<>_<>the days of black & white <>_<>
"Good night and God bless ..."
Go all the way to the bottom past the pictures. I think you'll enjoy it. Whoever wrote this must have been our next door neighbor because it totally described my childhood to a 'T.' Hope you enjoy it.
Black and White
Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
You could hardly see anything for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
'Good Night, Veecee.
Good Night, moonshine.'
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with 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 e. Coli. (no hormones, etc.)
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the river or lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring).
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 PE ... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Ked's (only worn in PE) 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 PE was not an option ... even for stupid kids !
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. School nurses (if you had one) wore uniforms and caps.
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 Dad 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 our butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Tutu 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.
I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
Black and White
Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
'Good Night, Veecee.
Good Night, moonshine.'
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 e. Coli. (no hormones, etc.)
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers 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.
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 Dad 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 our butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Tutu 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.
I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!
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