DO YOU REMEMBER THIS??
>
> My Mom or Grandma 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.
>
> They 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 icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli.
>
> Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake
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 bottom 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 bottom spanked there too and then we got bottom spanked again
when
>we got home.
>
> I recall a kid 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. 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?
>
> 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!!
>
>
>
> My Mom or Grandma 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.
>
> They 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 icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli.
>
> Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake
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 bottom 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 bottom spanked there too and then we got bottom spanked again
when
>we got home.
>
> I recall a kid 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. 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?
>
> 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!!
>
>
