moldyoldy

> My mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs
> and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with
> the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food
> poisoning.
>
> 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 lake
> or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about
> boring), no beach closures then.
>
> We all took PE ...And risked permanent injury with a pair of
> canvas tennis shoes instead of having cross-training
> athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light
> reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall
> any injuries but they must have happened because they tell
> us how much safer we are now.
>
> We got the strap for doing something wrong at school, they
> used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the
> rules and to honour & respect those older than us. We
> had 50 kids in our class and we all learned to read and
> write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to
> write a grammatically correct letter......, FUNNY
> THAT!
>
> We all said prayers in school irrespective of our religion,
> sang the national anthem and no one got
> upset.
>
> Staying in detention after school caught all sorts of
> negative attention we wish we hadn’t got.
>
> 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. We weren't!
>
> Oh yeah ... And where was the antibiotic and sterilisation
> kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been
> k**led!
>
> We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on
> vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out
> the bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked.
> Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day
> dose of antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the
> contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel
> where it was such a threat.
>
> 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 never needed to get into group therapy and/or 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?
>
>
>
> LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO
> DIDN’T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR
> ANYTHING!

bahmer

Good one, brings back memories.

mongo Loc: TEXAS

Well said! Thank you.

SEMPER FI

boatbob2

WOW !!! I can relate to this blurb,but,you forgot about walking about 1 1/2 miles to school,in the snow,up hill both ways (that's the way my Dad told me) and no old busybody called the cops,because you had to walk that distance...

moldyoldy

Your dad was right about the up hill both ways, but it was 5 miles.

BobDew

As AB would say"They were the good old days! What happened to "kick the can" or staying out until supper was ready? Or listening to "Intersanctum or Fibber Magee and Molly, or The Shadow, yes they were the good old days!

moldyoldy

My favorite on the radio was the Lone Ranger.

badbobby Loc: texas

well said Moldy
times have indeed changed
Im just not sure they are for the better
we used to have to compete for any honors
now political correctness says that all children deserve recognition,irregardless of ability
seems to me that makes us a weak nation

moldyoldy

They are rethinking that everybody is a winner stuff. The same with Dr, Spocks child rearing theories. But the world is full of crazies now, so free range children are a thing of the past.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

And barefoot, in the snow...year 'round :!: :mrgreen:

moldyoldy

shoes with no soles.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Why name Archie?
Great post! I remember strapping .22s to the handlebars of our bikes so we could go about 4 miles out in the country to shoot at prairie dogs. There is a Wal-Mart there now.......
I rode my bike, walked....threw papers in the snow, or rain in order to get my own place once I turned 17, and could legally do it!! My family put the FUNK in dysfunctional!!
Don't fault me for that.....
We (the siblings) have put it back together in a way that would scare you!!
We are, after all, a bunch of admitted, white trash rednecks!!
Sometimes though......we are not what we seem.......... :?:

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Now it seems it is the people who have no souls.