I'm so old I Remember when:

[Evadig]

So are door handles and gas pumps.
Use gloves, or soap.

My mom always tells me this, but...

germs are what have kept me healthy.
You need to be exposed to them for a good immune system.
Money is filthy. Filthy good. Take it from Moony, everyone should go get a pile of $1s. Take them home and roll around naked on them.

I have noticed that when I do catch a cold, it no longer lasts for three weeks like it did when I was a kid - probably because I now touch door handles and gas pumps.

 

[The Moonshiner]

My mom always tells me this, but...

I have noticed that when I do catch a cold, it no longer lasts for three weeks like it did when I was a kid - probably because I now touch door handles and gas pumps.

Yep.
Now go play in the dirt, swim in pond water and pick up roadkill and you'll probably never catch a cold again.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

My mom always tells me this, but...

I have noticed that when I do catch a cold, it no longer lasts for three weeks like it did when I was a kid - probably because I now touch door handles and gas pumps.

The actual problem with the "common cold" is, although you can catch each variety only once, there are over 200 varieties.

 

[sdm111]

Yep.
Now go play in the dirt, swim in pond water and pick up roadkill and you'll probably never catch a cold again.

Ahhh, the good Ole days. I remember we had a hurricane wayy back in the day, while it was flooded we surfed on a piece of plywood down the ditch. I cut by foot real good. Few days later my mom had to go to the hospital and while there they saw I was favoring my butterflied and wrapped foot in a shoe. They wanted to see it since I was there like a freebie. I didn't think it was all that bad but they thought different. The next 15min was shear hell! They scrubbed it and said I needed stitches but it was too late
Don't remember why and really didn't care.
We always did stuff like that. Do that today and parents would be charged with abuse

 

[sdm111]

When a few friends could walk down the road with thier dog and shotguns going squirrel hunting without getting the cops called on them

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ahhh, the good Ole days. I remember we had a hurricane wayy back in the day, while it was flooded we surfed on a piece of plywood down the ditch. I cut by foot real good. Few days later my mom had to go to the hospital and while there they saw I was favoring my butterflied and wrapped foot in a shoe. They wanted to see it since I was there like a freebie. I didn't think it was all that bad but they thought different. The next 15min was shear hell! They scrubbed it and said I needed stitches but it was too late
Don't remember why and really didn't care.
We always did stuff like that. Do ot today and parents would be charged with abuse

I never did bad stuff as a kid but I remember one time my brother and a couple of his friends were out driving around back roads smashing mailboxes with a baseball bat.
The one with the bat would ride on the hood. Once when it was my brother's turn they went around the corner and he shot off landing on his knees in the gravel.
Hamburgered one of them up pretty bad. Of course he didn't want my mom to know so I hit it for a couple days until she figured out something was wrong.
He had to go to the hospital and get it scrubbed and dug on to get all the gravel out. He cried like a little girl and I laughed like a drunken hyena. Good times.
He told my mom he fell in a friend's driveway while they were playing football. When he was sniveling my mom said I don't know what you did but I hope that hurt like hell for lying to me.

 

[sdm111]

I never did bad stuff as a kid but I remember one time my brother and a couple of his friends were out driving around back roads smashing mailboxes with a baseball bat.
The one with the bat would ride on the hood. Once when it was my brother's turn they went around the corner and he shot off landing on his knees in the gravel.
Hamburgered one of them up pretty bad. Of course he didn't want my mom to know so I hit it for a couple days until she figured out something was wrong.
He had to go to the hospital and get it scrubbed and dug on to get all the gravel out. He cried like a little girl and I laughed like a drunken hyena. Good times.
He told my mom he fell in a friend's driveway while they were playing football. When he was sniveling my mom said I don't know what you did but I hope that hurt like hell for lying to me.

My sister was chasing me when I was maybe 10 or so, I slid and got my knee on a swing blade. That sucked too. The same area my sister had a horse till it saw a snake, ran through the pasture fence, fence that divided our property in half, the front fence and ran down the road. All my dad said was " that's it sdm111's sister go get that damn horse" it disappeared soon after lol

 

[The Moonshiner]

My sister was chasing me when I was maybe 10 or so, I slid and got my knee on a swing blade. That sucked too. The same area my sister had a horse till it saw a snake, ran through the pasture fence, fence that divided our property in half, the front fence and ran down the road. All my dad said was " that's it sdm111's sister go get that damn horse" it disappeared soon after lol

your freezer didn't suddenly get stocked up with meat did it?

 

[Canadian Wind]

One of the stupidest things I did as a kid was I used to 'brake' on my bike by slipping off the seat and using my knees on the ground. It was all fun and games until I did that wearing shorts!

And then after it had scabbed over, said scab was ripped off accidentally when it caught on the step of the ladder in our above-ground pool.

Can't believe I was so stupid to brake with my knees.

 

[jxp]

I'm so old I can't figure out what IIRC means. Or a lot of other abbreviations people are using in correspondence.

If I Recall Correctly