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MineralMan

(146,262 posts)

9. Yeah...no...

Reply to FSogol (Reply #8)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 03:31 PM

Jan 2018

But, our parents never walked in on us then, so...

On that first occasion, my mother would have been 25 years old, and probably the neighbor, too. They found it amusing. I'm not sure they'd have felt the same later on, though...

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Without the Boy Scouts, Band-Aids might not have stuck around [View all] FSogol Jan 2018 OP

When I was a kid, back in the late 1950s, early 1960s rsdsharp Jan 2018 #1

Just googling that book (which I think my sister had) there are versions that came with actual FSogol Jan 2018 #2

Let's play Doctor and Nurse, OK? MineralMan Jan 2018 #5

Great fun! FSogol Jan 2018 #6

My mom and a neighbor once walked in on me MineralMan Jan 2018 #7

LOL, did the lesson about keeping your clothes on work? n/t FSogol Jan 2018 #8

Yeah...no... MineralMan Jan 2018 #9

I am curious about this "antibiotic cream" cyclonefence Jan 2018 #3

Could have been petroleum jelly with lanolin which was used for burns. Doubtful that it was a true FSogol Jan 2018 #4

That's my take, too Brother Buzz Jan 2018 #10

It was probably an antiseptic and not an antibiotic LeftInTX Jan 2018 #11

I bet you're right cyclonefence Jan 2018 #14

I was spared of Gentian violet LeftInTX Jan 2018 #15

Possably sulfa powder in a liquid base. n/t oneshooter Jan 2018 #12

Sulfa was introduced in the 1930s. jmowreader Jan 2018 #13