General Chat

(Under the age of 40? You won't understand.)

My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, yet I can't remember getting e. coli

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

We all took PE ..... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.


We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.

We had 30+ kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!

We all said prayers in school and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

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. We weren't!!

Oh yeah ... and where was the antibiotics and sterilisation 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 building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked.


Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

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 never needed to get into group therapy and/or 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!

The first time I read this I really did chuckle

Good days on the whole GP, plus if someone was being a ..... *searches for suitable word*..... silly billy and getting on your wick, you could give them a slap and that would be the end of it.

As my husbands ex-employer found out when I paid him a very short visit one day

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Hi Kitty, :-) :-)
The first time I received the strap for being naughty I told my mother and she gave me a hiding so I never told her anything after that. :-D :-D ;-)

GP

See, a learning curve :-D :-D :-D

GP - As we were born at brought up in the same place , all this rings true for me, too! :-D :-D ;-)

I can't remember giving you any form of punishment GinN. :-D :-D :-D ;-)

GP

But the headmaster did, GP! :-D :-D I remember him putting iodine on the Chinese burns we'd all given each other - ouch!! :-D :-D ;-)

Our Geography teacher was the only one among all the teachers who made you bend over to administer the strap. I always wondered about him. :-0 :-0 :-0 ;-)

GP

I agree with so much of it and NO I wouldn´t change my upbringing either, the only thing that I am strict about now is my kitchen BUT I do not have coloured boards. I would like to say I have 1 but I have 3 and I use them all the same but I do clean them and I do keep an eye on my fridge, I used to date dot everything for awhile. !!

No harm came to me for climbing trees and falling out of them ! Nor did the slipper harm me

I agree with all of this. I remember when I was little and my brothers climbing on a wall. Mum shouted, if you fall off that wall, don't come crying to me or I will give you something to cry for.lol

When you werte old enough you could ride a moped at 16, any size motorbike at 17 and drive a car after passing yor test as fast as it was safe without worrying about speed cameras.
Traffic wardens hadn't been invented either.

And you knew the Local Bobby, and he knew you and your family,woe betide you if you were caught Scrumping Etc a clip round the ear and another when you got home. :-)

I agree with every word of the posting, well done.

However, we don't know we're born today. Apart from the fact that we would be young again and surrounded by older loved ones, few people would actually swop.

If you don't agree with me, think of the reality of some of the above and all the draw-backs invisible to the rose coloured eye.

Happy days

Makes me wonder how future generations will cope/survive having no sense of danger etc, it's bad enough now IE schools having a 20 mph limit because the children have no road sense because not many walk to school anymore. :-(

"When you were old enough you could ride a moped at 16, any size motorbike at 17 and drive a car after passing yor test as fast as it was safe without worrying about speed cameras. "

But it wasn't safe and serious fatal road accidents were more than twice as high as they are today.Indeed the worst year for fatal road accidents was during the 1930s when relatively few people owned motor transport.

Bristol is in the process of reducing the speed limit to 20 mph on all roads except for a handful of principal routes. Mind you much of the time 20 mph in Bristol is something to dream of.

If someone had said to me in the 1950's that instead of using the telephone box at the end of the street you will sometime in the future carry a small phone in your pocket and be able to phone anyone in the world, I would have said they were bonkers. :-0 :-0 :-0

GP

GP, I passed my driving test in 1998 and my husband bought me my first mobile phone, it was bigger than my pocket but I can't imagine life without one now.
I bought one for my Dad when he was in his 70s it was literally a life saver for him.

Hi ZZzzz,
When they first came out they were the size of a brick but now they are very small.
My daughter persuaded me to buy one in 2005 and I didn't really want one but now I cannot do without it and it has been a godsend at times. :-) :-) :-)

GP

Indeed GP, one time Dad fell over in a shop and they got hold of me because I was the first name in his phone, he put me in as A1 daughter, he ended up in Hospital but ok, another occasion Mum was lost (she had altzimers) luckily the shop she was in knew her so phoned Dads mobile.