Can the Adults Please Smoke? 18 and life to go- Page 8

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 8:49am

Another Goody For The Old timers

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 ecoli.


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 inju ry 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 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 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

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:03am

What a life!

Good f*ckin' Morning!

[soapguy17]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:03am

Shira, uh oh.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:04am

I'm tired and cranky, can you tell?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:05am

Now here's a face to brighten everyones day..can you believe how big Charlie's got?

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:07am

OMG! So cute!!

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:07am

Okay, I wasn't cranky for 2 seconds. What a FACE!

[mominator]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:11am

"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."

Mercurochrome, didn't sting? like heck!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:12am

here's another one...

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:13am

He's so cute!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:15am

Isn't he Shira....I can't believe how big he got.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:16am

Great hair, too!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:18am

Funny...his grandmother said that his Dad had the same hair as a kid..but it wasn't in style then...lol

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:20am

LOL. He's adorable.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:23am

Awwww. . that's adorable.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:30am

Whee. I finished the paper I got up early to write. I wish I could go back to sleep now!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:31am

Hopefully you're in a better mood now CRANKY !!!

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:34am

:-P

It will take a good bit of coffee, petting some stranger's dog, and an assurance that I hit the gym, at least for a 1/2 hour!

[soapguy17]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:38am

Ha Ha!

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 9:41am

Very cute, Boobsy.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:03am

I just got a call to go in for a job interview! I like what I'm doing now, but this pay almost twice as much and I would work long shifts when I was able to instead of working everyday. I thinking of looking into it.

Updated On: 10/15/07 at 10:03 AM

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:04am

That could be interesting. Go for it!

[soapguy17]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:05am

I'm going to. It's going to be pretty impossible to work here when I start school in January.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:06am

It's important to look to the future.

Ooh, I see the future. It's me being late for class! Ciao!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:08am

Morning adults.