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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
get food
poisoning.
My Mom
used to
defrost
hamburger
on the
counter
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
took
gym, not
PE...and
risked
permanent
injury
with a
pair of
hightop
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 the
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,
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
279
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
our 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.
tee hee!
Author
Unknown
but
definitely
over 40!
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