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I Guess I'm Dated!


Another Goody for the Old-timers:

My Mom 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.

> >My Mom 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 e.coli.
> >
> >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 cannot recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
> >Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
> >
> >Oh yeah! In addition, 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 butt 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 butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got
> >home
> >
> >I recall Donny Reynolds 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?
> >
> >LOVE 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