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bloody-orc · 31st March 2006, 11:46 AM

Gotta Be Over 30 to Understand

Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning.

My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink 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 played sport, and also did PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop runners (only worn in the gym or the sports ground) 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 sport was not an option.... even for stupid kids! There were not many fat kids.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, 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 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 castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum 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 hair ruffled and got told to get back out there! Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mum calls the Solicitor to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't misbehave at the mate's house either, because if we did, we got our bum smacked there, and then we got bum belted again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front veranda, just before he fell off. Little did his Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a yobbo.

It was a neighbourhood 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 (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best!

The Mad Professor · 1st April 2006, 08:03 PM

ahhh golden days , up at dawn and out the door on a saturday morning, sandwiches and a bottle of orange squash from mother, air rifle cunningly disguised in a fishing rod bag ,buiding dens in the woods , wading in brooks , wellies full of water , riding down hill foot paths that a mountain goat would have some trouble with on a bicycle ill suited to the task... a time when the local bobby really did know your name and where you lived...

Dr.EM · 1st April 2006, 08:41 PM

And for that matter, when there WAS a local Bobby I would have thought.

gerty · 1st April 2006, 10:04 PM

We used to walk the path from Al's store to the McKinstrey farm. The farm hands would drink their Coke and drop the empty bottles on the path. There was a 2 cent deposit on each bottle, we would gather as many as we could find and buy BBs and a candy bar to take with us to the hills..(circa 1959)...

**Nigel Goodwin** · 2nd April 2006, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr.EM

And for that matter, when there WAS a local Bobby I would have thought.

I grew up in a small Derbyshire village called Birchover, we didn't have a local village bobby, but the one from Winster (a larger village a couple of miles away) used to cycle to Birchover for 7:00PM one or two nights a week, ring from the call box to prove he'd made it, then cycle back.

That was the total police presence when I was a kid :lol:

Knowing exactly what day and time the policeman would be there made it VERY difficult to get caught doing anything - unless you were incredibly dtupid! :roll:

31st March 2006, 11:46 AM	(permalink)
bloody-orc Experienced Member	Sigh... Gotta Be Over 30 to Understand Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning. My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink 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 played sport, and also did PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop runners (only worn in the gym or the sports ground) 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 sport was not an option.... even for stupid kids! There were not many fat kids. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, 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 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 castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mum 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 hair ruffled and got told to get back out there! Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mum calls the Solicitor to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. We didn't misbehave at the mate's house either, because if we did, we got our bum smacked there, and then we got bum belted again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front veranda, just before he fell off. Little did his Mum know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a yobbo. It was a neighbourhood 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 (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best! __________________ Need Help? Press F1 If that doesn\'t help you, ask me... I might know better.

1st April 2006, 08:03 PM	(permalink)
The Mad Professor Experienced Member	ahhh golden days , up at dawn and out the door on a saturday morning, sandwiches and a bottle of orange squash from mother, air rifle cunningly disguised in a fishing rod bag ,buiding dens in the woods , wading in brooks , wellies full of water , riding down hill foot paths that a mountain goat would have some trouble with on a bicycle ill suited to the task... a time when the local bobby really did know your name and where you lived... __________________ It may seem like a good idea at the time , but never stir your cold coffee with a soldering iron.

1st April 2006, 08:41 PM	(permalink)
Dr.EM Experienced Member	And for that matter, when there WAS a local Bobby I would have thought. __________________ Angry!? I'm absolutely electrolytic! Will have to make do with myspace now I guess...

1st April 2006, 10:04 PM	(permalink)
gerty Experienced Member	We used to walk the path from Al's store to the McKinstrey farm. The farm hands would drink their Coke and drop the empty bottles on the path. There was a 2 cent deposit on each bottle, we would gather as many as we could find and buy BBs and a candy bar to take with us to the hills..(circa 1959)... __________________ gerty

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