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Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc S.
Received On: 8/7/10 3:43 PM
Subject: We're Approaching America, Throw Out The Anchor
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc S.
Received On: 8/6/10 7:16 AM
Subject: Good Night And God Bless
"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 (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 ecoli.
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!
Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very
often the best.
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc S.
Received On: 8/8/10 8:54 PM
Subject: Our Future Looks Bright, Go Toward The Light!
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc S.
Received On: 8/2/10 6:41 PM
Subject; Web Link: Illegal Immigrant Kills Nun, Released By Feds
Illegal Immigrant Who Killed Nun In
Accident Was Released By Feds
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/2/illegal-
immigrant-killed-nun-released-by-feds/?clear_cache_true
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc S.
Received On: 8/7/10 3:42 PM
Subject: What I Did During My Summer Break
Recipient: Cary Jeffries
Sender: Marc S.
Received On: 7/31/10 3:17 PM
Subject: FREEDOM
FREEDOM
"A pistol defends your property and your
person from unanticipated and barely anticipated threats from thieves and
robbers. With it, you can control your immediate environment. A rifle defends
your freedom from oppressors and tyrants. With it, you can enforce your
will." - Gabe Suarez
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