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« on: November 25, 2006, 04:29:40 AM » |
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I was doing a little house cleaning on the ole PC and came acrost this. I dont remember if i got it from here or someware els but here ya go.
You Gotta Be Over 40 to Understand
My mother used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach and we didn't get food poisoning.
My Mother used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat a bite raw sometimes, too.
Our school sandwiches or fried chicken for a road trip were wrapped in wax paper, in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers , and I can't remember anybody getting E.coli, can you?
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. And no chemicals in the water.
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 hightop Keds (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors and $150 price tags. I can't recall any injuries but there must have been some because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option even for stupid kids ...if you showed up you passed. 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. Gee, we must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then.
Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything, and smelled of talcum powder. She could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever.
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. How did we exist when batteries were only used for flashlights?
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 Dad calls his lawyer 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 spanked again when we got home. I recall Danny Reynolds from next door 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 with a lawsuit. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such an idiot.
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 make it to today? And manage to raise good kids?
LOVE TO ALL WHO SHARED THIS ERA. TO ALL WHO DIDN''T--- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. WE WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.
Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course) and brighten their day by helping them remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best!
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