What a pearl of wisdom. (I know, wrong bivalve...)

We're poor. We own horses.

"Oh, you have horses. You must be rich."

"No, perhaps we could have been rich. Instead we have horses."

Yes milk in glass and butter in wax paper delivered to the box on the front porch. My daughter and her boyfriend went to Halloween as the milkman and straying housewife. All in good fun :)

Mom, love her, wasn't much of a cook. . we did
the best that we could, and I did learn to despise
margarine! . milk and butter were delivered by
the truck with the insulated box on the back, and
boy were they fresh!!! -- j

Canned veges...yuck. i had a friend once who told me he made mac and cheese (the kraft kind) with water. It clearly calls for butter and milk. I do not promote margarine which was some sort of depression era manufactured thing decades later we were told was better for us.

it was all about the tartar sauce, for me, and corn... -- j

To this day my sister hates fish sticks.

we had fish sticks and canned veggies. good. -- j

That would be Silly Vasilli's Fusillinovsky!!

lol no wonder you had a crush on me.

I had no streamers.. what were sparklers? I did have a slip of paper with a code word written on it shoved up into my handle bar pipe (of my Schwinn) in case it ever got stolen we could prove it was ours. (Dad's idea).. it never did though...I lived on that thing.

thanks to the spate of tax increases 5 days ago!!! -- j

the only "sparks" off my bike-was the Miss "buzz" bike. banana seat, pink body. 4th of July parade streamers and sparklers. there were enough sparklers on my bike electrical taped on, to get OSHA involved

yes, I wanted the boy's 10 speed too. I knew we were separated at birth

Why do we have such laws? Obey the law or cause the law to be changed.

woodlema,
I agree with your comment about the word "poor" being abused in this country... the supposed "poor" in this country have all the gadgets devices, big screen tvs etc (things I don't have either), and moms who's kids are on the free lunch program at school drive SUV's and carry designer purses and wear designer jeans... it all makes me sick that this is accepted and has become the norm. However, my little story on this post was for fun..a memory...over a good meal and a rare evening out for us. "Poor" back in the 30's can't be compared to the "poor" of today...and none of it can be compared to poverty in 3rd world countries. Now, if you like to further the discussion of why third world countries ARE poor I encourage you to start a new post. (hint, it's related to the amount of freedom allowed by the powers that be..and our freedoms are being striped daily...so where do you think we are headed? "Equality" in starvation...everything is "fair" when noone has ANYthing.)

damn; why did you say that. here in grand junction co that restaurant is a pipe dream. I am envious.

Wow...way to work it in style! I was so jealous of the metal flake, red banana seat a neighborhood kid had. I used to do wheelies on mine and make the back fender spark... lol

OMG, no way... I had a (second hand) purple sting ray back in the late 60's... the banana seat was originally white, but I replaced it (at the Schwinn shop :-) ) purple with metal flakes, the "ape hanger" bars and a sissy bar that was as tall as my head... And a "wear out the tire" light set. To me it was the coolest thing going, and was my "pack horse" for my paper route... had to rig up the paper bags to keep them from dragging, but it was quite the "money maker" for a young kid of 8...

In Russia, would that be Vasilli's Fusilli?

Aw... Shucks!

Making the rich poor will not make the poor rich. Then fight for tax reform... flat tax for EVERYBODY, regardless of income..that's "fair" in the unfair sense of taxes to begin with.
This is my last response to you... "give into the system" "equally" "common good"... you're a leftist (which means a socialist, communist), which means a waste of my time.

Then YOU go make them available to EVERYone.