"This will take you back"

[newbeliever02072005]

This will take you back!



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 sick because of e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather have gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

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 significant before I was told 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 butt spanked again when we got home

I recall Shmuley Goldberg, 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 amok.

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!

 

[JPPT1974]

Well we used to have no cellphones nor internet.
And we just watched tv.
As well as played cards.
My sister and her soon-to-be hubby were dating at the time.
He would come at our house daily after school.

 

[WannaWitness]

I can remember actually having to get up and change channels on the TV. We are SO pampered, now!!!

 

[WannaWitness]

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Atari was the big thing when we grew up! Remember Pac-Man?

Speaking of Pac-Man..... I had a Pac-Man Fever record (yes, RECORDS!)

 

[Oblivious]

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 sick because of e.coli.

Growing up I ate my share of raw hamburger and cookie dough (yes, with raw egg in it) and I never once got sick.

Another one - Not that wearing a helmet is a bad thing, but I never wore a helmet when riding my bicycle. But as an adult, I do.

 

[Stanfi]

Ok, reading that made me feel old!!

 

[BeautyForAshes]

Yep, that takes me back. I remember in elementary school having THREE recesses - one in the morning, after lunch and one in the afternoon. And we played kickball, would race either other from one end of the playground to the other, swinging as high as you could before jumping out, etc. think nowadays kids only have one recess - and they wonder why they are figet - they need to run off that energy like we did.

Also, does anyone else remember being FORCED to go outside...my parents use to make us go outside and play, saying we needed the exercise (when in reality, I think they just wanted a break from us ).

 

[puppy]

i remember when you were lucky if you found a newsagent open on a saturday morning now the shops are open all day sunday too !

gone are the days when you used to be able to cycle or go walking round the village with your friends...or alone

 

[Veiled Viper]

I played king-of-the-hill on gravel hills,too!!
Then I'd cut my bare foot on broken glass and my Mom would carry me home and put that "monkey-blood" on my cuts.
At school we'd play dodgeball whether we wanted to or not.
Nobody I knew had ADD or ADHD either.
We played outside every chance we could,in the rain and mud until all hours of the night.
If it was cold out,we didn't care.We were still barefoot,wearing a t-shirt.
Around 9 o'clock you could hear all the moms calling their kids in for the night.
It was sweet.
Sometimes we'd have Oreos and milk for dinner.

Ps.My mom had a station wagon and would let us sit on the back gate and hold onto the luggage rack while she drove through our neighborhood.
I don't think cars had seatbelts back then.When were they invented?

 

[BeautyForAshes]

Ps.My mom had a station wagon and would let us sit on the back gate and hold onto the luggage rack while she drove through our neighborhood.
I don't think cars had seatbelts back then.When were they invented?

Remember when you could ride in the back of a pick up? Man, now those were the days....

 

[WannaWitness]

Remember REAL roller skates? I mean the CLASSIC kind, not those "inline" things!!

 

[Oblivious]

Remember REAL roller skates? I mean the CLASSIC kind, not those "inline" things!!

You mean the kind that actually had a brake in a logical place where you can actually stop with them?

 

[WannaWitness]

You mean the kind that actually had a brake in a logical place where you can actually stop with them?

Yep!

 

[HeatherJay]

Remember REAL roller skates? I mean the CLASSIC kind, not those "inline" things!!

Oh man, I LOVED my roller skates. They were white with hot pink wheels...they were awesome. SO much cooler than the rental kind. I thought I was da bomb. And I used to go skating every Saturday with my friends...and couples-skating with cute boys...and trying to balance nachos and a coke while skating across a super slick crowded floor to find a table.

And skating limbo...and skating hokey pokey!

Oh man, I get excited just thinking about all the fun I had on my awesome white and pink skates. *dreamy sigh* For me, those really were the best days.

I continued to skate into my high school years and the 90's...remember when "truckin" was the big thing (sort of like synchronized skating)? But, it was never as good as it was in the 80's though.

 

[Oblivious]

Back before we moved, the husband and I used to go pretty regularly to "adults night" at the roller rink. Anyway, I was surprised how many people still skate wearing the "real" rollerskates. Granted, that's what they rent, but there was alot of people who brought their own. My husband and I were usually in the minority with our rollerblades.

 

[bill'swife]

remember the tennis shoe skates?

 

[JPPT1974]

Also remember the skating rinks?
I used to go there on weekends when I was growing up in Miami!
Loved going there!

 

[sunshiinedays]

As a kid I actually played lawn darts and I was regularly left alone in the front seat of a running car while my dad went into the store.

 

[Veiled Viper]

Without a seatbelt,right?

As a kid I actually played lawn darts and I was regularly left alone in the front seat of a running car while my dad went into the store.

 

[lucypevensie]

I remember my mom giving me pure aspirin when I was sick. Since I had a hard time swallowing the pills she'd disolve the pill in a spoonfull of water - and GULP. *blechh*

The only time we ever locked our house was on Halloween night in case of pranksters (there never were any).

A popular activity with the church youth group was going to someone's house after church on Sunday night. Someone who had a piano. We'd sit around the living room and sing songs. It was called a "singspiration". How lame would that be today?

No one wore seatbelts. Most people left them tucked into the crease between the seat and seatback.

Bike helmets? Heck no!