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Although I'm not agin high jacking a friends post for fun I'm having a weak moment and being nice to JamesCoste's cool 80s thread. <br /><br />This is a for fun post only people.<br />I havent asked Lester for permission to speak for him but I'm sure like me has no complaints about living in the sticks. I for one would not change a thing about what some might call meager beginnings . It was full of real life and fun. <br /><br />SBN Wrote: <br />

Don't even get me started on the life in the sticks.<br /><br />I was kept in a fence during the day so mom would know where I was. No tv, wood cook stove. Eat before dark cause no lights.<br /><br />Dad would set off fireworks for us on the 4th.<br />He used sticks of TNT. Man they were loud.<br /><br />Had 2 rooms.<br />The kitchen/living room and the bedroom.<br />Water out of a barrel.<br />Naaa, kids nowadays don't know what rough is.

WOW Spinner!<br />We was RICH by those standards!<br />1957 Mom and I moved in with my Grand parents and three cousins my age.<br /><br />But us rich folks had THREE rooms!<br /><br />Kitchen/Dining room. See we dined! 10ft X 10ft<br />Family get togethers were fun because we hunted bull frogs and dined on their legs LOL<br /><br />A living room with a pot belly stove for heat/cooking.<br />Also 10 ft X 10 ft Which my gradmother slept in.<br /><br />And a tacked on bed room. 10ft X 20ft with three beds. One for Grandpa, one for mom, and one for us 4 kids!<br /><br />We lived in a Mansion<br /><br />But us rich folks had electricity ! <br />One bare light bulb in each room which grandpa kept turning off cause they cost too much!<br /><br />TV? Wads that? Radio? Not even. <br />Rain barrel is where you got the water for cooking bathing and doing dishes!<br /><br />Taking a bath was done in the wash tub in front of the wood stove after dinner!<br /><br />Now Spinner, I know I came from the rich side of the tracks and you from the poor side.<br />I am truly sorry you were so poor.<br />But I can bet that there is one thing we (rich vrs poor) can agree on as kids!<br /><br />Thet Dern bath room/OUT HOUSE!<br />By day it was like 50 to 100 yards away.<br />By Night it was like a 3 mile trip with all the spooks out there!

 

[heycods]

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Electricity came when I was two, we had gas lights and an Ice box (real Ice) 2 bedrooms And a living room, when I was 9 we got an air conditioner and a tv. Outhouse went when I was a baby. We had running water, It came from a stock tank on a hill up the road from the house, gravity feed (no pump)<br /> I guess I can be shooty to you humble beginning folks.

 

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heycods <br />Thats exacty the response I wanted.<br />And we had running water also! It came off the roof! Into the rain barrel.<br />And I thought JB was old!

 

[TilliamWe]

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Yeah, yeah, but I still didn't get cable till I was 22, in 1994!

 

[rwise]

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well the area I grew up in some of us were uptown and had well water, then came the blk and wht tv WOW some (most) of the kids I went to school with did not have one. Out house, ya, had that too until mom and dad bought the house next to us and we moved there. Some of the houses had spring water hauled in and put in a tank so they had running water, others carried theirs. Air conditioner, no we did get a swamp cooler eventually,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Ron G]

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LOL@this thread,i was a rich kid we had water and lights,a wood burning stove for heat which meant you was always cutting d#m wood,only had 3 channels on TV until satilite came out,back when Betas and vcrs came out once a month dad would rent one and we could watch a movie.and i lived on a dairy farm so had to milk in the morning then rode the bus to school because i had it easer than dad,got home milked or cut wood,on my free time we had fences but they would'nt keep me in my playgroung was miles of woods and feilds.i had it easy but nothing like today,and for james we could'nt aford an atari i had to settle for the sears verzion after they been out for awhile.

 

[eeboater]

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<br /><br />By the looks of things, I had a REALLY good childhood. So, I won't even discuss mine.

 

[RPJS]

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You think you all had it bad.<br />Just read what these poor guys had to put up with<br /><br /> http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm <br /><br />

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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We were poor coming up, real poor. I was born in 74 so I ain't an old timer. Ate a lot of rabbit, squirrel, and frog legs, plus quite a bit of perch. Its what we had. Lots of cornbread, taters, and beans. Sometimes my wife brags that she is gonna cook a "home cooked meal". That usually means a roast or fried chicken. I like it but it doesn't do it for me. Give me a bowl of beans and cornbread and I'll be happy all day long. Thats a home cooked meal. My folks were involved with lots of stuff that they shouldn't have been when I was a kid. We kinda suffered for it. If they would have been clean then we would have had more. My folks straightened up when iwas about 13. We started getting nicer stuff, stuff other kids had been getting for years. I don't regret one bit of it. It taught me the value of a dollar, the honor of a hard days work. In a way their bad parts made me a better person. I know I can survive and prosper if I needed to, along with my family. This is like that song "A boy named Sue" by Johny Cash. I love my parents for the lessons they taught me, and then just because they are my parents. Sorry to get off subject.