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More Reflections On Being A
Boomer |
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Mom
used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same
cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we
didn't get food poisoning.
Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used
to eat a bite raw sometimes, too.
Our school sandwiches were wrapped in waxpaper, in a
brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't
remember anybody
getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the
lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no
beach closures then.
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 gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury
with a pair of hightop Ked's (only worn in gym) 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 gym was not an
option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much
harder than gym.
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. Remember
school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything, and she
could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever.
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 Mom 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 butt spanked again when we got home. I recall Donny
Reynolds 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?
TO ALL OF US WHO
SHARED THIS ERA, WOW... AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T---- SORRY
FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.
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Boomer Stats: |
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The Baby Boom Generation (1946 through 1964) saw a
marked increase in the number of births in North
America.
Here’s how the birthrate rose and fell during the
baby boom years:
1940 - 2,559,000 births per year
1946 - 3,311,000 births per year
1955 - 4,097,000 births per year
1957 - 4,300,000 births per year
1964 - 4,027,000 births per year
1974 - 3,160,000 births per year
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