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I did, it was terrible.
My family didn't have a phone for a long time.
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My grandparents had neither a TV nor a car, all the way up to 1967 when they died.  :'(

My Mom did not have a drivers license until she was 36.

My Dad never ate pizza until he was 72.  Claimed he did not "like the smell of it".

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Andrew, you think you had/have it rough?  

Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter.  In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler.  We were poor but we had love, that's the one thing my Daddy made sure of. He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.

My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear coal mine. All day long in the field hoeing corn. Mama rocked the baby at night
Read the Bible by a coal oil light and everything would start all over come break of morn.

Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a coal miner's pay. Mama scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day. I've seen her fingers bleed to complain there was no need.  She'd smile in Mama's understanding way.

In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear. But in the wintertime we'd all get a brand new pair from a mail-order catalogue, money made by selling a hog.  Daddy always seemed to get the money somewhere.

I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well, the well where I drew water. The work we done was hard at night we'd sleep, cause we were tired. I never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler.

Well a lot of things have changed, since way back when and it's so good to be back home again.  Not much left but the floor.  Nothing lives here anymore, just a memory of a coal miner's daughter.

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That was absolutely lovely cs.


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I try Bobby, I try.   ;D

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Share the pain.
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Isn't there more important things in life than not having a VCR???

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Isn't there more important things in life than not having a VCR???
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Yeah.  Like not having any tapes to put in it.  :P

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Andrew - I won't share the pain, life's too short...

...but I will share the humour - something along the same lines...

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003KZC

...and read the skit about the four Yorkshiremen (right at the top of t'page...!)
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That was wonderful, Paul. I nearly cried laughing at that one.

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Isn't there more important things in life than not having a VCR???
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Oh yes!  Like not getting enough money from the government to support my family and then b*tching about it. :)

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Andrew, you think you had/have it rough?  

Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter.  In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler.  We were poor but we had love, that's the one thing my Daddy made sure of. He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.

My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear coal mine. All day long in the field hoeing corn. Mama rocked the baby at night
Read the Bible by a coal oil light and everything would start all over come break of morn.

Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a coal miner's pay. Mama scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day. I've seen her fingers bleed to complain there was no need.  She'd smile in Mama's understanding way.

In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear. But in the wintertime we'd all get a brand new pair from a mail-order catalogue, money made by selling a hog.  Daddy always seemed to get the money somewhere.

I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well, the well where I drew water. The work we done was hard at night we'd sleep, cause we were tired. I never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler.

Well a lot of things have changed, since way back when and it's so good to be back home again.  Not much left but the floor.  Nothing lives here anymore, just a memory of a coal miner's daughter.
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Wow, CS, I didn't know you had it so rough...you brought tears to my eyes. :'( ;) ;D

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Wow, CS, I didn't know you had it so rough...you brought tears to my eyes. :'( ;) ;D
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Yes, I just figured it wasn't healthy to dwell on the past.  Now I am happy. ;)

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Yes, I just figured it wasn't healthy to dwell on the past.  Now I am happy. ;)
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That's just cuz you're stoned 8) ;) ;)

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That's just cuz you're stoned 8) ;) ;)
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No but,

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pick up truck, she got runned over by an old train.

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No but,

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pick up truck, she got runned over by an old train.


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You met your husband there, didn't you?

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You met your husband there, didn't you?
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Yeah, we met at the station.  

My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine till five and then he takes another home again to find me waiting for him.

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No but,

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pick up truck, she got runned over by an old train.


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and on the way home - didnt you run over the treasured family dawg ??


For the record - I was 15 before we got a TV, VCR, microwave, phone, and a dryer.  And we werent what I would call "poor" poor - we just didnt surround ourselves with unneccessary items.

Andrew - grow up - there are people out there with far less than you and they are getting up each day and getting on with their life.  It is not the be all and end all that you had a few years without a modern convenience.

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You met your husband there, didn't you?
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PM me with your unedited post.  It couldn't have been that bad.  Could it?????

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Yes, I just figured it wasn't healthy to dwell on the past.  Now I am happy. ;)
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Glad you got over your horrible childhood.  ;)

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Yeah, we met at the station.  

My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine till five and then he takes another home again to find me waiting for him.

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Why u singing Sheena Easton? ;D


Howard

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Why u singing Sheena Easton? ;D


Howard
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Been quoting songs throughout this thread...because it's FUNNY!!!!!!

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I was born in 1974 so I don't think that VCRs came into exsistence until we got our first VCR in 1985.

Howard
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I got my first VCR in 1983.  They really started selling big-time in late 1981 and 1982.  :D

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I got my first VCR in 1983.  They really started selling big-time in late 1981 and 1982.  :D
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I don't have a clue if in 1974 they had VCRs ??? We were using 8-Track Tape Machines at the time. :D


Howard

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Andrew,
I can relate.  My family didn't have a VCR either.  In fact, now that I think about it.  I didn't get a VCR until I became an adult and was able to buy my own items.   8)
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;DI was born in 1965,so you could say i grew up without a VCR!Cheers!
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So Marian,next year you hit 40,how does it feel? ;D


Howard