Well, back then.........

[cato2]

Boy is this true or what . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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 (physical
abuse) here too 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?

[Snowden]

It was a different world then - and reach back another generation to mine, and find even more freedom -- uh, dysfunction.

[JohnRN]

Originally Posted by cato2

Boy is this true or what . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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 (physical
abuse) here too 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?

Don't forget ladies and gentlemen:

It was YOUR generation that raised us

[conlor]

Things weren't so great back then. We have better medical technology and people are surviving things they wouldn't have in the past. Spousal and child abuse weren't reported as much as they are now. Many more people lived in poverty, in the U.S. anyway.

[Jacklou59]

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[Jacklou59]

This Is Something. Today If You Go To Hit Your Kid They Say If You Do I Will Report You And Have You Arrested. Today Anyone Falls On Your Steps Your Have A Law Suit Against You. Raw Meat Not Today Your Lucky If They Eat At Home All Fast Foods Now Don't Walk In .drive To The Window. Better Check Your Order It Will Be Wrong If You Go Home And Then Open It.been There Done That :d :d

[Jacklou59]

This Is Something. Today If You Go To Hit Your Kid They Say If You Do I Will Report You And Have You Arrested. Today Anyone Falls On Your Steps Your Have A Law Suit Against You. Raw Meat Not Today Your Lucky If They Eat At Home All Fast Foods Now Don't Walk In .drive To The Window. Better Check Your Order It Will Be Wrong If You Go Home And Then Open It.been There Done That :d :d