-Polar, I got the belt and I wasn't Bi-Polar anymore LOL!!

Not to mention kids in school acting up or daydreaming, go get a swat from the principle and it straigtened you right out, no attention problems after that, now most kids are A.D.H.D and given drugs to control their behaviour

[Sherrell]

when I was little belt control was most effective and thankful everyday that it was used when necessary. it has showed to be a success in my case.

[savduck]

Im 35 and can remember that. I feel the same way.

[Hognutz]

What ever saved us from ourselves. The times, they are a changin'...

[twinters]

not to mention hand me downs,one pair of shoes a year(who needed shoes in the summer),and in the winter you didn't just turn the thermometer up,had to tote the fire wood in and keep a fire all night.and i cant begin to recall how many times i got my back side wore out by the neighbor,mom would just thank them then give me some more, sure was tough then(what i wouldn't give to go back)

[longspur]

get in trouble at school the teacher or principle would whoop your @$$. Mama finds out you get some more. And it wasn't a spanking eather.

[runngun]

AMEN

[mossy835]

This post brings back fond memories and some painful ones as well!

[Brent]

 No offense but it your mom really was that unsanitary in the kitchen you really are pretty lucky you survived

[Sherrell]

No offense but it your mom really was that unsanitary in the kitchen you really are pretty lucky you survived

Do you always believe everything you read?The tooth fairy will pay you a visit no doubt!

[Brent]

No offense but it your mom really was that unsanitary in the kitchen you really are pretty lucky you survived

Do you always believe everything you read?The tooth fairy will pay you a visit no doubt!

In that case, why would you make up a horrible story like that about your mom and then put it on the internet?

[Sherrell]

It was forwarded from someone to me..please use your head for something other than a hat rack.


Leave my mother out of this HOSS!!!

[Brent]

Like I said in my first post no offense.  No need for the insults and the internet tough guy stuff there's an abundance of those anyway without you deciding you need to be one.