I'm so old I Remember when:

[notabitail]

I remember telling the home-ec teacher that I already knew how to make pancakes.

Had no idea that pancake mix even existed. I knew how to make them from scratch.

Everything they made in that class was from a mix--biscuit mix, pancake mix, gravy mix. We did cook spaghetti noodles...and covered them with canned sauce.

Weird. And they taught the girls to sew on a button. Still don't know why I was in that class, but it was required.

"How to Make a Mix" class is what it should have been called.

 

[MROO]

What - no streamers on the handle bars? Practically nekkid.

What - no streamers on the handle bars? Practically nekkid.

Duh! Anyone who knows ANYTHING knows there were streamers & a bell! So of COURSE I had streamers - purple & white. I even had a purple flower on the ting-a-ling bell! Man, I was SCHOOLIN'!

 

[jxp]

Well, that's not fair. We didn't have split girls/boys classes in my school. Everyone was required to take a semester of shop and a semester of home ec, usually in the same year, I think it was eighth grade.

I wish shop had included auto mechanics but it was wood working. You picked a few projects and worked on them for the semester. I think I made a mirror-backed wooden wall hanger for a potted plant, sort of like this. It was fun but I would rather have learned about car engines.

I got to take both auto mechanics shop and photography in high school. We'd do simple things like change oil, rotate tires, and tune-ups on the cars of teachers brave enough to trust a bunch of high schoolers. We also learned about combustion engines and helped the shop teacher rebuild one for a car he was restoring. No wheres near as cool as the one from Grease.

In photography we used black and white film, learned about aperture, exposure, shutter speed, background, lighting, framing your shot, developed our own pictures in the school's dark room, oil tinting, and a whole lotta other things I can't remember the names of. It was actually quite enjoyable. Next room over from the photography class was woodworking shop. My brother got to take that but I ran out of room in my schedule because of all the Scholars AP classes. I loved looking in on the progress the students were making on a full-size replica of the liberty bell they presented for bicentennial. Meanwhile, the woodworking shop teacher worked on making a grandfather clock during his free period.

Good times.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I got to take both auto mechanics shop and photography in high school. We'd do simple things like change oil, rotate tires, and tune-ups on the cars of teachers brave enough to trust a bunch of high schoolers. We also learned about combustion engines and helped the shop teacher rebuild one for a car he was restoring. No wheres near as cool as the one from Grease.

In photography we used black and white film, learned about aperture, exposure, shutter speed, background, lighting, framing your shot, developed our own pictures in the school's dark room, oil tinting, and a whole lotta other things I can't remember the names of. It was actually quite enjoyable. Next room over from the photography class was woodworking shop. My brother got to take that but I ran out of room in my schedule because of all the Scholars AP classes. I loved looking in on the progress the students were making on a full-size replica of the liberty bell they presented for bicentennial. Meanwhile, the woodworking shop teacher worked on making a grandfather clock during his free period.

Good times.

Wow, that's way cooler than what we had!! Awesome.

I was a kid when Grease came out. I didn't get any of the sexual stuff in that song until I was much older. I think I just misheard a lot of it and made it into something I could understand. For example (not sexual) the 405 is a major freeway in southern California and when he sings "burning up the quarter mile" I thought he was saying "burning up the 405."

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Convenient.

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And unsanitary! Gross, eeww.