National Kazoo Day Brings Back Disgusting Memories from Elementary School

So I get into work this morning and see that it's National 'Kazoo Day' - and then the shivers set in.

I remember back in elementary school, the kazoo was one of the first instruments we learned how to play in music class.  And I can still see the teacher reaching into a big cloth bag of kazoos and handing them out to the class.

Usually, she would start at one of the row and have us hand them down to the other end, meaning about 10 other kids handled your kazoo before you ever got a hold of it.

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Then came time to put it to your lips and blow - making the goofy sound that kazoos do.  After about 15 minutes of 'music making' (aka noise), that's when the teacher would have us hand them back in - spit and all!

At the time, I never gave it any thought.  But now that I'm all grown up and wiser, all I can think of is, "YUCK!!! How gross!!!"

But you know what I also remember?  Very seldom was I - or anyone else in my class of 29 - sick.

Maybe it was the sharing of germs that kept us all relatively healthy.  Perhaps we've gotten so 'germ crazy' in this country that we've messed with nature and screwed up our immune systems.  Do you suppose?

It does make one wonder!