Things you did as a kid that your kids will never do
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They will never understand this phrase:Hoss Cartwright couldn't fart right because his pants were too tight.
Get up in the morning, grab some toast on your way out the door, scream byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye.
Join some friends, hop on your bikes, have not a clue where you are going until noon, fly into the house, sit down for some lunch, swallow it as fast as possible...
Run to the door, scream byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye, join up with your friends, hop on your bikes, not having a clue where you are going.
Lose track of time, pedal your azz off to get home in time for dinner,
Drop your bike on the front lawn, slam yourself into the kitchen chair, get told to wash your hands, fly into the bathroom wash your hands (sort of) with the family bar of soap, dry your hands on the family towel and run back to the table...
All while never being asked where are you going?
How was your day....good...what did you do....nothing.... adult conversation continues as if you weren't there....and if you were smart you kept your mouth shut because they forgot you were there and you got to find out what was really happening with "stuff".
Join some friends, hop on your bikes, have not a clue where you are going until noon, fly into the house, sit down for some lunch, swallow it as fast as possible...
Run to the door, scream byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye, join up with your friends, hop on your bikes, not having a clue where you are going.
Lose track of time, pedal your azz off to get home in time for dinner,
Drop your bike on the front lawn, slam yourself into the kitchen chair, get told to wash your hands, fly into the bathroom wash your hands (sort of) with the family bar of soap, dry your hands on the family towel and run back to the table...
All while never being asked where are you going?
How was your day....good...what did you do....nothing.... adult conversation continues as if you weren't there....and if you were smart you kept your mouth shut because they forgot you were there and you got to find out what was really happening with "stuff".
yeah, she never asked I never told...
only time I got into trouble sort of was when we almost burned down the garage playing with matches...
came home, my mum was watching tv in mum's chair still had her apron on, dad is reading a book in dad's chair ...
just made it home by the skin of my teeth before dark because I needed permission from dark on to be out and they had to know where I was...slammed myself onto the couch.
Mum: were you playing with matches after dinner.
Me: no
Mum: don't lie, you know I don't like liars. Were you playing with matches out in the back after dinner.
Me: yeah maybe
Mum: with arms folded turns back to the TV set saying nothing further...
I wait.... my dad glances over the top of his book, says nothing, looks at my mum, goes back to his book.
Nothing
My heartbeat speeds up bangs harder and harder by the second, rings in my ears, the room feels like it might spin away...it gets hotter and hotter by the moment... nothing...I keep stealing looks over at my mum, she continues to watch TV.
Finally after 30 seconds that took 10 years off of my youth... I ask very softly ...why?
Because you almost burned the garage down. The leaves in the crate where you hid the book of matches caught fire. When Jack (neighbour) saw the flames they were two feet high. He used a pail of water.
I am listening and sweating my guts out.
Mum: sometimes you haven't the common sense you were born with. That could have been a disaster. Eyes back to the TV set.
I never ever played with matches again. That was a quiet night in the old homestead let me tell ya.
Now that I have the age (plus) I've come to realize that a lot of those white hairs were me.... ;-)
Gopher, I believe they still sell Coke and Pepsi in glass bottles. I know that I've seen Pepsi for sure in the local Walmart, but I'm not sure if the Coke bottles are all year long like the Pepsi or just during special times of the year (Christmas).
Yes, they still sell Coke in glass bottles - made in Mexico and imported here.
hula hoops:
Chalkboard?? How many have even seen one.
They'll never know the tedium of punishment for some transgression of having to clean one until it's totally black with no smears or smudges, nor the reward of cleaning the brushes, joyously banging them together out the classroom window, creating a enough dust that would, at least in a child's mind, rival the worst of the worst prairie dust storm.
No...
Mimeograph ink stunk. Freshly printed "Ditto" copies were another matter entirely, and a totally different process. My Dad was a school teacher and I got to play with both machines while helping him prepare papers. The mimeograph was a messy thing that used (st)ink pressed through a stencil called onion skin that had been typed or drawn on. The Ditto was a two part thing; the paper that you drew or typed on and a sheet of waxy type paper behind it to imprint a reverse imige on the first sheet. The Ditto machine used methanol to transfer the images onto the copies you made, which, with the wax, left a rather pleasant smell that lased quite a while after the copies were printed. Who didn't love that smell?
On a similar topic, how many kids even know where "cc" came from, or what a "carbon copy" is. I think I still have some carbon paper somewhere, probably near my Smith Corona.
Or:
Know what a darkroom is.
Know what an enlarger is.
Know what developer, stop bath and fixer are.
Know what a ferrotype sheet is.
Know what film is.
Know what actual photography is.
Oh crap, I;m getting depressed now. time to go to bed.
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In Britain all pupils wear uniform and need to look smart at all times.
It's easy to spot what local school a kid comes from by looking at what uniform they are wearing, because each school has its own uniform with its own colour jumpers, blazers, shirts, trousers and skirts (some schools' uniforms are navy blue, some are red, some are maroon etc), its own colour and designs of ties (some schools have stripy ties, some have plain, some have ties emblazoned with the school crest) and, also, the school crest is emblazoned on the front of the jumper and blazer.
Trainers (or sneakers as the North Americans call them) are not allowed to be worn. Pupils have to wear black polished shoes.
I went to Little Lever Secondary and that uniform consisted of, and still consists, of navy blue woollen jumpers, white shirts, navy blue blazers (which you can wear instead of the jumers) navy blue trousers or skirts, and the ties were dark blue stripes, light blue stripes, and white stripes. The school logo, emblazoned on the jumpers and blazers, is an open book with two letters Ls, one on each page.
Smithills School's unform is navy blue trousers or skirts, white shirts and bright red woolly jumpers with a red and black striped tie.
Hayward School's is white shirts with maroon jumpers or blazers, and maroon trousers or skirts. They wear maroon ties with thin white stripes.
One of the irritances of school life was when a kid pea-knotted your tie. They just grabbed your tie, gave it a good yank, and made the knot really small and tight and therefore difficult to undo. And then you got into trouble off the teacher because your tie wasn't on properly.
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i wore a uniform in catholic school.
In Britain all pupils wear uniform and need to look smart at all times.
It's easy to spot what local school a kid comes from by looking at what uniform they are wearing, because each school has its own uniform with its own colour jumpers, blazers, shirts, trousers and skirts (some schools' uniforms are navy blue, some are red, some are maroon etc), its own colour and designs of ties (some schools have stripy ties, some have plain, some have ties emblazoned with the school crest) and, also, the school crest is emblazoned on the front of the jumper and blazer.
Trainers (or sneakers as the North Americans call them) are not allowed to be worn. Pupils have to wear black polished shoes.
I went to Little Lever Secondary and that uniform consisted of, and still consists, of navy blue woollen jumpers, white shirts, navy blue blazers (which you can wear instead of the jumers) navy blue trousers or skirts, and the ties were dark blue stripes, light blue stripes, and white stripes. The school logo, emblazoned on the jumpers and blazers, is an open book with two letters Ls, one on each page.
Smithills School's unform is navy blue trousers or skirts, white shirts and bright red woolly jumpers with a red and black striped tie.
Hayward School's is white shirts with maroon jumpers or blazers, and maroon trousers or skirts. They wear maroon ties with thin white stripes.
One of the irritances of school life was when a kid pea-knotted your tie. They just grabbed your tie, gave it a good yank, and made the knot really small and tight and therefore difficult to undo. And then you got into trouble off the teacher because your tie wasn't on properly.
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Hey goph, I just checked the local Walmart and the Coke bottles are done in Toronto, and the Pepsi bottles are done in...I can't recall, but I do know that they are done in the province of Ontario as well.