Posted on 09/10/2023 7:35:22 PM PDT by DallasBiff
All stand:
“I pledge of allegiance to the UNITED STATES, and to the REPUBLIC,for which it stands, ONE NATION, under GOD, with LIBERTY and Justice for all.”
You may be seated class.
And nickel pay phones
4 digits to call mom at grandmother’s house to come get us at the store.
When I was five, I got sent to my room for something. Looking out the window, I realized that a dime would fit in the screws holding the screen in. I removed the screen and headed out to play. A couple hours later I climbed back in the window, replaced the screen and asked if I could come out of my room.
I never considered that for my kids, because of the abundance of poor drivers on the road today.
My brother found a prosthetic leg trashpicking. He won the all time prize.
I’m 60 and still take a long look at the trash as I go by looking for cool stuff.
Read later.
Got an A on the presentation, the teacher praised my originality.
It was a California public school...1968. Fast forward 4 years later, I had teachers say to my face how "disappointed" they were with my decision to accept a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship.
I was incredulous, I had the most valuable scholarship in my class: allowed me to go to Gonzaga without my parents having to spend a dime.
But, without the genius part.
And Dee Dee.
Jeez, dude, where'd you go to school? Viet Nam?
All my school years there was only one death. Happened to be a friend of mine.
When I was little, my brothers and I were being loud and obnoxious in the back seat of the car.
Mom pulled over and made us walk home (1/2 mile).
She would probably be arrested today.
Lol- kids and families used to be tough- today kids get a scratch and it’s off to the hospitals for surgery and antibiotics lol. Back when we kids used to eat gravel regularly. I watched my brother ride a motocross bike over a small jump, landed wrong, gave it the throttle, and shot across the driveway and hit a rock, and got flung 8nto a tree- his head hit the tree and his body spun around in midair. I thought he was a goner, ran over just as he was picking hi self off the ground, and he said his life flashed before his eyes on impact.
We used to climb birch trees to the top, swi g them back and forth until it bent over to the next tree, and transfer to it- 30 or so feet off the ground... we were always outside doj g something stupid or dangerous.
Are we related?
My mom said the same thing!
My teacher terrified me back in 1956 when she said chewing gum would rot your teeth! I loved chewing bubble gum but after that never touched it for several months. My teeth are very strong and at 76 still have them. Must have been the natural fluoride in the well water on the High Plains.
Back in 1956 my teacher told us mercurochrome was worthless as it did not sting. So we started using merthiolate. Talk about stinging! And Iodine? WOW! Super hot!
But Hexachlorophine was good for you!
Lol- we did too- although looking back, we shoulda at the very least worn safety glasses. I’m sure some kids lost an eye somehwere- we were lucky- everyone survived intact
Some memories of my childhood (late 1960s to mid 1970s) include getting a chemistry set for Christmas when I was 11 or 12. I'm talking a real chemistry set that could blow things up and set things on fire if I didn't follow instructions very carefully. I learned to read instructions carefully!
Or my siblings and I rattling around in the back of the family station wagon on long trips (or the open bed of my uncle's pickup truck). My father actually cut the seat belts out of his cars because they "got in the way of things" and felt that he could vacuum the car seats better without them.
I could go on and on but those are just a couple examples not mentioned here.
[[The 60’s to the 80’s were great to be a kid or raise a kid]]
Absolutely agree- best time to be alive. People,for the most part just lived and let live- today everyone is all up in everyone else’s business and they ain’t happy unless they are making someone’s life miserable.
My America is long gone now sadly! Today’s America sucks big time compared to what we had growing up. I actually wish I had been born in the 30’s so that I would have passed about the 80’s or 90’s- I can’t stand the socialist/marxist garbage going on today. I had hoped Trump cou,d have restored a majority of the greatness we once had, and he did a bit, but not nearly enough because everyone opposed him so vehemently.
I don’t hold out much hope that we can get back to a sane, rational, common sense nation that we were once upon a time
[[...uphill both ways. ]]
No, just one way, going back we had to traverse a wild river, swing from ropes to get across gaps, and fight off wild animals ecause we took another rope... and all without the benefit of shoes as only the rich kids had those.
Remember drive-in theaters? We’d pop-up a grocery sack full of popcorn and take-off. Watched a lot of great westerns like Big Country -Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston - right before he made Ben Hur.
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