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Lunch at school was one luxury Ma and Dad always indulged. We walked quite a way to school, and back then girls had to wear dresses to school. So my folks wanted us to have a hot lunch. Back then none of this enforced health stuff was the norm, and processed foods were never used at our lunchrooms......we got all kinds of good stuff! My first week in Junior High was also the first time I ever had fried shrimp - thought I’d died and gone to heaven! We got pizza, hot dogs, burgers, meat loaf, fried chicken, French fries, onion rings...all for the extravagant cost of a dime. Every Sunday nite after baths, we’d study our lunch menus to see what was being served. Then Ma or Dad gave us each .50 to take for the week. We’d give it to our teachers, who would write it in a book. On days when we didn’t like what they were having, we’d get a hot dog, because they were served daily in addition to the full lunches. We could also go back for as many milks as we wanted....first time I’d tasted strawberry milk, too!! I liked lunch.
 
Blooie said:
Lunch at school was one luxury Ma and Dad always indulged. We walked quite a way to school, and back then girls had to wear dresses to school. So my folks wanted us to have a hot lunch. Back then none of this enforced health stuff was the norm, and processed foods were never used at our lunchrooms......we got all kinds of good stuff! My first week in Junior High was also the first time I ever had fried shrimp - thought I’d died and gone to heaven! We got pizza, hot dogs, burgers, meat loaf, fried chicken, French fries, onion rings...all for the extravagant cost of a dime. Every Sunday nite after baths, we’d study our lunch menus to see what was being served. Then Ma or Dad gave us each .50 to take for the week. We’d give it to our teachers, who would write it in a book. On days when we didn’t like what they were having, we’d get a hot dog, because they were served daily in addition to the full lunches. We could also go back for as many milks as we wanted....first time I’d tasted strawberry milk, too!! I liked lunch.
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Wow that sounds amazing!! Wish they still did that! Much better than cardboard tasting "pizza" and all the other crap they served at ours and nowadays
 
Ugh so I was upstairs and come out of the room I was in and Luna was outsode the door sitting there so I walk downstairs, she follows me, go into kitchen, follows me, extra cute, right? Then she starts purring which is weird cause on the ground she usually meows at me. Well, ADORABLE. So I pick her up. Purring away still. Carry her to the living room, purring away. Put her on the arm of the chair, stays a while but eventually jumps off. Disappointing cause I thought she'd crawl into my lap but oh well. Anyway, long story short, when I'm holding her, petting and kissing, I notice after I let her go... cat her in my eyes, mouth, nose, etc. Which sucks cause I really love her. I know that I am technically supposed to be allergic to cats, dogs, and gerbils, but always been fine with all of them. But our previous cat was short hair. Luna I still have issues with 8 years later. Although I'm not really "allergic" per se, don't seem to sneeze or anything, I think it is just the long hair gets all over everything. Especially since she won't let me brush her so has a lot of undercoat. Thinking I may just need to take a Claritin daily or something? But if I'm not really "allergic", don't want to. Other option is shaving her which I already do every spring/summer but maybe should do it year-round? But that seems kind of cruel in the winter. Unless I move somewhere warm. I do not want to get rid of her and refuse, she'd be devastated as would I, but I also can't just give her zero attention. I guess I could just avoid kissing her and putting my head near hers? But that's lame. Even with shaving, they don't shave her head anyway. Her fur also does get on my blankets and every where which that part bugs/irritates me a bit more
 
KDOGG331 said:
Sooo.... is what they say about Area 51 true!? :lau
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Which part...? The busses with the black out windows? Similar planes where workers were loaded up and flown on site? All true.

Dad had a top secret Clearance... But maybe that was from the time when we lived in Roswell and he was putting in Missile silos all over New Mexico...

He admitted working on the Atomic test sites when below ground testing was being done... Designing test equipment and Telemetry equipment. He designed a camera that could keep up with the leading edge of the percussion wave.... At the time no camera could

there is no sound

In underground testing the engineers were soo good with the calculations that they put a white picket fence around the blast crater spot before the blast was done... Dad said the earth would fall in within about three feet of the fence.

Now you know why I get on my soap box about survival.... this was in the early and middle sixties wehn we lived in Vegas. Jackass flats was three miles from Area 51... And 61miles from Vegas....

We regularly felt the shock wave from the tests. Back then it was like a Sonic boom when one of the jet Jockeys broke the speed of sound. only thing damaged usually was the occasional plate glass window.

deb
 
N F C said:
That does sound like a lot of driving DMC, sending him stay safe vibes!

Of course, if he's anything like mine, he probably thinks there's no problem and all the worry is for nothing.
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Thanks Debby! He’s not worried. It’s absolutely crappy weather and he’s not home yet. We just got home from Bingo. Other son was calling Bingo tonight for the fire department so we had to go. I can’t believe the people there in this weather.
rjohns39 said:
X2 We'll send stay safe vibes your way just to be sure....
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Thanks Bob!
Blooie said:
I liked lunch.
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:gig
 
perchie.girl said:
Which part...? The busses with the black out windows? Similar planes where workers were loaded up and flown on site? All true.

Dad had a top secret Clearance... But maybe that was from the time when we lived in Roswell and he was putting in Missile silos all over New Mexico...

He admitted working on the Atomic test sites when below ground testing was being done... Designing test equipment and Telemetry equipment. He designed a camera that could keep up with the leading edge of the percussion wave.... At the time no camera could

there is no sound

In underground testing the engineers were soo good with the calculations that they put a white picket fence around the blast crater spot before the blast was done... Dad said the earth would fall in within about three feet of the fence.

Now you know why I get on my soap box about survival.... this was in the early and middle sixties wehn we lived in Vegas. Jackass flats was three miles from Area 51... And 61miles from Vegas....

We regularly felt the shock wave from the tests. Back then it was like a Sonic boom when one of the jet Jockeys broke the speed of sound. only thing damaged usually was the occasional plate glass window.

deb
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The aliens. :lau

But in all seriousness, that all sounds really cool!! And your dad sounds awesome!
 

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