Santa Clara CA bans toys in fast food (Happy Meals)

[tiny1]

Once, when I was a kid, we lived in a house with only one bathroom.

 
There were times when my folks did not know where the next meal was coming from.  Us kids would have shrunk into our shoes if we had complained.  I remember my Mom crying because we were forced to eat beans and cornbread for a couple of days.  We loved it.  Still do.  
When I was 9,we were struggling, and our next door neighbor,an elderly gentleman of about 80 years, offered to take me fishing.  I felt like Superman when I brought home enough fish to make two meals for all of us.  Ever since,when times get tough, the "tough" goes fishing.
We have allowed our kids to get soft. I am aware that we were just trying to make life easier for them,but I think we made matters worse.

[The Village Idiot]

Vesta's right....

 

/kidding

[The Village Idiot]

Vesta is on the money

[The Village Idiot]

Vampires?  In Santa Clara?  Where are they?  Are they the sexy type, or the scary type?

I thought it was Zombies?/

or was that LA?

[MarshallLaw]

Me Too!  And one phone.  And one TV.  And one Mom who controlled usage on all of em. 

We should have been so lucky to have one phone and one TV. And one Mom. No, when I was a kid.....

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!



(Second threadjack in the same thread. What's the record?)

[The Village Idiot]

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Was the mill uphill, against the wind, both ways?

[tiny1]

We should have been so lucky to have one phone and one TV. And one Mom. No, when I was a kid.....

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!



(Second threadjack in the same thread. What's the record?)

I'm glad you think my family's poverty is a joke. 

[debk]

I'm glad you think my family's poverty is a joke. 

I don't think it was meant that way.....if you reread the thread...it went off-topic before and after your post.

You will find that it happens a lot at this forum and the responses following one post is not necessarily responding to the previous post.....

It can get confusing...and sometimes requires reading back a couple of posts to have it make sense.

[tiny1]

I don't think it was meant that way.....if you reread the thread...it went off-topic before and after your post.

You will find that it happens a lot at this forum and the responses following one post is not necessarily responding to the previous post.....

It can get confusing...and sometimes requires reading back a couple of posts to have it make sense.

It was the content of the post, not the order.  Sounds like Liberals mocking common folk.  Didn't expect it froma Conservative forum.

[Lord Undies]

It was the content of the post, not the order.  Sounds like Liberals mocking common folk.  Didn't expect it froma Conservative forum.

It was a one-upmanship thing.  No one is making fun of poverty (yours or anyone's).   We laugh a lot here.  No one is trying to hurt feelings.  It's lighthearted fun.  Like many moons ago when I said I use to have to eat toaster crumbs. 

[IassaFTots]

It was a one-upmanship thing.  No one is making fun of poverty (yours or anyone's).   We laugh a lot here.  No one is trying to hurt feelings.  It's lighthearted fun.  Like many moons ago when I said I use to have to eat toaster crumbs. 

Yeah, most of us have also lived in the same situation at some point.  And surviving it makes us proud.  Joking about it gives us a smile. 

Man.  You had a toaster?   

[The Village Idiot]

Tiny, try not to take anything personally, its usually all in good fun. If you take things too seriously your going to freak out when you come across a ptarmigan-Bunny battle royale. (hehehe)

I, too, am very poor. Trust me, I never talk about it, but I am. Doesn't mean I can't make fun of bobolink or the welfare "somebody owes me" queen with 15 kids. Or especially making fun of leftist bouncies, those are always so mockable.

[MarshallLaw]

It was the content of the post, not the order.  Sounds like Liberals mocking common folk.  Didn't expect it froma Conservative forum.

If I was mocking YOU, I would have quoted YOU. (Like I'm doing here.)

I did not quote you, I quoted IassaFTots.

It was also a Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" skit quote. (By the way, everyone, good job on completely missing that.  )


You might want to learn the ins and outs of the board before you go off on a drama queen tangent, they don't seem to last long around here. Also, you'll need a thicker skin.

[IassaFTots]

It was also a Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" skit quote. (By the way, everyone, good job on completely missing that.  )

Oh well, hell.   

Mortified, I am.

[Chris]

That skit is a classic.  "In the morning, we would have to get out of bed and lick the road clean with our tongues."
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