Friday, April 17, 2026

Of course we were different kids - thanks to our parents...

 
I still can vividly remember the sting of it. One of the tricks my Mother also had was to add Mercurochrome to baby oil and use the concoction as a tanning lotion. 
Even as young as two or three she'd slather that on me when we got to the beach, and by the time we got back home I'd look like Little Black Sambo...
 
That's me - not quite two - on the beach in
 Wildwood, New Jersey. Wudda stud...


This is the most comfortable sneaker that 
I've found in a while, and I found it online.


6 comments:

  1. Rickvid in the Yakima ValleyApril 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM

    "I was born a poor black child." Navin Johnson (h/t The Jerk)

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  2. You turned out the way you turned out because you were raised by your parent's generation. Your kids turned out the way they did because they were raised by YOUR generation.

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  3. Going down to wildwood cantt wait for it to open

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  4. mercurochrome was for the rich kids. We had merthiolate.

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  5. You folks just can't get it straight, Mercurochrome didn't sting. Metholiade did!!!

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  6. Merthiolate seperated men from babies.

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