Under age 40? You won't understand

[brnidokiegurl 1]

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.' Good Night, Charlie!!!!!!!

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 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 c an'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 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?

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.

life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.

[Y's_habibitk 2]

I didnt even read it, cuzz..well, you told me I wouldnt understand

lol

[MissStacey 1]

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Excellent!

[luckytxn 2,265]

Thank God them days are long gone.

[panamania79 2]

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.' Good Night, Charlie!!!!!!!

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 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 c an'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 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?

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.

life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.

I understood it and I'm only "pushing 40."

[Jenn! 918]

Hmmmm, hasn't life expectancy increased since the 60's?

[Bootylicious!! 2]

I'm only 30 and I understood every bit of it.