Wolv Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 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 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 ice pack 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 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, 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 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 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonorator Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 you clearly are not well. let me recommend some good antidepressants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolv Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) you clearly are not well. let me recommend some good antidepressants. 1275381[/snapback] lol Came from an email. Wouldn't be surprised if some of you have seen it in an inbox recently. Still, I appreciate the days when common sense was the rule, not the exception. Edited January 19, 2006 by Wolv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhippens Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 i've seen these before and they are pretty good. i'm not even that old and i remember how i grew up and how my younger cousins are growing up now. my mom probably could've made a lot of money in suits if she was like the parents today. i probably would've cost her the same amount in suits against me doing what boys do when they are young. we raised a lot of hell, got slapped across the butt if we got caught, had to do chores (not for money, because she said so), broke stuff, got beat up, beat up others, buit forts in the swamp, etc. that's what kids do....uh, no, that's what kids should do. i will say that i grew up with nintendo and computers, but i was also limited. my mom kicked my friends and i out of the house if we sat in front of that thing too long. sometimes i say that i hope my kids don't get in as much trouble as i did. but maybe i should say, i only hope i can be as good of a parent as my mom was when she let me get in trouble just enough to learn lessons but still have fun being a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 lol Came from an email. Wouldn't be surprised if some of you have seen it in an inbox recently. Still, I appreciate the days when common sense was the rule, not the exception. 1275398[/snapback] I've gotten it several times, and Rhip I AM old enuff to remember those and more. Mercurochrome............. That stuff is toxic waste now, i'm sure. How about drawing salve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 From September Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Indeed times are way different. If I was starting over I'm not sure that I would even consider bringing children into this world. I love my kids to death but they don't have a tenth of the life that I had growing up. It's sad, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 How about drawing salve? 1275453[/snapback] When I was a kid I used to go to a doctor that would prescibe salve for everything. We always had salve in the house. Do they even make that stuff anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggieFries Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 When I was a kid I used to go to a doctor that would prescibe salve for everything. We always had salve in the house. Do they even make that stuff anymore? 1275476[/snapback] Umm, what is is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big F'n Dave Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Mercurochrome............. That stuff is toxic waste now, i'm sure. 1275453[/snapback] Was that Monkey Blood? Or was it Merthiolate? One of those burned like a bassturd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Umm, what is is? 1275480[/snapback] It was a cream that came in a little round thing that looked sort of like a copenhagen container. You just rubbed it on whatever the problem was. I think you could have rubbed this stuff on a brain tumor and been okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 When I was a kid I used to go to a doctor that would prescibe salve for everything. We always had salve in the house. Do they even make that stuff anymore? 1275476[/snapback] Yeah they do and it works. I had a boil, I won't say where, but it was tough sitting down. After 2 days of suffering I went to the drug store, told the pharmacist I had a boil, and she immediately sent me to the aisle w/ drawing salve. One application and the next day I swear it erupted and the pain was gone. I think you can also seal a crack in an asphalt driveway w/ that stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Was that Monkey Blood? Or was it Merthiolate? One of those burned like a bassturd. 1275487[/snapback] Merthiolate was the one that burned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolv Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) I remember an antiseptic in a spray can. That burned like hell too... Edited January 19, 2006 by Wolv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I remember an antiseptic in a spray can. That burned like hell too... 1275521[/snapback] Bactine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning Linguist Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) Was that Monkey Blood? Or was it Merthiolate? One of those burned like a bassturd. 1275487[/snapback] Mercurochrome and Methiolate, that brings back memories. My mom swears to this day they can cure anything, even cancer! I would go to school at least twice a week with the red stains all over me! Bactine used to sting like a be-hotch too. anybodys gradma ever spoon feed them cod liver oil? i can still taste it... Edited January 19, 2006 by Cunning Linguist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I had many a scraped elbow soaking in very warm water with Epsom salt dissolved in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning Linguist Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 When I was a kid I used to go to a doctor that would prescibe salve for everything. We always had salve in the house. Do they even make that stuff anymore? 1275476[/snapback] i rember one called Ungment or something. It was even referred to in the movie Fargo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 i rember one called Ungment or something. It was even referred to in the movie Fargo. 1275538[/snapback] Unguentine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big F'n Dave Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 i rember one called Ungment or something. It was even referred to in the movie Fargo. 1275538[/snapback] Unguntine, I believe. For burns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 . How about drawing salve? 1275453[/snapback] Grandma had this stuff called "Black Salve" i think....she would want to put it on anything that hurt ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Bactine used to sting like a be-hotch too. 1275534[/snapback] to much of that could be considered Child Abuse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Grandma had this stuff called "Black Salve" i think....she would want to put it on anything that hurt ya 1275550[/snapback] Same stuff. My GM used it us to remove deep wood spinters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning Linguist Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Unguentine. 1275547[/snapback] Unguntine, I believe. For burns. 1275548[/snapback] Thats the one to much of that could be considered Child Abuse 1275554[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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