Middle Aged Memories
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meece so was mine on victory ave in north hwd daddy took us as well. i used mine twds a trip to israel when i was 15
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I had a somewhat regular Friday night babysitting job. Would get $1.00 an hour to watch two little boys, ages 5 and 2. They should have thrown in extra combat pay. (Have you ever been pinched with pliers between your shoulder blades? I have.) Much later, I went and had my own two boys. Ooooh, flashback!!!
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Something else...Remember when our parents didn't want us to know what they were talking about, so they would spell things? I don't know if I ever did that for my kids, but I have to spell w-a-l-k to keep my dog out of a frenzy, although a 14-yr. old dog frenzy ain't what it used to be.
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I never spelled because the boys' dad was dyslexic and he couldn't keep up with it as well as the boys could.
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I didn't like babysitting after I agreed to look after a young baby while her mother did a 6 hour nursing night shift. Said baby woke up, despite the mother assuring me she would sleep, and howled just about the whole 6 hours and refused to be pacified. I was a wreck when she finally came home and never babysat again. I decided moving lawns was a whole lot less stressful and I still like mowing lawns. My DD gets NZ$10 an hour for babysitting nowdays.
Lol, eli - I have to spell 'walk' and 'car' or my dog goes nuts too and he is still pretty good a a frenzy although he is 11.
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have to speak "walk" or Bear expects to be taken for one...but if we put our coats on at night, he thinks he is going for a walk too!!!.if you say "what"...he will start to howl!! so funny and he also puts his face up in the air.....
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NM - Love the checkbook! Don't tell me it is yours that you kept from that long ago and actually could even find it!
I used to babysit but it didn't go that well. My art teacher actually hired me to babysit her infant and I was terrified and stayed on the phone most of the time with my Mom asking what on earth was I supposed to do. They used me for a while and I got used to it and that was fine.
The two bad experiences was one the little boy next door who apparently was sick but the parents never mentioned it and I mean sick with stomach problems at both ends and he was old enough to find it fun to smear everything all over the walls. Never went back there! The other one my Mom agreed that I would go. When I got there the parents totally spoiled this little boy. Apparently he got anything he wants and I mean anything they told me he could have ice cream for dinner if that was what he wanted and that he woke them up last night in the middle of the night and wanted to go to the playground so they took him!! Really don't ever want to meet this kid as an adult. Anyway, about a half hour after they left he went to the window and threw my pocketbook out. I'm wasn't thinking and ran out to get it where upon he locked me out for the rest of the night! Awful. I don't think I ever babysat after that one.
I remember my parents getting all dressed up to go out. I remember watching my Mom get out the nylon stockings from a small grey box with tissue paper and how careful she was putting them on and hooking them to the girdle. My Mom had killer long beautiful legs ( she didn't pass them on alas!) and I just thought she was so gorgeous! She would also wear hats to church and so would my Dad. I loved that - wish all that would come back in style. I hate going somewhere nice like the Symphony and sit next to someone in grubby jeans and tee shirts.
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I did a lot of babysitting, and as the youngest of four girls, I got a lot of "handmedown" jobs. One family had four children, the oldest was only a couple of years younger than me, but they asked me to sit on a Saturday afternoon, my sister who was their regular sitter couldn't do it. I said yes, it was a rainy day and the kids were bouncing off the walls. One of the boys, he was 7 or 8, was being a terror, and I completely lost patience with him, so I told him to go outside and cool off. When I looked out, he was happily splashing in puddles with no coat or boots! When I told him to come in he ignored me and ran off down the street. He came in just before his parents came home, soaked to the bone. The dad just laughed, but they never asked me to come back again! I was probably 12 or 13 at the time. Too much stress for 60 cents an hour, if you ask me.
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No, that's not mine, I found a pic on google.
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One of my memorable babysitting jobs was when the parents of one little boy told me to make sure that I stayed inside and kept the doors locked after the sun went down because the neighbor had just been released from the mental hospital, I watched tv with the little one and got him to bed no problem. Then as I went back to watching TV, I heard tapping on the window. I freaked and spent the remaining 3 hours standing in the hallway, away from the windows until the parents returned. I had myself convinced it was just bushes until the next time I sat there, and there was absolutely nothing near the window.
This is the same family that the water pipe broke and flooded their house. All before cell phones. I called my dad to come turn off the water, but the house was old and he searched everywhere & ciouldn't find the main valve.
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I see that Jack LaLanne passed away yesterday at the age of 96.
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I'm had a memory... Oh, wait, I forgot.
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Remember in the 70s those puppets that wraped around your waist and looked like monkeys? I am sure they are still around to some extent, but I remember seeing people walking around in public with them. Creepy.0
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Wow, I don't remember those at all...and I'm really glad! Maybe it wasn't an east coast thing...
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I just remember some strange kids in high school that brought them to school. Creepy.
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Sort of reminds me of the new commerical for one of the cough or cold medications with the monkey in the drug aisle...it really has a strange face!
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My husband said he thougt that monkey in the drug aisle is fake. I haven't seen it enought to make a decision.
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re monkey: certainly fake & even more certainly sick and i think reacist. anyway, watchin all in the family, jeffersons reminded me of "homemaking class" in 7th grade, we were required to take one semester of cooking ---- purty aprons required, and sweing. we made a gym bag, a nightgown (same as gym bad but longer and open ended) and coup d'gras(sp) an a line skirt!! A N D the boys were reqired to take "shop "classes and ne'er the twain shall meet!0
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We had to make an apron for cooking. One semester cooking, one sewing in 8th grade. I was going to be a Home Ec major in college, so I took lots of classes in HS. It was gross and horrible to have guys in our cooking classes. It really made you afraid to eat the food.
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You all are giving me a bad flashback to making a dirndl skirt. I had the same thing, Meece, one semester of each. The cooking was not bad. Our school was politically incorrect and had no boys in the class.
I was remembering the old ad campaign "A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste," for the United Negro College Fund and the t.v. and print ads had that kid with a linked chain wrapped around his head. I could not find a picture of that, so maybe that photo wasn't PC. I can still see it in my mind.
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searget bilko, hogans heroes
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and i think every house had a wet bar....my parents didnt drink, hardly ever had guests, and yet...
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Oh N. M I loved all those shows. Wow can you imagine making fun like Hogan's Hero's did?
I don't remember the monkey puppet but I do remember in second grade a girl brought this puppet to school even though she said it was real of a racoon she held in her arms and could make it move with wires inside. I thought it was so wonderful! It was very lifelike!
I'm afraid I remember after my Mom and Dad's bridge parties then next morning my sister and I would go in the kitchen and finish off all the left over drinks from the party!
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hee hee.....watching the sag awards, i realized i was thinking of mchales navy, when isaid sgt bilko. just thought i'd say that
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Well, I'm just going to make it a TRILOGY of military t.v. shows then, and mention Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. I remember that from around the same time. Sgt. Carter! They must have been creating those sitcoms for all the WWII vets, or something.
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Remeber Senior Wences?
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Is he the one who had Topo Gigo - not that I'm sure I can spell correctly.
Yes, you do wonder about all those military shows made into sit-coms. I sure wish the shows my kids liked were even half as well written as all the ones we grew up with. Now the parents are always stupid - if they are even around and it just seems to be non-sense. Where ever if our shows were not reality there was something to learn or a point of view or some sort of statement or something to think about rather than just getting away with destroying things or embarrassing friends or parents and such. I have tried to get my kids to watch some of the old shows but I guess they are too dated for this instant gratification generation which is very sad. They will try and will humor me but that is about it - they don't actually like it. I did however take my son to see "The King's Speech". He went and was OK about it. Afterwards he said he was really surprised how much he really liked the movie and thought it was really good and not boring like he thought it would be. So there is hope yet!
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