Old things youngins might like to know

[BeverlyAnn]

Children back then could actually earn some money from finding cans and bottles, and taking them to the corner store for the deposits. My adoptive mom would have a cow, since I was not allowed to have any money, and it was hard to explain how I got a Hershey bar.
We actually did fairly well for kids locked out of the house on hot summer days.

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We used to collect the bottles from along side the road and walk up to the corner store. We could get a Coke for 5 cents and a candy bar for another 5 cents.  Tax didn't start until 15 cents back then so we didn't have to worry about that.  And of we were really lucky and could come up with 50 cents, we could walk uptown (about 2 miles) to the hardware store and buy a box of .22 ammunition.  Then spend the afternoon plinking at tin cans.  That was when we were around 8 years old and yes it was quite common for kids to own a .22 rifle.

[Claire]

No one ever believes me when I tell this story.
In my high school we had swimming. No one was allowed to bring in swimsuits. The girls had them provided. My sisters told me there was a mad rush to get one in your size and if there wasn't one, you made do with whatever you could get. Too big or too small. You got what you could get.
Bad as that was, the boys had no suits and had to swim naked. I'm sure it was distressing enough for most students, but if you had dysphoria issues...
I liked swimming before high school.
I've no idea if any other school did that.
Can you imagine something like that even being allowed? Ever?


Claire -

[tgirlamg]

No one ever believes me when I tell this story.
In my high school we had swimming. No one was allowed to bring in swimsuits. The girls had them provided. My sisters told me there was a mad rush to get one in your size and if there wasn't one, you made do with whatever you could get. Too big or too small. You got what you could get.
Bad as that was, the boys had no suits and had to swim naked. I'm sure it was distressing enough for most students, but if you had dysphoria issues...
I liked swimming before high school.
I've no idea if any other school did that.
Can you imagine something like that even being allowed? Ever?


Claire -

Good Lord Claire!!!... Terrible! ☹️

[Claire]

Good Lord Claire!!!... Terrible! ☹️

I had a horrible rash one time (it left permanent scars). I was soooo relieved I didn't have to swim.


Claire -

[tgirlamg]

I had a horrible rash one time (it left permanent scars). I was soooo relieved I didn't have to swim.


Claire -

You know things are bad when a horrible rash is a wonderful and welcome event!!!

I would think the scars from a policy like that, would be even more permanent than the ones from the rash!!!

Hugs!!!

Ashley 😀❤️🌻

[Lady Sarah]

A sign of the times:

They used to serve whole milk for school lunches. When they started giving kids an option of the whole milk or 2%, they overwhelmingly chose the 2%. This had nothing to do with healthy choices. The problem was that the whole milk had HOMO printed on the cartons.

You can't make up stuff like that.

[Roll]

A sign of the times:

They used to serve whole milk for school lunches. When they started giving kids an option of the whole milk or 2%, they overwhelmingly chose the 2%. This had nothing to do with healthy choices. The problem was that the whole milk had HOMO printed on the cartons.

You can't make up stuff like that.

To be fair, studies have shown that drinking whole milk does have a correlation with being homosapien.

[Cassi]

To be fair, studies have shown that drinking whole milk does have a correlation with being homosapien.

Geez, I thought everyone knew that whole milk makes you Homosapien, 2% makes you homosexual, 1% makes you trans and non-fat makes you boring

And I'm not even going to say what strawberry and chocolate milk do.

[Jessica]

When I was a child learning math, we used abacus's for ciphering.  Honest, no lie.

[Jessica]

No one ever believes me when I tell this story.
In my high school we had swimming. No one was allowed to bring in swimsuits. The girls had them provided. My sisters told me there was a mad rush to get one in your size and if there wasn't one, you made do with whatever you could get. Too big or too small. You got what you could get.
Bad as that was, the boys had no suits and had to swim naked. I'm sure it was distressing enough for most students, but if you had dysphoria issues...
I liked swimming before high school.
I've no idea if any other school did that.
Can you imagine something like that even being allowed? Ever?


Claire -

I believe they only stopped that practice in the Chicago school district in the 70's

[ChrissyRyan]

Geez, I thought everyone knew that whole milk makes you Homosapien, 2% makes you homosexual, 1% makes you trans and non-fat makes you boring

And I'm not even going to say what strawberry and chocolate milk do.

Does using "half and half" (creamer for coffee) then possibly make one gender fluid or non-binary?

[Cassi]

Does using "half and half" (creamer for coffee) then possibly make one gender fluid or non-binary?

I think so.  And now that you mention it, there are a lot of those creamers that may be creating others that we're not even aware of.  BEWARE!!!!  THE MILKMAN COMETH!!!!!

[Lady Sarah]

Does using "half and half" (creamer for coffee) then possibly make one gender fluid or non-binary?

Then what does cheese do?

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[Roll]

Then what does cheese do?

Taste delicious. Other than that not a whole lot.

[TonyaW]

Then what does cheese do?

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Make everything better

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[Cassi]

Then what does cheese do?

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Good question.  I don't know.  I think it's like the strawberry and chocolate milk, above my pay grade to know

[steph2.0]

Then what does cheese do?

Uh, well I know what happens when you cut the cheese. Everybody moves away from you on the Group W bench.

[Cassi]

Uh, well I know what happens when you cut the cheese. Everybody moves away from you on the Group W bench.

How about sawing it?

[Julia1996]

When I was a child learning math, we used abacus's for ciphering.  Honest, no lie.

Abacus? Ciphering? Ok, what are those?

[Julia1996]

No one ever believes me when I tell this story.
In my high school we had swimming. No one was allowed to bring in swimsuits. The girls had them provided. My sisters told me there was a mad rush to get one in your size and if there wasn't one, you made do with whatever you could get. Too big or too small. You got what you could get.
Bad as that was, the boys had no suits and had to swim naked. I'm sure it was distressing enough for most students, but if you had dysphoria issues...
I liked swimming before high school.
I've no idea if any other school did that.
Can you imagine something like that even being allowed? Ever?


Claire -

I would have just failed. Naked at school? Oh no no no no! Wouldn't ever happen with me. And people get so stressed over a trans person in the locker room.