Leave hyper sensitive Americans alone! Just leave them alone myeeaahhhhhhh!
Posted on 04/22/2015 11:57:14 AM PDT by Duke C.
[snip]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.
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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 Phys Ed ..... And risked permanent injury with a pair of PF Flyers 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 paddle for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honor & respect those older than us. We had 40 kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do math and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter.
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 Netflix. We weren't!!
Oh yeah ... And where was the antibiotics and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? Could I have been killed!
We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mom 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 mom 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?
Don’t forget the cannonball dive from the high diving board at the public pool.
Those diving boards are no longer there.
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I’d hate to see one of these many kids addicted to computer games throw a baseball.
They’d throw like the president.
We did just fine with BB-guns ... no wussy helmets on bikes ... rope swings ... being home alone while the parents worked ... playing in the park without an adult and MANY other things that make todays wussfied generation cringe. We did especially well without over bearing and way over protective helicopter parents and government.
” no beach closures then.”
Bwaaaa! Must not be from the Cleveland area! Every newscast gave the E.Coli count, and told which beaches were “safe!”
Leave hyper sensitive Americans alone! Just leave them alone myeeaahhhhhhh!
But, we did wait an hour before swimming after lunch...
I rode to school in a Chevy Corvair. And I survived.
Iodine is for sissies. We had Mercurochrome.
Bkmrk.
Oh yeah baby! Also doing Jack Knives. I used to go to a swim club with a small fake lake and they had a
I have sometimes thought about our lunches and the lack of refrigeration.
I grew up in Houston, and partly before air conditioning, and your school lunch and refrigeration never came up, and the variety of home cooked food and sandwiches was pretty wide.
Cold chicken used to be a common lunch food, and what about the workmen with their lunch boxes, working outdoors in 1960 Texas, or anytime and anywhere before the recent years?
And we knew who the queers were and how to avoid them just like any other daily hazard.
Walking home from kindergarten alone. Also, I never knew anyone much less a kid who had a counselor or a therapist. Until I was about a junior in college I had never heard of same sex attraction. I could go on and on.
I thought Mercurochrome had less sting than Iodine. Please don’t let me believe my Mother lied to me.
And when we were bullied, we eventually got tired of it and fought back. We may not have won the battle but the bully looked for easier prey after that.
Nah...tough kids got Iodine. It stung like crazy. Mercurochrome was for wussies. It didn't sting at all.
Can you imagine seeing a kid....ANY kid walking around in shorts, Keds with big red patches of Mercurochrome on each knee? They'd look like alien beings. Sure would make a good Halloween costume.
Mercurochrome is for sissies. We had hydrogen peroxide.
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