"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> Oh pshaw, on Mon 15 Oct 2007 08:33:21p, Cindi - HappyMamatoThree meant to
> say...
>
> >
> >> We were never allowed to go off school property during lunch time,
> >> unless we lived close enough to go home for lunch and it was approved
> >> (in writing) by our parents.
> >>
> >
> > I graduated high school awhile after that, well I was born awhile after
> > you graduated so my experience is a different lunch era I suppose. We
> > were allowed to go home from lunch at two schools in Scotland but not at
> > the third (it was 30 miles away). In North Carolina we only lived two
> > doors down from the elementary school but we didn't go home for lunch.
> > That seems to have become more and more forbidden as time goes by. My
> > littles don't like to take their lunches now, it's too much trouble to
> > keep up with or so they say.
> >
> > Cindi
>
> I hated taking my lunch to school. I still hate taking a lunch to work
and
> I rarely do. Various reasons... I don't like making it, I don't like the
> lack of surprise as in "what's for lunch?", and I don't particularly care
> for cold lunches. If I've made chili, I don't mind at all taking a piping
> hot thermos full. We have nukers at work. The Amana cmomercial units,
but
> I don't like them and they don't operate at all or as well as mine at
home.
>
> I detest a steady stream of sandwiches at all times. I love a good
> sandwich, but only on occasion.
>
> Seems my feelings about taking lunches haven't changed much since
> elementary school.
>
>
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright
> __________________________________________________
>
> Answers: $1, Short: $5, Correct: $25, dumb looks
> are still free.
>
I'm a loooong time out of school, but I volunteer at our local village
library one day a week. Last year, I bought a very small microwave for a
couple of dollars and now am not a slave to sandwiches any more. I pick up
some Lean Quisine dinners when they are on sale, but I also make a lot of
homemade soups and stews. I still take a sandwich on occasion, but it isn't
my only choice. When I was in high school, there was a cafeteria, but we
had no money to buy lunches. I brown bagged it and bought a 1/2 pint of
milk for a nickle....that tells how long ago it was...lol...Sharon