Does anyone remember chasing the mosquito man's truck?

Hens do a much better job

Derp

And armadillos

Another derp

As a youth, 6 or 7, I remember there were three baseball fields next to a church, which was across the street from an elementary school. With all three diamond active in the middle of the afternoon, the "bug man" would go down the street and fog the entire baseball complex. There were a lot of kids there along with their mom's. Not one person pitched a fit about the bug man. There were mosquitoes which could grab hold of a kid and take him home for dinner. They were big suckers. No one ever got sick and we ran behind the truck bobbing in and out of the fog bank.

Back when I was a kid life was a little better. Didn't have to worry about what we said, thought, or did. We lived our lives and no one ever got hurt. Imagine that.

I LOVED the playground, too. The "monkey bars" were my favorite! Or the merry-go-round when somone would push it at a high speed and we'd let go and fly off it.

I liked the "see-saw" too! They were heavy and had metal adjustments in the middle of the wood plank so we could move them ourselves if someone was heavier than the other. Thinking back, you could lose a finger just by adjusting them.

And the swings...we'd "pump" with our legs, and then jump off. I've never had a broken bone, but did get skinned knees. Mom used to call them "brushburns." Never went to the hospital for anything. Just the antiseptic, mercurochrome, and bandaids.

This is funny:

When Playgrounds Were Deadly
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Dangerous Old Playgrounds
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Oh...how funny! An article about "mercurochrome."
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Thank you everyone! I love reading all your comments! Oh the memories, and to know you, or your parents/grandparents, were just like me growing up!




Last Edited by nutmeg on 02/20/2021 01:44 PM

Talk about dumb kids running behind the truck.

Even if you don't know what it is, I mean its a chemical right? .. have no concerns I guess.

What you talking about ? they still do it just with different chems.. They spray here for years for West Nile - From trucks and prob from the air.

I suspect has something to with decrease of insect population.

Smh

Guys must've been bored. Well you prob didn't know that.

What is boring about playing outside all day and having fun with friends?

Our parents would turn us loose. We rode bikes, played on playgrounds, played baseball or dodge ball with our friends. I remember mom giving me a nickel or a dime and I bought all kinds of candy at the store. Went there alone or with friends.

We all had one rule. Go home when the street lights came on.

What did you do? Stay inside and play video games? Nothing wrong with that. Your childhood sounds different than ours.

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DDT may have thinned up some bird eggshells but it sure drove off the COVID.

amirite?

Liberals and progressives have driven this country right into the sewer.

They are fucking evil.

Life was good before they started in with their bullshit.

Yes, one mental deficient fucktard out of 100,000 didn't think they were being treated fairly because society rejected their perversion.

Libtard's answer? Make 99,999 people wrong to justify a sick fuck.

I do miss the 50's-60's. Was great to be a kid back then. The ones now don't have a real life.

I do miss the 50's-60's. Was great to be a kid back then. The ones now don't have a real life.

I was born in 63.lived in flames and they sprayed every night w a truck or c130 that would shake the house it was so low.

florida

Yep! Got on our bikes and rode hard....to stay in the fog.

Thought it made us "invisible!" LOL

Funny, tho, if it was so "deadly," why are we still alive???

This was in Miami, FL, btw.

Also used Malathion on fleas, ticks and other bugs in the yard.

Funny how all that stuff is supposed to be so BAD for you now.....maybe it is! Maybe it has to do with how it interacts with all the POISON they feed us through our food now....

???

This is true.

We had real friends (not just on a screen), and we went outside until dark, and PLAYED REAL GAMES, used our muscles & brains (made games up), fought over the rules and usually came to a peaceful compromise (wonder where THOSE days went?).

And NEVER had a worry about being abducted or disappearing from our parents. Or I should say didn't have a big worry. I remember my mom threatening us that we shouldn't talk to "strangers" or they might "kidnap" us and we wouldn't be able to come home and they would kill us. That's as much detail as she would go into. Not sure if she thought (knew?) worse things could happen and just didn't want to tell us? Or if it really wasn't much worse than that.


SOOOOO Many PEDOPHILES in the world today.

I agree with OP. I wouldn't want to be a kid today. Kids today have too many worries, and can't really enjoy just being a kid.

I remember when a local steel plant was closed we used to play in there.Ripping asbestos off the pipes and throwing it at each other.It looked like it was snowing.They finally put a stop to it when a kid fell in the galvanizing pit.We did lots of stupid shit.I remember the mosquito truck had a sign that said DO NOT FOLLOW.They still use them but it is some sort of plant extract so they say.We have not had many skeeters last couple summers.

Absolutely, we thought it was so cool and thought it smelled good too. Of course, we are also the kids that grew up with every single adult in the house smoking cigarettes constantly so maybe it did smell good to what we were use too! Like the old song, we drank from the garden hose, rode bikes with no helmets on the highway with no adult supervision. Went to each other’s houses and played outside until dark. My mom did have a rule though, I had to be within ear shot of her whistle, if she had to blow it more than three times without me getting home, I was in trouble, therefore, I played outside unless it was already arranged I would be playing inside! Use to live about three miles from the edge of town so sometimes I would walk into town as a teenager, along a very busy highway, alone, walk all around and end up at Dad’s job so he could drive me back. This was before cellphones and I had the permission of my parents to do it. Never got into trouble and never looked for it. Would go visit my grandma and see my older sisters and my nieces and nephews. Go to the library and sometimes out to the department store, Hart’s to pick up something I might need or to get someone a gift with the money I made babysitting Do kids know any of that kind of life now? I’m so glad I grew up when I did, feel sorry for the way things are today!

I often wondered about that!

My dad was a milkman. We always had plenty of milk, orange juice, and buttermilk. My mom was a housewife. I do remember the man called the "huckster." He was the little man who drove through the neighborhood with an open truck full of fresh vegetables and fruit. He rang a bell and everyone ran to his truck.

We were not wealthy, but I look back and realize we ate very well. No prepared food. No fast food restaurants. All meals were freshly prepared.

I can't think of the vitamin my mom gave us everyday. It was a liquid. Tasted oily.

AH HA! Found it! Cod Liver Oil

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I remember that smell

The was nothing wrong with DDT. It was just over applied. If some us good more is better. A 1000 acres of cotton had enough DDT on it to treat all the bed nets in an African country.

I never chased them but my brother and his friends did!!

Yep I did to in the late 60s were are the class action suits i am sure it has to have caused something...

I remember asbestos in our basement. It was my grandmother's house and falling off the basement walls. We moved there when I was around 10 years old and would pick it up in our hands. lol

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We really did have a lot of freedom without fear.

I walked to school everyday. No school buses. Mom didn't drive. She was at home with my baby brother. At 6 I was walking to school alone or with friends. One mile. Two miles to high school. We never complained.

Yes...outside till dark at the age of 8-9-10. I still remember when the street lights came on, someone would yell, "Street lights on!" and everyone scattered and went home. We obeyed our parents.

At Halloween, we had so much fun. We ran all over the neighborhoods with no fear. Good times!

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we were the same way I walked to school 1st grade was about a mile. We rode our bikes far from the house did not come home till dark My Grand Parents lived at Panama City beach long before all the big hotels there were like carnivals along the beach long open air vendors from glass blowing to snow cones. I used to walk about a mile or so to the beach play ski ball even took the train out to petticoat Junction were my uncle who was only 10 years older than me worked at the old town print shop printing up wanted posters. then the gun fight would start out in the street with the sheriff and the bad guys. One guy would alway get shot off the roof and he would hit the ground pretty hard. you could mine for gold at the sleuth. or walk the old trail and see the funny tombstones with here lies Fred he got shot in the head.
we lived in a different age...sad