Posted on 01/19/2015 4:18:04 PM PST by navysealdad
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!
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I was riding with Mom and my sister Ann when she was just a baby. that would make me about 2 and a half or so. Well Mom ran out of gas. She sent me to go to the gas station we had passed about a half mile back.
A gas station attendant followed me carrying a gas can and told my Mom that he’d have taken the truck if he’d known how far it was.
After all, I’d told him it was a little ways.
The great fun of a righteous pop bottle rocket war.
Blowing up red ant hills with cherry bombs.
“I had forgotten the name of the knife game.”
Mumbley Peg
The good ole days were not all that good.
Some of us had to walk 5 miles uphill through the snow to catch the bus.
AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW - Brooke-Taylor, Chapman, Cleese, Feldman - Four Yorkshiremen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtSw3daGoo
When it comes to women I have my own personal don’t ask don’t tell policy.
I’ll be as free as I was before kindergarten. —
What a wonderful thought (but mine was 1st grade).
I think I’ll add that to this year’s goals:
Ride more, Whine less — be free as before 1st grade.
Fortunately, my father was a doctor, so he took care of stitching and bone-setting for me and my two brothers. Also for my three sisters, though not needed for them as often.
I remember shooting bottle rockets at each other for fun, yes beer involved. You needed the empty beer bottles to hold the rockets.
Never even thought about going to the hospital. —
Not until I saw Bright RED (Orange) pulsing blood!
So that’s what they meant in Boy Scouts First Aid-—
The kids in the hood I grew up in never did that, only because we didn't think of it.
We didn't have a hospital close buy, but we had a good old family doc "in town" - who stitched me up more than once and dealt with a few other things including a dislocation and another time a fracture... Hey, I survived and the scars are hardly noticeable.
I've taken my boys "in" for stitches etc. a few times too. Everybody lived and everyone was back on speaking terms within a few days. No lawyers, lawsuits, or other nonsense.
the last american generation to know freedom...
sad.
We’ve made great strides in technology and in medicine in more recent times. However, except for these—we were probably better off back then!!!!
A few years ago my Stepfather had a pretty severe infection that started with a cut on his hand and began moving up his arm. He went to the Doctor multiple times and took any number of prescriptions none of which worked. Having grown up in the 1950’s on a farm in upstate NY he finally tried a home remedy.
He took a raw egg, cracked it open, carefully pulled a piece of the thin skin that typically stays attached to the eggshell and laid it on the source of the infection. He repeated this over the course of a few days and the infection was completely gone.
His Doctor was completely amazed.
As it turns out, this “eggshell skin” literally sucked the infection out of his arm as it dried. He told me that he could actually feel it being drawn out of is arm.
Note: His “infection may have been some type of “poisoning”, like lead poison or something but I’m not sure.
Didn’t have street lights where I grew up; the rule from Dad and Mom was “be home before sundown or suffer the consequences”.
“There are FReepers born before 1970??? “
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How’s 1932 sound ???
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We all bailed to the side laughing but Bobby just sat there ... didn't cry (how COULD he .. we were all boys ... !) .. and I ran home and got my big brother who I think held the smirks in check and we got Bobby to his house
His father was an MD with a home office.
12 stiches if I recall correctly
Hmmmm ... yeah !
And then there is reality: From 1930 to 2011, the aveage life expectancy at birth for a white male livng in the United States has gone from 60 to 76 and for a white woman, from 64 to 81; Black men have gone from 47 to about 70, and black women from 49 to 76.
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