KIDS TODAY ARE A BUNCH OF PANSIES . . .

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Why, when i was a boy, i had to walk five miles to school every day . . . uphill . . . both ways . . .

Kids today don't know how good they have it . . .

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[+5] - edgarblythe - 01/18/2015When I walked to school, I rode a horse, which was the easy part. Coming home, I carried the horse on my back. We wrangled over which got to eat first from the bag of oats.
[+5] - Lustig Andrei - 01/18/2015My family was so poor I never got any toys when I was a child. If I hadn't been born a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.
[+5] - edgarblythe - 01/18/2015The girls used to beat me up for my lunch money.
[+5] - Lordyaswas - 01/19/2015During the thirties crash, Father once had to wait another year before upgrading the Bentley, even though the ashtrays were full.
[+4] - Lordyaswas - 01/18/2015Going to a boarding school, I never had to endure the awful trauma of walking to school. Father used to purchase a train ticket and leave me on the relevant platform at St Pancras Station when the...
[+4] - jcboy - 01/18/2015We were so poor, that when a crumb of bread hit the floor, the cockroaches scrambled out to feed, singing: Clap your hands, stomp your feet. Praise the Lord, we got somethin to eat! :P
[+4] - George - 01/19/2015They made us learn penmanship. With actual pens.
[+3] - Frank Apisa - 01/18/2015[b]When I was a boy, the snows we had to deal with sometimes reached all the way up to my shoulders. Now the snows are hardly ever even get up to my knees. Kids these days have it soft all...
[+3] - dlowan - 01/18/2015[quote="Brandon9000"] I too had to walk to school uphill both ways and in the snow too. My parents would almost always beat me when I returned home, and often killed me. [/quote]...
[+3] - Lustig Andrei - 01/18/2015The house we lived in was so small the dog had to scratch sideways if he wanted to be let out.

@Setanta,

being treated like a baby by mommy who wants to be your best friend is a blast.

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When I walked to school, I rode a horse, which was the easy part. Coming home, I carried the horse on my back. We wrangled over which got to eat first from the bag of oats.

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My family lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

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Going to a boarding school, I never had to endure the awful trauma of walking to school.
Father used to purchase a train ticket and leave me on the relevant platform at St Pancras Station when the school year started on January 3rd, and then pick me up on December 15th when school finished.

At least I think it was Father.

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School!? Luxury!

Ain't no school down these salt mines!

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When I was a boy, the snows we had to deal with sometimes reached all the way up to my shoulders.

Now the snows are hardly ever even get up to my knees.

Kids these days have it soft all the way around.

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I too had to walk to school uphill both ways and in the snow too. My parents would almost always beat me when I returned home, and often killed me.

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I never walked to school and look how butch I turned out Cool

. Antonio doesn’t walk to school either. We have Mountain Lions in the neighborhood! This story is a year old but we still have them in the area.

90-Pound Mountain Lion Sets Sights on Laguna Niguel Dog

http://cdn.patch.com/users/86555/2014/01/T800x600/4bfa3a34b33efab040f3323864f3f681.png

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@Lordyaswas,

Lordyaswas wrote:

Going to a boarding school, I never had to endure the awful trauma of walking to school.
Father used to purchase a train ticket and leave me on the relevant platform at St Pancras Station when the school year started on January 3rd, and then pick me up on December 15th when school finished.

At least I think it was Father.

Was it the chauffer?

Then that answers the question.

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My family was so poor I never got any toys when I was a child. If I hadn't been born a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

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They used to tie an old, dry soup bone around my neck so the dog would play with me.

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@Brandon9000,

Brandon9000 wrote:

I too had to walk to school uphill both ways and in the snow too. My parents would almost always beat me when I returned home, and often killed me.

WALK?

Luxury. I didn't have any legs.

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The girls used to beat me up for my lunch money.

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The house we lived in was so small the dog had to scratch sideways if he wanted to be let out.

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I used to always lead the pack when it came to Tuesday Cross Country runs. Trouble was, I was made to wear a fox outfit.

To this day I still flinch when I hear a beagle howl.

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We were so poor, that when a crumb of bread hit the floor, the cockroaches scrambled out to feed, singing: Clap your hands, stomp your feet. Praise the Lord, we got somethin to eat! Razz

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Some poor folks used to give their dog the chicken bones, after dinner. Not us. We saved them for tomorrow's dinner.

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We had nothing to eat but sand, which was bad enough, but then we ran out of sand.

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Neighborhood I grew up in was so run-down they finally tore it down to make room for a slum.

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