Back when Life was simpler ....

[anamosity]

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 get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat a bite 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 anybody 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 hightop 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 bozo 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, and she could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I wa allowed to be proud of myself.

I can't recall, but we must have been bored 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?

[daemon]

and they say that evolution doesn't exist

[kc6wfs]

Good ones!!!


Dave

[BigJohn]

Excellent observations. We have obviously evolved into a higher social consciousness...yah, right....

[Billy D.]

Ahhh, The good-ole-days.

[Norm]

I remember playing with my old toy tractor, that didn't have any brakes on it when I rode it down from the top of the hay stack and crashed into the side of the barn. I suppose that's why I have this twitch.

[ciso]

Nicely put.

[Tod]

I've been traumatized by this thread...

[CTRider]

Two words: Lawn Darts!

Yep, we had them and managed not to die. I also had a chemistry set with all kinds of real acids and a wood burning kit. Those kiddie tool kits? Real tools - only smaller. The first couple of cars I remember our family owning didn't even have seatbelts.

[Hilts]

Boy, can I relate to everything in that post! Its a wonder I'm even here now to type this

Hilts