[chuckyoufarley]

Another Goody For The Oldtimers

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 icepack 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 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 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 when we got home.

I recall the kid 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

chuck..
now cookie monster has to include other healthy foods in his song..... what the fuck... eh?

[redbone]

I hear 'ya Farley! The new thing that really annoys me is "Don't talk to my children, talk to me!". So now I have to send the parents an ingraved invitation telling them to get those little fuckers the hell off my front lawn and quit looking in my fucking windows!
In the old days if an adult had to come to your house you were in deep shit. Now these folks want to argue with you about their kids behavior. The kids check it all out and work it like a job. They all know that most people will not bother trying to find their parents and are too afraid to say anything to them.
I had some Skank tell me that her kids can play wherever they want and she didn't have to keep her kids quiet because that' s what children do. "They make noise!"

Damn Chuck,sounds like you grew up with me.Yer mom ever tell you to go outside and get a switch so she could swat ya,lol?Id come back with one soooo skinny(thought i was gettin over) that it backfired and wicked stung,lol.Just cant win. Peace DWW

[chuckyoufarley]

yeah bro been there done that skinny switch thing

The orange hotwheels racetrack was much worse than the switch imho.

This kids gets off school early one day, 1/2 day due to staff reasons. Anyway he is really getting on his mothers nerves. So she tells him to go across the street where they are constructing a new home to see if he can learn something. A couple hours later he returns and his mother says so boy what did you learn. And he replys well mom I learned to hang a f*ckin door. She says WHAT! And he replys ya u put that mutha up there and if it dont fit just trim a **** hair off and your good to go. So mom tells him to go to his room till dad gets home. Later that evening Dad gets home and ask his son what had happened. When the kid tells him the Dad says boy go get me a switch. The kid tells him to F*ck off says thats the electricians job

[Bigmone357]

Originally Posted by DancesWithWeed

Damn Chuck,sounds like you grew up with me.Yer mom ever tell you to go outside and get a switch so she could swat ya,lol?Id come back with one soooo skinny(thought i was gettin over) that it backfired and wicked stung,lol.Just cant win. Peace DWW

LOL your mom did that 2 lol

The skinny switch was rough, but dad's wide leather belt would make you regret whatever it was you'd done...
How is it that we all lived to adulthood in such perilous times?

Man,thats funny as hell.I swear i was gonna say Hot Wheel track also,lol.I wonder if that was standard Mom material back in the day,lol.Peace DWW

picking blackberries in the hills before breakfast, homemade jams, jellies and cobblers

4th of July celebrations with watermelon seed spitting contests. Flags flying proudly, fireworks.