We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
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The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
I've always been a rough kid.
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.