When I was a boy there’d sometimes be a mad dog
alarm and mothers would keep the kids indoors. I remember a couple of times. Actually, my mom’s Mad Dog alert went off
for every stray dog in the neighborhood. Probably over-protecting, but then I never
got bit by a mad dog either. Well, one cocker spaniel - but he was just pissed off, not really “mad.”
I think my Mom’s deathly fears for us kids fell in this
order:
- Polio
- Snakes (Coral, Rattlers and Moccasins)
- Mad dogs (which also included "unsavory" people I'm afraid)
- Worms (the kind you took pills for)
- Hookworm (whatever that is - can’t go barefoot)
- Ringworm
- Tooth decay
I I think by the Nixon administration she was including republicans in the Mad Dog category.
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