I wasn't complaining or bragging. It was an hour and a half of fun and an example of the difference between the 50s and today.
"Just funnin' wit ya."
I was thinking of the many times I've seen someone writing about difficult situations when they walked to school; which really is nothing to ridicule, but the snow keeps getting deeper
I wasn't complaining or bragging. It was an hour and a half of fun and an example of the difference between the 50s and today.
"Just funnin' wit ya."
I was thinking of the many times I've seen someone writing about difficult situations when they walked to school; which really is nothing to ridicule, but the snow keeps getting deeper
When we complained about walking in the cold to school, mom would tell us about all 4 of them riding to school on one horse, each clutching the hot just boiled egg my grandmother gave them to keep their hands warm - and for lunch later.
Her story didn't work, we were all envious of how cool it must have been to ride a horse to school.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
When we complained about walking in the cold to school, mom would tell us about all 4 of them riding to school on one horse, each clutching the hot just boiled egg my grandmother gave them to keep their hands warm - and for lunch later.
Her story didn't work, we were all envious of how cool it must have been to ride a horse to school.
Reminds me of our taking our lunch to school wrapped in a dishtowel stuffed into a one-gallon tin Karo syrup bucket. Mom used to leave a tail-end piece of the towel sticking out and push the lid down, but not locking it in, and warning us not to push the lid down all the way, or we couldn't open it. Mom was right. One day, my teacher had to get the janitor to bring a screwdriver and pop the lid.
Telling this story to a group of kids at a school one time elicited the same reaction; how cool it was to take your lunch to school in a syrup pail!
When we complained about walking in the cold to school, mom would tell us about all 4 of them riding to school on one horse, each clutching the hot just boiled egg my grandmother gave them to keep their hands warm - and for lunch later.
Her story didn't work, we were all envious of how cool it must have been to ride a horse to school.
I would have started asking for boiled eggs on cold mornings, too.
... I walked 2 miles to mom's jr high job from my elementary in the 1st and 2nd grade....
I first read that as, "I walked 2 miles to mom's jr high from my elementary in the 1st and 2nd grade," missing the word "job". I was already trying to craft the perfect crack about southerners when I reread it.
In an interview with ABC7, owner Jeremy Salib said about two-dozen high schoolers took armloads of merchandise including candy, chips and beer during the "premeditated, organized" theft.
"Of course, they're gathering -- so many of them -- that I can't stop just one kid, right? It's 24, 25 kids, so it leaves me kind of helpless -- especially with LAPD saying they can't do anything about it," Salib said. https://abc7.com/post/gas-station-owner ... /17399425/
Fairly often there are flip-through articles about things that were normally done 30-40 years ago and are no longer done. They're usually presented with a (really dumb) headline about things that "confuse" young people. Well, I'm sure that a person's parents or grandparents stories about how things were in the past are rarely if ever "confusing" although some would certainly be considered strange. Here's one example of that type of article, and really, if you've seen one you're pretty much seen them all as they all list the same stuff.
Most are always just stuff like using dial phones (gasp!), "appointment TV" with few channels, extensive smoking, etc. Can't you just feel the "confusion"? But one thing is on most of the lists that is confusing - "drinking out of the garden hose." Sure, I've done it - probably most everybody else has at one time or another, but when did it become something that would make people aghast to see somebody drinking from the hose? Is it no longer done? Did hoses become more toxic? Are kids/people accustomed to bottled water just afraid of tap? Do they no longer need to use hose water in the yard because they're always carrying around their Stanley Cup? Do helicopter parents consider hose drinking to be as dangerous as, say, climbing a tree or maybe equivalent to playing stickball in the street? What am I missing here?
... one thing is on most of the lists that is confusing - "drinking out of the garden hose." Sure, I've done it - probably most everybody else has at one time or another, but when did it become something that would make people aghast to see somebody drinking from the hose? Is it no longer done? Did hoses become more toxic? Are kids/people accustomed to bottled water just afraid of tap? Do they no longer need to use hose water in the yard because they're always carrying around their Stanley Cup? Do helicopter parents consider hose drinking to be as dangerous as, say, climbing a tree or maybe equivalent to playing stickball in the street? What am I missing here?
It raises the question - If drinking out of the garden hose is sketchy, do we really want to grow our vegetables or even water the lawns kids play on with that water?
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2. Bacterial Growth
Garden hoses can also harbor bacteria, especially if they have been sitting in the sun or stored improperly. The warm, moist environment is ideal for bacterial growth, potentially leading to stomach illnesses or infections if consumed. Some common bacterial contaminants include:
Salmonella: Can cause severe gastrointestinal illness.
E. coli: A well-known bacterium that can lead to severe food poisoning.
Along with not necessarily knowing what the end of that hose was used for last.
I would have started asking for boiled eggs on cold mornings, too. 
There's a dog wash hose at the dog beach. If I'm thirsty I'll drink.
