Comments on: Bad Memories for this Baby Boomer

By: dorothy hamil

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By: Sayre

Sayre — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:44:31 +0000

Leisure suits with the loud polyester shirts underneath. VERY bad memory (and a fashion that should NEVER come back).

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:57:59 +0000

Suldog: You’re lucky you don’t get those headaches. Wicked. I know what you mean about the flavor, though. It’s good.

By: Suldog

Suldog — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:28:03 +0000

I guess I’m the weird one in this bunch. I like MSG. I prefer it in my Chinese food. The flavor characteristic it adds is unmistakably missing, to my palate, when it’s not there.

One of my favorite “Seinfeld” moments was when Kramer was ordering Chinese food over the phone and he requested EXTRA MSG! I have never gone that far

By: Lorraine X

Lorraine X — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:53:41 +0000

The iodine thing: not sure what the purpose was except that maybe it made your skin turn brown to give a sense of a tan. The baby oil masked the faux tan by searing the skin off your body. Geesh! If a mom did this to their kid today DSS would be all over it.

When’s the last time you could peel an entire sheet of skin off your sunburned back?

By: Lorraine X

Lorraine X — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:48:11 +0000

You’ll get there. I started carrying them in a little hard case to protect them. That was when I only needed them to read the fine print.
I have now progressed to wearing them on top of my head at all times (now I don’t know where to put my sunglasses). This can be dangerous if one grabs reading glasses off head and puts them on while driving on highway.

Anyway, I’m getting away from bad memories.
I think you should add an adendum for “no memory”. Definately a Boomer issue for the older crowd.

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:42:42 +0000

Lorrie: Good question about the glasses. I don’t refuse to wear reading glasses, I just hate carrying them around with me.

By: Lorraine X

Lorraine X — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:42:00 +0000

Oops. Did miss a few assassination mentions.

Bad recent memory: eyesight fading.

I’m curious: are there more Boomers out there who need glasses but refuse to wear them?

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:41:49 +0000

Lorrie: The assassinations were huge, of course. But those are not the events that seared into my pea-brain. For one thing, I was a wee 5 years old when JFK was killed.
What the heck is with the iodine??

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:39:05 +0000

Ralph: I completely forgot about the Bicentennial. Of course. It was the year I graduated from high school.
Kay: What a difference a few years make.
Chelle: The oil crisis was nuts as we walked to school in the dark.
Jen: Didn’t we all have that do?
Tom K: It was cute.
Wesley: Oh, yeah!
Michelle: Oh, sorry. But please come back. There’s plenty of stuff here that you don’t have to be a baby boomer for.
Crock: But you had the Farrah Fawcett do.
Gary: Great to hear your UK perspective on that time.