Pretty much sums up the majority of us here....
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totally agree.. pretty much sums up my childhood with the exception of no attempted kidnapping. :-)
Need to add carried a pocket knife daily after dad gave it to you at 6 years old, carried a pack of matches regularly before age ten and learned hitch hiking as basic transportation at age 13. My sister was kidnapped hitchiking and escaped by faking asthma attack. She later testified at the trial of the two time murderer who she escaped.
Wow! That’s one heck of a story! Praise God she was smart.
Woah! Glad your sis was smart enough to outwit a criminal. My granny used to warn me about hitch hiking (I was 10) Anyway, she said "the wrong person could pick you up and you could wind up a sex slave in another country" I thought she was way out there saying stuff like that. Now I know.
God bless your granny, and all of our grannies. They knew stuff.
Amen to that
One of the biggest personal "awakenings" I've had realized recently is the dystopian pocket knife rules in schools. Pocket knives were vilified, even through high school. We were taught that if our friends brought one in, they were dangerous and we needed to report them.
And, as a kid, you just accept that. Now, years later, carrying a pocket knife every day and not thinking twice about it, I look back and realize how insane that is.
Children should be taught knife safety and should be carrying knives.
I got caught carving my initials on a table in science class while in High School. I caught hell for the carving part, but I didn't hear a word about having a knife.
We used to play mumbly peg in middle school during recess. And the "yard duty" teacher would often be the referee.
As it should be.
Guess it depends on what time period. When I was high school the guys had rifles in back window of their truck during hunting season. If they didn’t care about the guns sure didn’t care about a pocket knife. When my grandfather died I probably found at least fifteen pocket knives😆 I’ve been to many concerts on the east coast. About five years ago I saw Chris Stapleton in Kentucky. When we came out the tables were littered with pocket knives. You knew you were in the country where people know how to survive.
It is crazy how fast things changes.
I Britain a proud boy is doing 20 for carrying a pocket knife. He used it for his fingernails it's the one with the file and baby scissors. Yes it has a small 2 inch blade used to cut open boxes. He was arrested ( never even used it) and was charged with concealing a deadly weapon. He was found guilty of the charge and serving time for it. Ridiculous.
That's a shame,we used to have laws against switchblades,here in oklahoma. Then we remembered it's perfectly legal to carry loaded guns.......
Kidnappers would have only received a thank you note if they grabbed me. I think the rest is accurate though. Coal oil from a lamp on a dirty rag was our go to antiseptic.
campho phenique...never see the stuff anymore. Just like these days, I almost don't feel like I've accomplished anything that day unless I have at least some minor cuts and scrapes on my arms/legs/knuckles.
Remember merthiolate?
AKA thermerisol
It is still used for burn patients.
It kills Californians instantly
I like to keep some around.
remember the Outhouses and magazine/newspaper toilet paper? Those were the Days
Sears or Montgomery ward catalogs in my granddads outhouse— “slop pot” under the bed
We had those at church. A four hole masterpiece. Talk about a close congregation. Fortunately we had indoor plumbing at home.
I went to a church that had one of those, too!
OMG the toys that we could dream of....That truly is Nostalgia
To be honest,I don't miss the shithouses.
not at all
I would feel sorry for anyone that tried to kidnap me or my brother. We ran around with knives and BB guns constantly. We would have declared open war on anyone who came after us. Down on the farm at 10+(12 for bro) years old half the time we had a 22 for killing snakes. GL with that.
The weirdos were to scared to try grabbing us. They knew we knew how to kick and scream
You got that right!!!