[I Buried My Guns]

When I worked in primary education it was accepted as gospel that new teachers tended to get colds more often than normal for the first 3 years of exposure to sticky, filthy children, and then after that they tended to get sick very rarely.

So our grandmas were right. Eat dirt!

[paulycy]

So our grandmas were right. Eat dirt!

Exactly! My grandma from the farm in Nebraska always said that if a kid doesn't eat at least a pound of dirt before they're 5 then they are going to be sickly their whole life. She was right.