Guest guest Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 LOL ... God I miss those "bad ol days" roflmao Dori~Lonestar Rose~ <waltzacrosstexaswithme@...> wrote: Note: If you didn't grow up in the U.S., or maybe Canada, this probably won't make much sense. In the U..S., there have been huge changes in thepast 20-40 years in terms of what is considered acceptable ways to raisechildren. My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the samecutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem toget food poisoning. My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it rawsometimes too, but I can't remember getting E-coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead ofa pristine pool (talk about boring), the term cell phone would haveconjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PAsystem. We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair ofhigh top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of havingcross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built inlight reflectors. can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tellus how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PEmust be much harder than gym. Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson by running in thehalls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. Howmuch better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued theschool system. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and the pledgeand staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negativeattention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. I can't understand it.Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn'thave known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of babyaspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles. What anarchaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore ahat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplishsomething before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, PlayStation,Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital cable stations. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through thedenial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each dayabout a mile down the road to some guy's vacant lot, built forts out ofbranches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got tobe the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting usplay on that lot. He should have been locked up for not putting up afence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and aninfrared intruder alarm. Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I gotthat bee sting? I could have been killed! We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacantconstruction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 centbottle of mercurochrome and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's atrip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle ofantibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor forleaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. Wedidn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we gotour butt spanked (physical abuse) here too ... and then we got buttspanked again when we got home. Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids chokeddown the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks(remember why Tonka trucks were made tough... it wasn't so that theycould take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a carwith leaded gas. Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am surethat I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went ontwo week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the dangerthey put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.Summers were spent behind the push lawnmower and I didn't even know thatmowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without anautomatic blade-stop or an auto-drive. How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only psychos.I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his trickson the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know thatshe could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swattedhim for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top itoff, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from adysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed toget into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't evennotice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we survive?LOL!~~~~ *** ~~~ *** ~~~ *** ~~~~ The Being Sick CommunityMessage Archives and Digest Attachment Pictures:-/messagesChat:- Scheduled Daily Chats at /chatBookmarks:-Add a website URL you have found useful./linksPersonal Complaints or problems:-Please contact a moderator email: -owner Subscription Details:-1) Individual email - means that every email sent to the list you receive.2) Daily Digest - sends you 25 messages in one single email for you to browse. 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Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 oh this is SO True!!! We lived in the country, the closest neighbor was about a mile away... We played out side from morning till night, rain or shine... When the sun was straight up we went home to eat lunch... Mom would ask, are you staying out of trouble??? Of course we would all say Yes! We drank milk straight from the cow, no pasturization! Mom would make our butter from the cream... Our canned goods Were canned from the garden... Our Father hunted our meat, we also raised our own chickens, ducks and rabbits for food... Girls were Never seen in pants at school and boys Never wore jeans or t-shirts, and we Didn't have a dress code! It was called curtesy to be properly dressed to get an education!!! There was no improper talking on the school bus or in school, we wouldn't have known what those words were anyways!!! I remember when I was in first grade and we were on the bus, back then there was NO talking while on the bus and the boy behind me pulled my ponytail, I cried out Ouch! and for that response, I was sent to the principles office upon arrival at the school... I was given a stern warning to Never talk out on the school bus again or the next time I would be having the paddle on my little behind!!! I wasn't even allowed to defend myself, it was fact, I did wrong by speaking... So we learned very early in life that Rules were Rules and you were to obey them!!! Thanks for sending this, so many good memories it brought back when I was very young... Because by the age of 9, I had to grow up quickly... ((( Sharing Hugs ))) Helen Note: If you didn't grow up in the U.S., or maybe Canada, this probably won't make much sense. In the U..S., there have been huge changes in thepast 20-40 years in terms of what is considered acceptable ways to raisechildren. My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the samecutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem toget food poisoning. My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it rawsometimes too, but I can't remember getting E-coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead ofa pristine pool (talk about boring), the term cell phone would haveconjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PAsystem. We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair ofhigh top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of havingcross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built inlight reflectors. can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tellus how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PEmust be much harder than gym. Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson by running in thehalls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. Howmuch better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued theschool system. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and the pledgeand staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negativeattention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. I can't understand it.Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn'thave known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of babyaspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles. What anarchaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore ahat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplishsomething before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, PlayStation,Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital cable stations. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through thedenial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each dayabout a mile down the road to some guy's vacant lot, built forts out ofbranches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got tobe the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting usplay on that lot. He should have been locked up for not putting up afence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and aninfrared intruder alarm. Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I gotthat bee sting? I could have been killed! We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacantconstruction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 centbottle of mercurochrome and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's atrip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle ofantibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor forleaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. Wedidn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we gotour butt spanked (physical abuse) here too ... and then we got buttspanked again when we got home. Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids chokeddown the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks(remember why Tonka trucks were made tough... it wasn't so that theycould take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a carwith leaded gas. Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am surethat I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went ontwo week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the dangerthey put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.Summers were spent behind the push lawnmower and I didn't even know thatmowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without anautomatic blade-stop or an auto-drive. How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only psychos.I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his trickson the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know thatshe could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swattedhim for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top itoff, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from adysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed toget into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't evennotice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we survive?LOL! One wordfrees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is,Love! Sophocles Surnames I am following:Mc Intosh/Mac Intosh/Mac k Intosh -- Lambert -- Osterhout -- Spring -- Fauver -- Tilden -- Handy -- Haller -- Leininger -- Beckham -- Godden -- Brown -- -- Barbara -- Losure -- Spade -- Ferris -- -- Chronninger -- Myles -- Weirich -- Shonk -- Inches -- Burditt -- 's -- Frosch/Frozeck -- Turrittin -- Proudfoot/Stoltzfuss -- Mattocks -- Oliver -- Peth -- Etc....angelbear1129@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Amen to that!!! One thing I can do without is outhouses. Port-a-potties aren't much better! One wordfrees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is,Love! Sophocles Surnames I am following:Mc Intosh/Mac Intosh/Mac k Intosh -- Lambert -- Osterhout -- Spring -- Fauver -- Tilden -- Handy -- Haller -- Leininger -- Beckham -- Godden -- Brown -- -- Barbara -- Losure -- Spade -- Ferris -- -- Chronninger -- Myles -- Weirich -- Shonk -- Inches -- Burditt -- 's -- Frosch/Frozeck -- Turrittin -- Proudfoot/Stoltzfuss -- Mattocks -- Oliver -- Peth -- Etc....angelbear1129@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 GOOD JOB!!! HAD MONSTER BROTHERS ALSO!!! BUT THEY USUALLY GOT THEIR JUST REWARD ) One year it snowed quite heavily and my step brother had ambushed my step sister and I with a barrage of snow when we walked outside in our pajamas. (we slept in wet pajamas for what felt like a week) So when he went in to the outhouse, we locked him in. (tee hee) He yelled and yelled. After an hour, we let him out. He never did that again! One wordfrees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is,Love! Sophocles Surnames I am following:Mc Intosh/Mac Intosh/Mac k Intosh -- Lambert -- Osterhout -- Spring -- Fauver -- Tilden -- Handy -- Haller -- Leininger -- Beckham -- Godden -- Brown -- -- Barbara -- Losure -- Spade -- Ferris -- -- Chronninger -- Myles -- Weirich -- Shonk -- Inches -- Burditt -- 's -- Frosch/Frozeck -- Turrittin -- Proudfoot/Stoltzfuss -- Mattocks -- Oliver -- Peth -- Etc....angelbear1129@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 I do that also, town meanng one mile away, to the city is 30, then ex Long Islanders are considered strange! Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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