Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Back To School

       $115 for a backpack to attend school....Back in the day food was in a lunch box that looked like a school bus and books were carried by your side at hip level...Girls carried books held at chest level...A guy didn't hold his books that way....Didn't happen.  Students carrying.a brief case were nerds...

      There were no phones or tablets....Chrome was on a bumper, not a book. You had gym clothes, not like todays gym class in street clothes and playing corn hole...Serious...they play corn hole in gym class....

      There was smoking in the boy's room but no weed or Zyn pouches piled up in the urinals. No vape detectors either.

        You wore you new clothes, brought your number two pencils and it was Miss Knapp or Mr. Kelly, not Mary or Joe.

       There was a shop class where you made something you didn't need and the gals took home ec and learned those life skills.

       Your sex education happened in the back seat of a Ford Falcon and a trannie  was either standard or automatic....

        Since no one else says it...drive carefully with school back in session...

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

There was no internet either and yet we survived. Also, after school most of us went to work and didn't sit around watching tik tok videos.

Anonymous said...

I remember when.....

Anonymous said...

That’s a shame you had to work so young
Most people that worked after school could never retire early

Anonymous said...

We also didn't have purple hair, nose rings, require a comfort animal or need a safe-space. Ahh...the good ol' days!

Anonymous said...

That's gold Mayor, thanks for the memories and humor!

Anonymous said...

And, what if we…

Anonymous said...

WE SMOKED WEED ACROSS FROM OLD CASE UNTIL 730 WHEN THEY LET US INSIDE THAT WAS 1976 AND CIGS IN BATHROOMS.

Anonymous said...

What color was your briefcase, Jeff? Black or brown?

Anonymous said...

Good stuff!

Anonymous said...

That explains a lot. I mean THAT EXPLAINS A LOT.