I'm so old I Remember when:

[Hayden Goseek]

Some people can't read their own cursive writing.

When I started nursing all the notes were hand written. (It was great because no one could read your writing and second guess you.)
Problem was the Doctor's orders were written by hand and we used all kind of initials and even ancient or latin references.
Did he scribble Toradol, Trazadone or Tramadol??? Was that 10u or 100??? QD or QOD??? It's all typed in computer now. It was a pain to learn but it IS better.
When I was in clinicals I (jokingly) accused a resident of being an imposter, she had a beautiful handwriting.

 

[The Moonshiner]

We had red rover banned at our school after a girl got her arm broken.

Was it an accident or did you have a grudge against her?

 

[ChicksnMore]

This world could use a little old-fashioned humor, today ♡

Except for the dad jokes...I don't know about anyone else's, but my dads jokes would get you in trouble today. PC wasn't a thing and it seemed most of the playground dad jokes we shared made fun of someone. My dad was part polish but Polack jokes were his favorites. Polish toilet paper etc

 

[ChicksnMore]

I remember the song and the movie.
How about this movie?
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I do! John Travolta...I had a class mate that looked a bit like him and everyone thought he was a dream. Course, now I have to mention Saturday Night Fever. I wouldn't mind an emoji with that dance move

 

[chicken-tender]

I remember 9 cent gas in the gas wars and watching President Eisenhower in a parade in Bay City, Mi; remember Russia beating US in launching the first satellite. And the Korean War. Yes. I am older than most dirt!

 

[ChicksnMore]

When I started nursing all the notes were hand written. (It was great because no one could read your writing and second guess you.)
Problem was the Doctor's orders were written by hand and we used all kind of initials and even ancient or latin references.
Did he scribble Toradol, Trazadone or Tramadol??? Was that 10u or 100??? QD or QOD??? It's all typed in computer now. It was a pain to learn but it IS better.
When I was in clinicals I (jokingly) accused a resident of being an imposter, she had a beautiful handwriting.

When I first quit nursing, I switched to doing medical transcription and medical records for a while. What I remember most from then is actually the storage area for files. Huuuge room in the basement with rows and rows and rows of cardboard boxes filled with patient files. Can't remember how long we had to keep hold of them but it was years. Every patient ever seen had a manilla folder that had to be stored and kept. Think of all the space and paper computers save.

 

[pertnear09]

I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about, but one of my earliest memories is hearing about Watergate. On the news and I remember my parents talking about it.

I am not a crook.

 

[igorsMistress]

This comes from several years ago. I'm not sure if they still do this anymore. My friend was a bus aide. She said the new busses actually came with seatbelts but the bus garage removed them before use. Seatbelts were not required in the state (at that time--not sure about not) The rationale was that if the seatbelts were on the busses but students didn't or refused to wear them and there was an accident the school would be liable so it was best to remove them. With the "high" seats they were considered safe.



Unless every school can afford to put a bus aide on every bus, I'm not sure how the bus driver (in today's schools) would be able to enforce it. The bus driver has a lot to do to drive safely and make sure there are not accidents. There is no way they can know everything that is going on on the bus, much less, if "Johnny" in the back of the bus is wearing a seatbelt. Even with a bus aide, I think it would be hard to enforce. When I went to school, all our bus driver had to do was say one word and we all behaved! "Yes, sir!"
Things have changed in our society. Somehow we expect teachers to teach and keep order but many parents today don't want their children disciplined (in any way) and the teachers (or bus drivers) have their "hands tied." I know, as some have mentioned here, that corporal punishment was handled wrongly by some teachers, which was very unfortunate because it removed a useful "tool" from the school's toolbox for discipline. For most of my classmates, just the knowledge that they could be spanked was enough to keep them in line. One thing our school had was a very well-defined policy for corporal punishment. It was not used cruelly. There were always at least two adults present as a witness. Men never spanked the girls. It was used very rarely, but it was a tool that was there to use when necessary.
Ok, I'll get off my "soapbox." I'm glad my teaching days are over, and I don't have to deal with what's going on in schools today!
(Had a friend recently retire after her students started complaining that they couldn't read her notes on the chalkboard. She had always written her notes on the board in cursive, and she was getting her first students that didn't know cursive! I asked my nephew about it because I knew he hadn't learned cursive. I was glad to know that he could read cursive. Will the future generations be able to read the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence?)

Soap box away! Lol. I agree it’s a pretty sad state of affairs these days. I actually complained in a school meeting about kids not learning cursive for the reasons you mentioned. How will they even know their basic rights if they can’t read the Declaration or the Constitution?

 

[igorsMistress]

I am not a crook.

I doubt YOU are Pert, but tricky Dick might have been.

 

[pertnear09]

My dad was a stuntman for the Lone Ranger; other stuff too but the Lone Ranger was his favorite.

He probably knew Chuck Roberson. He was a pretty active stuntman in that era. If you ever watched McLintock, with John Wayne, Chuck played the part of the sheriff.