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WildBill wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:Did I mention that neither my Mother nor any of my friends' Mothers worked outside the home and I walked to and from work and school?

Uphill, both ways, in the snow?

Yes.

My HS graduation present was a hardshell Samosonite suitcase. I was on a towboat pushing a string of barges down the Cumberland River at 0500 hrs the day after HS graduation (Dad got me the job). I got my first car in 1962, a 1960 Austin-Healy 3000, when I could pay for it myself at age 20.

I ain't really got a whole lot of sympathy for today's whiners. Never had any use for losers...

Okay, first job was pumping gas for $0.50/hour in a fillin' station in Harrisburg, IL at age 14. That was when regular was $0.21-25/gal and ethyl was around $0.35-.45/gal. Pumping gas also included washin' windshields, airin' tires, fixin' flats and washin' cars. I had to know how to make change for the sales and/or services.

Diesel and kerosene was about $0.17/gallon. A pack of Luckies was a quarter out of a machine. Did I mention that neither my Mother nor any of my friends' Mothers worked outside the home and I walked to and from work and school?

My parents were children of the Great Depression and couldn't come up with a HS diploma between them. I wish they were still here. I'd like to thank them and ask a whole lot of questions now that I'm old enough to listen and learn.