[Singles] Fw: Fwd: BLACK AND WHITE TV

Sun Mar 3 09:04:26 CST 2013


From: Dennis Smith 
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 7:31 AM
To: rbeggs3 at austin.rr.com ; adlesperger15 at msn.com ; WEBEZAZZY at aol.com ; sanbob4651 at sbcglobal.net ; kjakeway at zianet.com ; pmatt710 at gmail.com ; rejessee at gmail.com 
Subject: Fwd: BLACK AND WHITE TV


Sent: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 10:05 pm
Subject: Fw: Fwd: BLACK AND WHITE TV


: FW: BLACK AND WHITE TV

  
                     This one is for all us who actually watched a black and white TV.    
                    This was the life!!
                     
                     BLACK AND WHITE TV

                    "Good night and God bless."


                    Go all the way to the bottom past the pictures..... I think you'll enjoy  it.  Whoever wrote this must have been my next door neighbor because  it totally described my childhood to a 'T.'  Hope you enjoy  it.

                    Black  and White  


                    Black  and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.)


                    You  could hardly see for all the snow,

                    Spread the rabbit ears as  far as they go.
                    Pull a chair up to the TV set,

                    'Good Night, David.
                    Good Night, Chet.'
                    My 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 seem to get food poisoning.

                    My Mom used to defrost hamburger on  the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too.  Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember 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 high top 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.

                    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 our 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?

                    LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO  ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR  ANYTHING!
                    BUT NOW I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
                    WHAT 2013 IS GOING TO BRING.


                    Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best. 


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