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November 14, 2013
If these are not the neurotic fears of women and capons, please tell me what they are. Such run the schools. They make policy.
Don´t run on the playground because you might fall.Don't roughhouse because you might get a bruise. Don’t go outside at high noon because you might get skin cancer. Don’t swim after eating, because you might get a cramp. If a child draws a soldier, call a SWAT team because he is a murderous psychopath. Don’t ride a bicycle without a helmet. Fill in the deep end of the pool because someone might drown. Supervise everything. Control everything. Fear everything. Fred On Everything
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 14, 2013 9:48 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Still amazed that I made it from childhood to old age. We worried about none of those things when I was a kid. Ignorance is bliss - or something.
Posted by: Jimmy J. at November 14, 2013 1:21 PM
Jimmy - it wasn't ignorance or bliss for us. My family worried about whether enough would come in to pay the rent and buy food; whether coal would still fall off the cars and tenders so we could walk the railroad and collect it; ... I could go on. (Great depression brat.)
Posted by: BillH at November 14, 2013 1:57 PM