[BITList] Black & White TV

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            Black and White
            Black and White
            (Under age 45? You won't understand.)
            You could hardly see for all the snow,
            Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
            '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 $99 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 athreat.
            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
            jerk. It was a neighborhood run a muck.
            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!*
            *Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple
            pleasures are very often the very best*


	

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