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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
