[ExI] letter

[SR Ballard]

Of course I know Monty Python. I was raised poor, not deprived XD I
watched quite a bit of flying circus when I was growing up. I can't
decide if I like Cleese or the animator better. So trippy.

I probably did come across kind of that way, but it's not so bad when
you don't know what you're missing. You're miserable, but you don't
realize that you're insufferably poor.

On the bright side, a little buzzer goes off in my brain the instant
the amount of merchandise in my cart exceeds $70 in value. Fun parlor
trick that'll be one day.

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 6:15 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 May 2017 at 11:44, SR Ballard  wrote:
>> My view of Trump comes from the lower middle class. My parents have to
>> decide every year if they want to spend their tax returns on their
>> teeth, or on their cars. My parents couldn't afford a house so we
>> moved into an "RV" and I don't mean one of those fancy-pants
>> old-retiree ones either. I mean that it was meant to be lived in 8
>> weeks a year, for two years, and replaced. We lived in it for 5 years.
>> By the end we had no toilet, no hot water, no air conditioning, and
>> one working electrical outlet. Bugs crawled in through the hatch next
>> to my bed, and walked all over me.
>>
>> Growing up, my parents were on food stamps for a while. I always
>> qualified for free lunch. I went on no school field-trips that cost
>> more than $10 my entire education. I could not use the scholarship I
>> got to a prestigious private school in my area because my mom couldn't
>> afford to drive the ten miles each way. One month in my childhood, all
>> my mom could afford to buy was a starting-to-rot 50lb bag of potatoes,
>> and so that's what we ate for a month, with odds and ends. Before I
>> turned 18, we could only afford to take me to the dentist once. I
>> received all my immunizations through government subsidized programs.
>>
>> My parents pulled all of our furniture out of other people's trash. My
>> parents were too poor to buy me clothes and shoes, so my grandmother
>> thrifted them. My parents nor myself ever owned a new bed, but used
>> the ones passed down to us by other family members. Cell phones and
>> similar things were received in the same way. As a kid, we had a
>> computer because my mom was good with them, and would salvage
>> computers that other people put away. My parents never bought a
>> moniter, television, any tables or chairs. My mother never bought
>> dishes while I was living at home, other than tea kettles. We used the
>> plates she got as a wedding present until I used my birthday money one
>> year to buy her some new cups and glasses when I was in 8th grade.
>>
>
>
> You had an RV! You were lucky! We had to live in a hole in the road
> and eat road-kill.
>
> You had furniture!  Riches! We had rocks to sit on and slept in a cardboard box.
>
> We could only dream of a toilet. Way out of our reach........  :)
>
> Do you know Monty Python?
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo>
> Four Yorkshiremen sketch - 3 minutes
>
>
> BillK
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