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Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/12/2007 11:13:02 AM

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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 ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli.

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 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 can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah.. and 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 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

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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/12/2007 1:20:26 PM

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Ya think we could sue the lawyers of those days, politicians and others for not telling us how unsafe things were and about how deprived we were?

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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/12/2007 3:19:01 PM

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lol life was serene and grand back when

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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/12/2007 6:30:49 PM

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I like that, and it is the truth, and the thing is I am young too. I remember those days....

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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/12/2007 11:51:39 PM

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DLord, good one and all true!
When I was about 12 years old we made a "Tarzan" swing with a big rope we "found" at a construction site.
It was a blast, we'd swing out over the deep wide gully that the tree was on the side of about 20 feet below us.
One day this kid fell off the rope and into the gully below and broke his arm.
That night his old man (a prick) came down and climbed up the tree to cut the rope, fell out of the tree and broke his leg!
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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/13/2007 9:11:31 AM

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good one....and Popeye, your rope tale reminded me of something that happened to me in basic training at ft jackson...

me and my buddy had guard duty, which that night, consisted of riding all over the back woods to check on the shooting ranges......us in a pick up truck, riding around and circling in the parking lots, shining our flashlights out there into the darkness.

on about the 5th range we went to, we got stuck....i mean bogged to the axles stuck.....we did everything 2 19 year old chicks knew to do-got wood to put under the tires, lowered the air pressure etc....nothing worked. so we went to sleep, knowing someone would miss us eventually.....

3ish hours later, we wake to a sgt screaming at us ......we tell him what happened, and he says ill pull you out....he hada short chain, and i said i wouldnt pull down in here in that pick up.....of course he was a sgt, and me a lowly trainee so that went ignored.........within 10 minutes, he was stuck about 6 feet in front of us....

we didnt have radios and cell phones and such then....so he jogs the 10 miles or so to get help, leaving us at the range....he comes back riding in a deuce n a half, with more chains, and that vehicle proceeds to get stuck too.....

by this time, me and my buddy are doing all we can to not crack up laughing........eventually, the biggest wrecker i ever seen came and pulled us all out of that sand.......i got yelled at and given some duty i hated.....but i still remember that as one of the funniest things i ever witnessed.....kinda keystone cops, army style...

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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/13/2007 5:42:24 PM

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If it had been a 1st sgt, it could have been Keystone Tops.

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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/13/2007 9:00:18 PM

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Y'know I read the post about the black and white tv, and now this one. I have to say that you're a bit off base. I'm 20 and I remember all that stuff. None of it really started getting out of hand until the late '90s early 2000s. Gotta specify. I remember having to walk to payphones when the car broke down. I remember school nurses, notes home, detention that led to a spanking when you got home. I remember my father using black vinyl records (which he still has). I remember Nintendo and Atari, AOL 3.1 :-O!!!! I hit my head on a trailer hitch and went to the hospital, no one sued. I watched Sesame Street on a black and white tv, with *gasp* dials! I played with worms, jumped in puddles, had leeches on me from skinny dipping in lakes (my leg). I will say that my sister missed all that fun coming 7 years later, but I'm glad I'm able to remember that.

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RE: Another Goody For The Oldtimers - 7/15/2007 12:14:05 AM

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great memories. Have any more Sir?
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