Raised by the following rules/wisdom (Part 1)

1. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. -Mom

2. A little dirt never hurt. (Aka 5/10 second rule) -Grandma

3. Bleeding is natures way of cleansing the wound. -Grandma

4. Suck it up buttercup. -Dad

5. Go play outside (Aka, the creek, pond, field, in traffic on your bike) -Dad/Mom/Grandparents

6. Cut me a switch (go find an appropriately thin, greenwood stick which was used to beat your ass/ back of your legs with after misbehaving)

7. I don’t want to have to paddle you, but you made your mom cry. -Dad

8. After pulling into a c-store parking lot (get me a pack of Marlboro reds, the hard pack, here’s some money) -Mom/Dad

9. We’ll put some mercurochrome (a toxic anti microbial) on that cut. It’ll be fine in no time. -Granparents/Old doctors

10. “What’s that smell?”, “They’re spaying with DDT.” (DDT was a pesticide that is considered a persistent organic pollutant)

Some of the more basic things.