Kids these days will never know….

[Back Alley Gator]

Expired soup can be as deadly as cereal killers.

 

[Nalt]

Expired soup can be as deadly as cereal killers.

"Sell by" is NOT an expiration date.

 

[AlexDaGator]

... and look at that ridiculously safe rubber mat bridge thing!!!! In the 70's, it would be slatted with narrow round steel bars to step on, but spaced just far enough apart and high enough off the ground that if you missed a step, you'd plunge through but with enough forward momentum to snap a femur!

This is more my era:

In "playschool" (before kindergarten), I climbed up one of those slides, hung off the edge, and dropped down. I was knocked unconscious. Of course, there were no adults supervising us (probably on an extended smoke break) and none of the kids said anything to an adult. I laid there unconscious with a dislocated shoulder until my mom arrived (late) to pick me up. All the other kids went in from recess. No adult noticed I was missing, all the other kids got picked up, nobody noticed me lying there in a crumpled heap under the slide.

Nope. I survived. Shoulder was badly dislocated and took a loooooong time to heal though.


Alex.

 

[AlexDaGator]

Somewhat similar story with a babysitter. My parents went to CA and hired an agency to come in for the week. (Mostly because the local sitter wouldn't watch us because my brother and sister would fight but I digress) I happened to get the flu and the babysitter pulled some can of soup off the shelf that most likely expired years prior. For 20 years after I never wanted soup again. That also happened to be the same week that Ted Bundy murdered the girls at Chi O in Tally. That was a weird week. As a young kid I didn't grasp it all but knew it was a big deal.

Pro Tip: DO NOT google "funny babysitter stories" from your work computer.


Alex.

 

[Back Alley Gator]

This is more my era:

In "playschool" (before kindergarten), I climbed up one of those slides, hung off the edge, and dropped down. I was knocked unconscious. Of course, there were no adults supervising us (probably on an extended smoke break) and none of the kids said anything to an adult. I laid there unconscious with a dislocated shoulder until my mom arrived (late) to pick me up. All the other kids went in from recess. No adult noticed I was missing, all the other kids got picked up, nobody noticed me lying there in a crumpled heap under the slide.

Nope. I survived. Shoulder was badly dislocated and took a loooooong time to heal though.


Alex.

So many questions just got answered...

 

[soflagator]

This is more my era:

In "playschool" (before kindergarten), I climbed up one of those slides, hung off the edge, and dropped down. I was knocked unconscious. Of course, there were no adults supervising us (probably on an extended smoke break) and none of the kids said anything to an adult. I laid there unconscious with a dislocated shoulder until my mom arrived (late) to pick me up. All the other kids went in from recess. No adult noticed I was missing, all the other kids got picked up, nobody noticed me lying there in a crumpled heap under the slide.

Nope. I survived. Shoulder was badly dislocated and took a loooooong time to heal though.


Alex.

I watched a classmate in first grade drop headfirst from the highest point of one of these. It was a scene and he was given some attention, but after 15 min or so finished the day despite complaining of a dizziness and a headache. Today he would’ve been airlifted straight to a specialty hospital in Vienna.

 

[CDGator]

"Sell by" is NOT an expiration date.

Let’s just say that this chicken noodle soup was not good for my soul.

 

[soflagator]

Let’s just say that this chicken noodle soup was not good for my soul.

Keep in mind the source. Did you read the part about he and his friends chewing on the creosote from telephone poles? Any other state he’d have been Baker-acted years ago.

 

[Nalt]

Keep in mind the source. Did you read the part about he and his friends chewing on the creosote from telephone poles? Any other state he’d have been Baker-acted years ago.

Alabama doesn't have the Baker act... And besides, it was older people that did that back in the 70's when I was just a kid...

 

[Altitude Gator]

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I think if you go left to right, everyone has 9 carrots and gets a trophy!

 

[TLB]

creosote would bubble up and drips would slowly crawl down the power poles (called telephone poles back then).

Always wondered what that substance was. Many a times driving past Koppers on 23rd Ave in G'ville with plenty of black poles sitting in the sun. I see now it's a Superfund site for chemical clean up.

 

[Treebeard]

For the models we put together with the really good glue...

 

[wrpgator]

 

[Nalt]

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They also will most likely never know these cameras that develop the pics before their eyes...

 

[Nalt]

 

[CDGator]

 

[Detroitgator]

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First CD I ever bought for a rack stereo was in a little shop in Fulda, Germany at the end of 1985. It was ABC’s How To Be A Zillionaire

 

[soflagator]

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Had an M60 go off right by my ear as I went to throw it. Stupid move on my part. It was old and I should have known the wick was super dry.

 

[wrpgator]

First CD I ever bought for a rack stereo was in a little shop in Fulda, Germany at the end of 1985. It was ABC’s How To Be A Zillionaire

Tell the story of you first VHS tape:
‘Frauen mit großen Brüsten’

 

[TLB]

Did we already cover tv programming signing off at midnight or 2am, then coming back online at 6am?

Went looking for an image to put with this, but came across a wiki on it that stated they often included a prayer as well. I didn’t remember that.


Oh, and static - kids today stream everything and get a wtf face if they try a radio station that fades out periodically. Forget about snow on a tv channel.