Pickles by Brian Crane for November 27, 2009

Yeah, we survived, didn’t we!!

♫♫♪♫♫♪♪♪♫Those were the days……♫♫♪♫♫♪♪♪♫

And water out of the garden hose!

we swam right after eating also!

And every day, I walked ten miles to get to school … uphill … in a hurricane … maiming bears with my notebook … in both directions …

It’s funny how that “Drink eight bottles of water a day” recommendation didn’t start circulating until after bottled water came out, isn’t it?

(I still drink water out of the garden hose, btw, and nothing bad ever hap—erk!

I drink from the tap. Bottled water is a scam.

We drink from the tap, too. Just remember though, it’s guys our age who started selling the bottled water garbage to the kids so we could make lots of money. I’m cool with helmets, seatbelts and airbags, however.

It is in deed funny to think of how my brother and sister and I used to sleep in the car during long trips when we were 3~5, just laying on the back seat. And it’s not like speeds where any different from now!

Don’t forget no cell phones, mp3 players, internet etc.

Yeah and when you didn’t need umpteen thousand new ridiculous regulations even to breathe. I hear ya FishStix.

Same BobMcK… :)

EVIAN …..

spelled backwards = NAIVE

@Proginoskes

actually, it was 8 glasses of water a day, and that came out when I was a little girl in the 60’s

I remember riding my bike down a steep hill, no helmet of course………and standing on the seat with my right leg out like a skater!

I used to run with scissors, too…

In New Orleans, you only drink the tap water if you have a death wish. If you leave a glass of water sitting for half an hour, stuff settles to the bottom! I have one of those filter pitcher things.

i love all the comments

And we handled mercury in high school lab. But we definitely got our immunizations from the school nurse or public health department. Our parents remembered losing siblings to scarlet fever, smallpox, and other childhood illnesses. And we were all afraid of polio.

I remember riding the horse trails on my Honda 50cc step-through scooter without a helmet, never mind a bicycle…

ditto prosperos777

My little brother used to stand on the hump in the floor of the back seat…

Remember when the back window ledge in those old mercurys was big enough for a child to sleep in? That was my spot on several family trips, and I loved drifting off to sleep while watching the stars through that big back window.