You Can't Believe You Made It to another Christmas!

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[muggs]

Great Post!! Boy, I can identify with this, except for eating worms

Yeah, that was a guy thing, I didn't do that either. Yuck!

[B4Ranch]

I remember taking my .22 to school with me on Fridays for target shooting after school. The only requirement was the bolt had to be open on school grounds. Ammo was in our pockets.

[Jhoffa_]

You Can't Believe You Made It to another Christmas!

Correction: I can't believe I made it through another Christmas.

I have never been so glad to see a holiday pass in my life.

[Flipyaforreal]

LOLOL, I hear ya and thank you, after today, I needed that!

And ditto to those about the worms (earthworms, thank you) and staying out exploring all day until the sun went down and street lights came on. Once, at age seven, I stupidly threw a glass bottle and it broke in the apartment parking lot. Our neighbor made me pick it up right there, I cut the bloody heck out of my hand, bled all the way home and while my mother was pissed at the nieghbor (and me), she didn't SUE! ....ahhh...the good ole days ;)

[Linda]

There goes my Christmas dinner! gag! are you serious?

[Uncle George]

We ate the worms in an apple easly but the earthworms were gritty with sand inside and we never tried them again.

[joyful1]

I believe this will be the last for the planet Earth.

[Petronski]

We drank water straight from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.

Don't forget to let it run for a while before drinking it, or it would be warm and 'hose-flavored.' Ewww!

[Eala]

Remember [...] you could skateboard down a fast hill without breaking your butt?

I remember when the things were called "skateboards" were nothing more than a board with roller-skates nailed on. (Well, I don't remember what they were called at the time, but I quite remember when they appeared on the scene.)

[Eala]

>We drank water straight from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.
Don't forget to let it run for a while before drinking it, or it would be warm and 'hose-flavored.' Ewww!

Ewww? That was a special flavor!

[tubebender]

Memories...was born in 33 and survived the depression (it did shape my life) didn't have running water till 46 and then it was in the pumphouse. Sears catalog for TP in the outhouse. I set up my chemistry set underneath the rack that held the 55 gal drums of gas? Most wanted gift was a Red Rider BB gun or any Cap gun. Still got one of them plus my erector set I got in 46. I had use of the family 22 single shot at a very early age.(still have that also) My only real friend was PRINCE the best damn dog ever. We would go for miles in the sloughs of western Fresno County shooting bullfrogs for dinner. BTW...I was born with Scoliosis and cried myself to sleep every nite for years feeling sorry for myself. God has blessed me many times over.

[Petronski]

BTW...I was born with Scoliosis and cried myself to sleep every nite for years feeling sorry for myself.

Well God bless you! You started out with a definite disadvantage, and fell victim to a poor attitude about it, and still turned out great. Merry Christmastime.

[Paulus Invictus]

And our parents left us pretty much alone in hopes we would learn some of life's harder lessons.Most parents made the rules and we kept them. When we got sick, we got home remedies and saw the doctors only when it was critically necessary.

In school, the teachers were really in charge and we wouldn't think of breaking their rules. The punishment was too severe. Being sent to the vice principal was the worst thing one could imagine. Kids these days are wimps, the teachers are too, PC rules all and the gummint is far too involved.

[B4Ranch]

Of course I am. Two worms, one at a time. All Clark and Lewis Survivors Club members instantly recognize each other by the grin when the subject is brought up. You will too. Swimming naked in the creek, climbing trees, using axes and hatchets, building teepees with hay tarps, setting fire to sticks and waving them around after sunset is important stuff to pre-teens and teenagers.

At ten years old, a new girl named Marianne, ate four of them just to be allowed to play with us guys for the summer. She was allowed to keep her panties on when we went swimming in the river. In school, her association with us guys made life protected and fun for her. About two or three times a year we all get a card from her with the latest on the kids, grandkids and her hubby.

[B4Ranch]

Even in my old neighborhood, the marshes that we used to hang out in are now "off limits."

I'll bet you a lunch that there is still a group of kids who know every inch of those marshes. Where the turtles hang out on a windy, sunny day and where they are on just a sunny day. Where the biggest catfish are....all those important things, you know what I mean.

[B4Ranch]

I almost got kicked out of our house for making fire crackers. Scared Mom so bad she dropped a box of eggs in the kitchen and made me clean them up. Being down in the basement didn't offer any protection whatsoever! LOL

[B4Ranch]

Skateboard were after my time. We had roller skates and ice skates. The basement floor was concrete, that's where I learned to use roller skates.

[B4Ranch]

Remember the two, three and four party lines where the women would use them as chat lines?

[B4Ranch]

Drinking the water in the creeks never made any of us sick that I can recall. Storing snowballs in the freezer never seemed to work for me. No idea what I did wrong. They always turned into ice balls.

[chnsmok]

Remember our phone "number" as 2 shorts and a long. Anyone else?