Me, too, and some of those things, quqite fondly! Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: "marilyn deweese" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:53 AM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: I remember, do you_.
> > I sure remember all this. > > Marilyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Delma" <[email protected]> > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:05 PM > Subject: [RecipesAndMore] I remember, do you_. > > >> >> >> I remember, do you_. >> Black and White >> (Under age 40? You won't understand.) >> >> You could hardly see for all the snow, >> Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. >> Pull a chair up to the TV set, >> 'Good Night, David Good Night, Chet.' >> 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 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 t he school PA system. >> >> We all t ook 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 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 >> whe >> n we got home. >> >> I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and >> doing >> his tricks on the front step, 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. >> >> Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple >> pleasures are very often the best. >> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
