Heart of the City by Steenz for January 03, 2012

That doesn’t mean DDT, Chlordane, Agent Orange, etc., etc., weren’t dangerous. “Better living through chemistry.” Uh-huh.

You’d think going to school only part-time was a bad thing. . ..

…in the snow, uphill both ways, backwards, hopping on one foot, while doing her homework with a fingernail clipping on a shingle. Yep, been there, done that.

That’s right Heart. We oldsters will let you know what trouble was. You’ve think you got it bad, why I remember when…..

… the only remote for the TV was me. Dad’d slap me upside the head with the channel number. Which was ok until UHF came along. Had a bunch of concussions that year. At least I think it was concussions, the closest hospital was 50 miles away and the horse…

I’m confused about the remote. Why would the batteries falling out cause it to need reprogramming? Whenever batteries die or fall out of my remotes, I just put new ones in and they work just like before.

Here’s more information on DDT and malaria that’s worth reading: http://membracid.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/ddt-junk-science-malaria-and-the-attack-on-rachel-carson/

That’s nothing. My family couldn’t afford shoes. I had to wear gloves and walk to school on my hands.

Jnite, the batteries falling out don’t effect anything other than operation of the remote. All those settings remain the same. The batteries simply power the remote.

As my grandfather used to say, “Things ain’t like they used to be but, then,they never was.”

When I was a kid TV did not exist. We just had radio. My favorite program was “I Love a Mystery”. The mental images it invoked were more vivid than any TV could muster. My first TV remote didn’t need batteries, just a long wire.

The first baseball game I saw in color was the first game I saw live.

My parents did not get a color TV until the early 80s and only after the old black and white set had died.

Not so great. It would have been easier to walk through a blizzard without shoes…

A universal remote (which you need to operate a TV, VCR and DVD with one remote) needs to have a three-digit number punched in for each appliance to “reprogram” it. Drama queenage explains the rest of the outburst!

Those days were anything but “great” at our house. Yes, my mom was home with the kids (couldn’t even drive) but she was miserable (and so were we as a result). My dad worked long hours and came home so late at night that there are big chunks of time that I cannot even remember seeing him because we were already in bed when he got home at night. The glamorization of the 50’s is garbage.

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