You know you were a milt if...
This has been a running thread on facebook, and reading some of the stories on here, I thought some of you might enjoy these. They are mostly ones from newer experiences, so feel free to add older one.
YOU KNOW YOU WERE A MILT IF...
..you brush your teeth in a water fountain or on the walk to school..
..u know all the cheers for football season and/or basketball season..
..if you were scared to wear a hoodie your first day of class..
..if you were excited about desks in your class room..
..if you still put your phone in your boobs so you don't get caught..
..you see a nine passenger van and you look for the student home initials..
..the TL drawing was either the best or worst day of your life..
..you make your bed, dust your furniture, vaccum and clean the bathroom sinks everyday..
..on your birthday you could always expect a cake, balloons, and random new friends at your table..
..you ask your college RA if it's okay for you to go home for the weekend..
..you think your high school cafeteria made better food than college..
..youre the only one not homesick during the first month of college..
..you hear the word merit and start wondering wat level your own..
..your friends are amazed that you hung out at Hershey Park for a Saturday afternoon..
..you have said NECK MAASLES and thought it was funny..
..you were then only one who had to take off work for mandatory football games..
..you took your laptop to the Perk just to check your myspace..
..you think dressing up for the movies and mall is jeans and a hoodie and wear sweats and MHS t-shirts everywhere else..
..you think Johnny O is a professional dancer/cheerleader..
..you wear house shoes in the house, and sneakers to school..
..you still talk to the people you went to middle school with..
..you spent 12 years in school with the same people and you STILL love them..
..you know when you have to say "boarding school for poor kids.." when explaining it or else you know people with think you were rich..
..when your friends want to kill you when you tell them that your HS is paying for most of your college education..
..you're the only freshman in college who knows how to do their own laundry..
..every college and other place advertises their diversity, but you know there's no place that is as diverse as the Milt..
..you ask your room mate in college for the Gladiator to clean up a mess..
..you dont know what to tell your friends in college as to where your from (hershey, or hometown)..
..you wear coordinated pants, a belt, tucked in polo and consider to be fashionable after you pop your collar for school..
..You cant wait for Fridays because juice comes in from the meal bus...And you enjoy the surprise by wondering if its pink, or lemonade..
..your school is the only one not cancelled when the district closes for a snow storm..
..you have a ceremony to receieve your class ring ( 2 days before you graduate)..
..you're neurotic about sweeping the floor at your workplace because you dont want a demerit...
..you get rather irritated when windows and mirrors have stuff on them and insist on cleaning them..
I went back through here and found out maybe I'm not a Milt?
YOU KNOW YOU WERE A MILT IF...
..you brush your teeth in a water fountain or on the walk to school..never had the chance
..u know all the cheers for football season and/or basketball season..i did
..if you were scared to wear a hoodie your first day of class..Wore a what?
..if you were excited about desks in your class room..Desks? You mean tables.
..if you still put your phone in your boobs so you don't get caught..Phone? Boobs? I don't remember having either one.
..you see a nine passenger van and you look for the student home initials..9 passenger van? not a cattle car?
..the TL drawing was either the best or worst day of your life..Tender Loving but no Care?
..you make your bed, dust your furniture, vaccum and clean the bathroom sinks everyday..I did
..on your birthday you could always expect a cake, balloons, and random new friends at your table..Do what?
..you ask your college RA if it's okay for you to go home for the weekend..Be back bu 10 pm
..you think your high school cafeteria made better food than college..yes the food was good
..youre the only one not homesick during the first month of college..Homesick as in how you felt after you left the school?
..you hear the word merit and start wondering what level your on..I was good
..your friends are amazed that you hung out at Hershey Park for a Saturday afternoon..I did
..you have said NECK MAASLES and thought it was funny..?
..you were then only one who had to take off work for mandatory football games..?
..you took your laptop to the Perk just to check your myspace..laptop, perk, myspace?
..you think dressing up for the movies and mall is jeans and a hoodie and wear sweats and MHS t-shirts everywhere else..Oh yes the Friday night movies at Founder's Hall, Shirt, Slacks, Comb, Hankie, Polished Weinbergers.
..you think Johnny O is a professional dancer/cheerleader..?
..you wear house shoes in the house, and sneakers to school..hose shoes in the house, school shoes to school
..you still talk to the people you went to middle school with..sure why not
..you spent 12 years in school with the same people and you STILL love them..close
..you know when you have to say "boarding school for poor kids.." when explaining it or else you know people with think you were rich..Boarding school? Rich?
..when your friends want to kill you when you tell them that your HS is paying for most of your college education..They had parents let them pay their own way.
..you're the only freshman in college who knows how to do their own laundry..Be proud.
..every college and other place advertises their diversity, but you know there's no place that is as diverse as the Milt..I did
..you ask your room mate in college for the Gladiator to clean up a mess..Gladiator? Is that a paper towel brand?
..you dont know what to tell your friends in college as to where your from (hershey, or hometown)..Hershey of course
..you wear coordinated pants, a belt, tucked in polo and consider to be fashionable after you pop your collar for school..polo?
..You cant wait for Fridays because juice comes in from the meal bus...And you enjoy the surprise by wondering if its pink, or lemonade..wasn't juice Tuesday and Thursday for lunch
..your school is the only one not cancelled when the district closes for a snow storm..When the district closes? You mean when the state closes.
..you have a ceremony to receieve your class ring ( 2 days before you graduate)..Ceremony?
..you're neurotic about sweeping the floor at your workplace because you dont want a demerit...OK
..you get rather irritated when windows and mirrors have stuff on them and insist on cleaning them..yes
Stacey Adams were the shoes (tennis and dress) we got from the Milt.
A "golden arm" was the person who impregnated the cows.... 
Kelly girl..... she's one of my ex's 
but the glove was black.
before insertion.
I remember those shoes but don't remember if they're better or worse than the brown Z's.
Consider yourself lucky! 
Stacy Adams were the sneakers that clothing room assigned that were Kangaroos without the pouch.
"Golden Arm" was/is the nickname of the guy who's job it was to artificially inseminate the female cows, who used to wear a yellow glove that went right up to his shoulder.
[quote=Chris]a Milt long enough 'cause I don't know what stacy adams are nor what
a golden arm is or does.quote]
a Milt long enough 'cause I don't know what stacy adams are nor what
a golden arm is or does.
I do know what a Kelly girl is.
The top drawer in your dresser has underwear and socks, don't make me tell you whats in thesecond drawer.
You know what stacy adams are.
You know who golden arm is and what he does.
You know someone who has met Miltom Hershey and if you were lucky he was your Housefather.
You marked your calendar every four weeks on the weekend because that’s the weekend you could go out.
You couldn’t believe they were actually going to let you go home for Thanksgiving and were waiting for the punch line.
You had to pick between first and second vacation in the summer.
You and your “Brothers” all had one or both parents dead, but you never asked how they died.
You see house shoes at Wal-Mart and buy them because they remind you of home.
You Still pin your socks together. "Yeah I Do, I got tired of the one missing sock thing."
You used the angle of being raised in an orphanage to pick up girls
You got slapped by a girl when you took her up to the Home and she was impressed with how nice it was. ( Luckily they were easy slaps.)
Your defense for her misconception of the Home was “I told you it wasn’t like the orphanage in Oliver Twist”
You have to explain to people that the orphanage you grew up in wasn’t like the one in Oliver Twist.
You were 18 and didn’t even notice that you walked thru cow crap.
You miss the Sunday meal of Roast Beef, Mash Potatoes and Ice Cream.
You know what mastitis is and how a cow got it.
You know a hand full of girls who you can call a cow and they think its endearing.
You are 47 and still jokingly ask your house father / fellow MHS grad for a late when talking about the week end.
You meet someone who went to your school 40 years before you and you have an instant bond that last the rest of your life.
You would go to home life and get swats, but you would only let the home life staff that were graduates do it because they were Home Guys too.
You go to dinner at a restaurant or friend’s house and re-arrange your place setting, use your napkin, and pull out the chair of the lady you’re with and or who is seated at the table.
You spent so much time at Hershey Park when you were a kid that you don’t think it’s a big deal to go now.
You where considered not to be a true Home Guy buy the older Home Guys because you didn’t milk the cows by hand.
You move to a town (Lititz PA.) because it has a chocolate factory in it and smelling the chocolate every morning reminds you of home.
You are on a US Air flight into Harrisburg or Philly form out west, at night, and you eagerly look out the window for the Dome lit up, and point it out to people saying that’s where I grew up!!!!!!!!!
You thought waking up at 0530 in Marine Corps Boot Camp was sleeping in.
You actually know what Milk Pie is.
Your Intermediate Division Dining hall was covered in armor, swords and shields, because young men needed to have symbols of Honor, Courage and Valor around them, and you loved it.
Your 8th grade history teacher had his class room decorated like a colonial tavern and wore historically correct period clothing to teach the class.
You and your fellow Home Guys showed “The Love” for each other by acts of physical abuse- Forehead Slaps, Neck Slaps, Ear Flicks (in the winter)
You would pay back house parents you didn’t like by adding things to their food.
You had fun polishing the floors with “Shiners.”
Your first time seeing Old Yeller was at Founders Hall on a Friday night, in the winter time and it was a big deal because you were in the Junior Division.
You tell people that from 5th to 8th grade you walked two miles to school every day, rain or snow, and it’s true.
Your 47 years old, and in your office you have the same picture of Milton Hershey on your wall that was in every student home looking over your shoulder.
You finally graduated and were bored because the other 15 guys weren’t around.
You graduated from the Milt were handed $100.00 and couldn’t afford collage so you went into the Military.
Your friends don’t understand the concept of Saturday morning choirs.
You look at the president of your company and tell him that he is no “Milton Hershey”, just to bust his bubble.
Your friends and co-workers, thru out your life will not get into a Busting or Ranking contest with you, because they don’t want their feeling hurt and know they can't win.
When you get together with your brothers from the Milt, you joke and cut on each other about everything and no one gets their feeling hurt.
Saying Mom jokes was a favorit past time.
You have made a list, and placed it on this thread, and enjoyed it because of the memories it brought back.
House shoes School Shoes Barn shoes....Barn clothes, school clothes, house clothes.....YIKES!
You are proud to tell perfect strangers that the other perfect stranger you just met...went to the same school as you...
I recently faced SERIOUS economic downsizing out of two jobs. My FT job and PT job. I decided to take up a bartending job at a somewhat questionable place in my town. It's a couple days a week while I wait for unemployement (it has been six weeks).
Anyway...one of my bar customers asked me where I am from...blah blah blah...the old guy at the end of the bar who was half asleep perks up..."if they had girls at the school when I went there I would have left the cows alone!" Beautiful statement, I know..."Ringo" graduated just as MHS changed names from HIS to MHS. What was that 50 or 60? ANYWAY...he loves to tell people that we went to the same school and truth be told I am proud too....
AND...I do miss the green cleaner. It cleaned EVERYTHING!!! But I can admit that I have not taken a scrub brush to a shower since leaving MHS!
Vicki,
so you are able to go home for the entire weekend now? is that every weekend if the parent wants you too?
what else has changed since we left?
thanks for the update,
Scott
haha THAT IS TOO FUNNY. I always did the make up on the way to school. True talent is putting it on while driving up the hill!
admonished Kevin for not wearing his house shoes.
Our 5 year old thinks that everyone flips their dining room chairs to sweep/vac the dining room after every meal.
I can't wait to see what tick we're going to install in the baby...
We've raised a generation of "Milts by Habituation."
I think I'm still a Milt! Took my son Alex back on Sunday night and his sub had me check his room. It was a mess! Trash can turned over at the foot of his bed, paper on the floor, his personal blanket in a ball on the bed, tons of wrinkles in the bedspread and the corners were fitted on the end of the bed, stuff all over his desk and a pile of clothes at the bottom of his closet. First thing I thought was "Why did them even let him out for visitation?" Then I got him to work. I even stripped his bed and showed him exactly how to make his bed in less than 3 mins. The sub just stood there speechless with a big grin. Hey did you know they have fitted sheets now???? soooooooo spoiled!
He also got the lecture if he doesn't straighten up by my next weekend off that he will be sitting at the home learning how to clean his room.
houseparents had a little lock to lock the dail from going all the way around. this was also seen in the movie Cellular with Kim Basinger dialing from the attic phone that had been broken... that is why she got a wrong number... didn't wait long enought between the dialing / miss counted...
also tryied the free payphone call (prior to wargames) the ear peice could be removed and by using anything metal, could get the phone to think you just put money in it (connecting / grounding the ear piece.... and it would give you the dail tone)... (after the movie wargames the hand piece when to a complete unit - all made from one peice of plastic - and now you get the dail tone as soon as you pick it up.)...
talk about things of the past that changed... (beer tabs, or any soda can had tabs that pulled away from the can, - you could flatten it out and tie fishing string to it (in the little whole) and it be counted as a quarter in any pinball game or vending machine.. (taught to me by a sub-houseparent in 3rd grade...) at hershey park use to use it all the time.... until they changed over to machines that verified dropping of the quarter (and you could not pull it back out)... i think the bowling game was the only one that it worked on by my 5th grade year....
If you have a phone with a pickup receiver you can dial a number using this technique.
did it actually work?
If your number was 588-2300 you would quickly click the reciever five times...wait a second...quickly click it eight times....wait a second...click it eight times....wait a second....click it twice...wait a second...then three times....wait a second...then ten....wait a second....and ten more and your number would be dialed.
One of the Milt homes I was in had a phone with a rotary dial....like the picture below. And to keep students from making "unauthorized" calls the parents put a lock on the rotary dial. That is where I was taught to dial a phone by clicking the receiver in sequence to dial a number without using the rotary dial.
Pretty useless bit of information with today's digital phones.
ones Melissa. The Gold Card was just for the 91 and maybe 92ers, Agnes and I came up with that idea and I heard the 92ers took advantage of it and ruined it in true milt fashion. It was a great idea though and I had fun spending all my study halls in our "student lounge" with no adults.
You know you're a milt if...
You know what green cleaner is.
You were mad you had to were Stacy Adams.
You love the smell of Fresh Start.
You know how to butter 32 pieces of toast in 10 minutes.
You know the easiest breakfast to make when you're "Cook" was cereal, toast and juice!
You kitchen crew used to try to beat their time!
You can't stand the smell of chocolate (reminds you of manure)!
You joined clubs, sports and other activities to get out of afternoon chores!
You still remember how to make a collect call!
You have to have new slippers and robes each year.
You know a "cluster" is not just a candy!
You used to look forward to "kick, punt and pass"!
You know the Spartan Boogaloo!
You once had a "Gold Card" that got you into a special lounge.
You looked forward to reading the weekly activity newsletter.
You know every verse of all the traditional hymns.
Your favorite site is the dome lit up!
Alberts, Szamody and Connal Murray (who shocked the shit out of me last time I saw him he was a mouthy lil twig) was a nice evening of reconnection.
lewis, do tell!
Ok,
can't put away the knives without making sure there are no steaks on them (thanks Ms. Knopp 
)
wife can't understand why I will simple wash the dishes and put them away vs. putting them in the dishwasher.
My wife went back to work so we now have a house cleaner so don't have to do the big cleaning on Saturdays anymore, but oh I used to.
shoes put away neatly on a shoe rack, clothes are orginized on hangers, socks, underware and shirts are neatly put in drawers.
that's my miltaphobia's
that is funny...
Had this happen last Friday...opened a show at our proving ground Cafe Mocha. 3 Milts came to support and say hi. One of them I hadn't seen in 18 years since 1990 graduated. It's like we never left off and were talking about the h/p's of Union/Springdale like we were just transfered out of there...
Only Milts.
Dutch oven.
We clean the rooms up in the hotel rooms too and make the beds everyday.
I clean the table after we eat at restaurants. Now my kids do it automatically too. My hubby just shakes his head and laughs.
The rubber thing is making me laugh so hard. So true though!
When you vaccuum do you have to see the "tracks" left by the vaccuum??
Clean extensivly on Saturday?
Dry the sink out when they are done doing dishes?
Still cook large amounts?
god this is so sad.
not what you wrote, but what i'm about to say.
every place i've lived in since i left the milt has either had no carpet or i took the carpet out specifically to avoid vacuuming. [my current place has nice travertine tiles.]
i don't dry out the sink because my wash and rinse water is usually so hot that it evaporates very quickly!
i clean extensively on sundays.
and just this morning i made a DUTCH OVEN FULL of chicken and rice soup, most of which i froze this evening. no wonder i'm so fat. eish.
hotel/motel/bed and breakfast staff in third world countries tends to look at you very strangely for picking up after yourself.
when i was in swaziland in march, i usually cooked my own breakfast at the b&b i was staying at. the domestic staff [two women and a man] just stared at me. absolutely couldn't believe it.
i'm sort of hanging out with a few people now [a year after brian and i split] and none of them can cook.
now, for six days out of the week i can't clean my OWN house to save my life [isn't that what children are for? JUST KIDDING], but when i'm in other people's houses, man, i go and get out their duster and go to the corner store to get some simple green.
these days, i normally clean on sundays, though. saturday second barn has nothing on me cleaning my house on a sunday. when vito was still living here, he would tend to go and hide to makes some excuse to go to his mother's house across town or something.
the dishes would still be waiting for him when he got back.
"little boy, you are not slick. i know every trick in the book. if your father or i have to do the dishes, that's R20 off your allowance. end of discussion."
"okay, robert."
As far as saying a milt never had to be told twice but understands like no one esle is "you can stop milking that"
there really is some things that that only milts understand
7 and 7 was for sarcastically telling the Oak Grove girls to put their's on. Mrs. J was standing behind me when I said it.
you got me laughing so hard i am fighting tears.... :-]
As far as saying a milt never had to be told twice but understands like no one esle is "you can stop milking that"
..so THAT'S what I've been doing wrong!
.....when someone says "Put your rubbers on", you're thinking about protecting your FEET!!!
are we going to do that too when we leave here AJ? bleh im scared i don't want to OD clean on Saturdays forever!! 
Those are funny, yet eerily accurate, .
you put yourself on 7/7 for forgetting to scour a pot ( this was the very first detention I ever received in MHS literally my second day there). Bob Oesterling sentenced me) As far as the cleaning part, I don't obsess about it, I'll clean when I'm damn good and ready.
I spent most of my first three years on either dentention or restriction ( MURF you can back this up) at Rosemont.
Anyone remember a REALLY DUMB show called KIds Incorporated ? Talk about agony and torture ! Although I was really diggin' Breakfast with the Beatles radio show every Sunday morning after church.
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Scraping lot !!!
Wash that damned udder, Milt !!!! Wash the tail too !!
The first cow I ever milked kicked me in the collarbone and knocked me back against the wall and the dairyman said " maybe you'll listen to me next time" and laughed. I sure as Washington, DC didn't laugh.
Linda and Markus, how about your kids, are they doomed too???
My ex-husband used to get so irritated that I would clean, and I mean clean on Saturday's. He just did not get it...it was funny...I cleaned during the week, but just went nuts on the weekend...my poor child she looks at me like I am nuts, especially when I have her pull her bed out to edge...also washing windows...etc...love the milt but man as you said Cindy...our kids are doomed
I would clean the motel room spotless before leaving! My husband would have a fit!
that vacumeing one - not only do i do it, but my two older kids do it the same way - i owe them so many i sorryies for letting the milt way of life rub off on them....
the making of the bed everytime i get up - well less say that 14 years of living out of motels broke me of that one (but i think it has only been over the last 2 years or so). use to make the motel bed before i left the room when i first started....
house shoe or other slip ons are what i where at home, but lately (with the new house 05 and carpet) my wife makes me take them off at the door right along with the kids.. so eithe barefoot or just socks...
Yanna - I sooooo cook way too much all of the time! I'm constantly having to freeze food so that it won't go bad. And I have to clean out my sink and make sure that it's shiny after I've done the dishes. Sickening, I know!
Cyn - I make my bed every single morning no matter what.
Anyone else still wear "house shoes"? I can not walk barefoot anywhere.
Tree88
Our kids are doomed, they've been taught to vacuum in triangles! We do Saturday chores, and I am compulsive about making my bed as soon as I get up...but the best part is, that if Chuck gets up before me, he "makes" the bed with me still in it!!!
Linda and Markus, how about your kids, are they doomed too???
When you vaccuum do you have to see the "tracks" left by the vaccuum??
Clean extensivly on Saturday?
Dry the sink out when they are done doing dishes?
Still cook large amounts?
I still use Colgate and refuse to use anything else.
....You know you're a milt if you know that Safeguard soap gets out just about any stain! Especially blood!
Tree88
of five minute showers. The rest of my family are water wasters!
when...
you know what a front right teat wrench is...
the expression 5-5-5 conduct failure til 1999 makes you smile...
you can crap, shower, shave, dress and eat breakfast in the time it takes the average person to just crawl out of bed...
I'm a big fan of British oral hygiene, so I don't use toothpaste.
i did until i stop driving for a living - use to have my own tube, but since i am home wife only buys the good tasteing types...
Bill78 You do see the 20 yr. gap between you and the original writer. Don't take offense there were things in there that had me scratching my head and wondering what she was talking about like what is a Gladiator(no wiseass comments please).
I logged on to say you know you are a Milt when you can wake up at 5:30(without the aid of an alarm clock) and not think there's a problem