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"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Ophelia wrote:
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>> "Gary" > wrote in message
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>> > Back in the day...schools offered "Home Ec" as an optional class. Back
>> > then it was only a girlie class and most boys wouldn't dare sign up
>> > for it. For boys mostly, it was wood shop or metal shop. I took both
>> > of those. I wish I had been brave enough to take the Home Ec class. I
>> > would have liked that better. lol

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>> Yeah but you would have been called a sissy <g>

>
> Exactly. And if you remember your teenage years, you just want to fit
> in and not be singled out as someone weird. Home Ec was NOT a cool
> thing for boys way back then. I wonder if schools still have those
> classes.


Yes of course, but things have changed in recent years. And good thing
too)

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