> On Sep 29, 10:50 pm, Frank McCoy <mcc...@millcomm.com> wrote:
>> It consistently amazes me the definition of "poor" or "below the
>> poverty-line" in the USA.

>> Things that are defined as absolute necessities today; versus when I
>> was growing up. Now WE were poor. We weren't starving; but there
>> were very little of those things now defined as necessities that we
>> had.

>> No TV, and the only radios we had were those that *I* personally
>> fixed from junkers thrown out by neighbors.

>> The only television I ever saw was when passing by a furniture store
>> and peeked in the big plate-glass windows. Even then, I couldn't hear
>> the sound.

>> We didn't have a car ... WAY too expensive. The whole family got
>> around on busses. Of course, THAT city had darned good bus-service.
>> Twenty cents (or was it twenty-five) and with transfers, you could
>> get to within about five blocks of anywhere in the city. Later, we
>> all got bicycles and got around that way.

>> I never tasted a hamburger until I was 18 and in the marines.
>> During that same time, I had ONE ice-cream-cone.
>> That was bought for us kids as a treat by my uncle when he came out
>> to visit Mom from the East Coast. Dairy-Queen "The Cone with the
>> curl on top!" I think it cost five cents a cone back then.

>> But, it's pop that makes me wonder about modern "Poor kids".
>> Most people in the US, drink pop like it was free water.
>> Depriving a kid of pop ....

>> Yes, I DID drink SOME pop when I was a kid.
>> Only ONE bottle (Of 7-up) was ever bought by Mom; and that because of
>> the concussion when the doctor said it would be good for me.

>> Every OTHER bottle (all *bottles* back then) us kids ever got, we
>> paid for ourselves; usually by going around the neighborhood
>> collecting beer and pop bottles and returning them to the local
>> store. About five returned bottles would pay for one full bottle ...
>> and then we'd turn THAT bottle in for redemption.

>> However, walk into just about any really poor family's home today,
>> even if the kids are practically living on pancakes and syrup (about
>> the cheapest food outside of rice ... all calories and little else)
>> and you'll probably find CASES of Diet-Coke and other crap, with no
>> food-value at all. Go figure.

>> The whole family is getting FAT on a diet of almost pure starch and
>> sugar ... So they buy cases of diet soda to cut down on calories.

>> Milk ... Costing less than half the price of soda-pop?
>> "Milk is for BABIES!"

>> Yeah, yeah, I know:
>> "Grandpa used to walk ten miles to school through hip-deep snow ...
>> Barefoot, and uphill both ways!"

>> Well ... OK ... The DRIFTS were hip-high to a kid where the snowplow
>> had tossed them alongside the road. One time he missed the bus and
>> had to walk home ... but that was summer. And yeah, he once lost a
>> shoe in a snowbank. As for "uphill both ways": There was a hill
>> between home and school ... not very big; but there.

>> Grandpa didn't LIE, exactly.

> Is growing up in poverty what inspired you to write sick pedophile
> rape stories?