On 4/16/2021 8:21 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 11:59:20 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2021-04-16 12:09 p.m., Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>> On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 10:18:07 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:53:32 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I can't find any via Google. :-(
>>>> Blowing your nose into a rag and stuffing it into your pocket isn't
>>>> vert attractive. Especially for nurses who are supposed to be pretty
>>>> sanitary-minded.
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>>
>>> But he's not a Reg Nurse (Reg stands for regular), he's a Ped Nurse.
>>> He loves being a Ped Nurse. Ped stands for...
>>>
>> I remember getting hankerchiefs for Christmas from my father's old maid
>> aunts. It was nice of them to remember us, but paper tissue had been
>> invemted. The idea of blowing my nose and then wadding it up in a snotty
>> old rag was repulsive to me even when I was a kid. Once in a while I
>> see someone using one in public and I have to admit that it grosses me
>> out.... not using the hankie, but shoving it back into their pocket.
>>
> I would call that a *do things appropriate to your gender* kind of present.
> There's this mindset that runs through a lot of cultures that folks doing
> gender appropriate things is highly desirable, and gifting gender specific
> items is a common expression of that mindset.
> --Bryan
>
Could merely be an era sort of thing. My father and his father and
those before that grew up using handkerchiefs, not disposable tissues.

Then again, I remember buying my father a set of handkerchiefs when I
was a kid simply because I didn't know what else to give him for his
birthday or Father's Day or whatever. (He was military so giving him a
tie wouldn't have worked.) Similarly, I gave my mother perfume or a bit
of inexpensive jewelry for her birthday or Mother's Day. I didn't quite
know what else to do.

Jill