Just thinking about the times
Just thinking about the times. As a senior (age) I have lots of years of experience with hard times. Believe it or not when I got maried nearly 50 years ago, I had a $20 bill in my pocket which was all the money I had. I owed my mother $300 which I had borrowed to help pay for my wedding, which I hoped to return from my new wife and my wedding presents. My honeymoon was a day at the shore in Atlantic City, because I had to be at work on Monday or I would loose my summer job which I could not afford to do. We had no place to live because I was going to college, so we lived with my in-laws four nearly 4 years. I worked every weekend so I could contribute to the household expenses because my wife’s family was essentialy poor. My wife sold her wedding ring when I finished college, so we would have enough money to go to Michigan where I was going for post graduate work in my field. I was going to get a stipend so we would have, at least, enough money to live on with our one year old son. Do you think this Depression can get me down? NO WAY. If we could survive those times when there was NO Depression in the country, just hard times that everyone was working through, we certainly could survive today. My wife and I were very typical of people in that era. They endured the same way we did and made it through to have successful lives. I do feel badly for my children and grand children who are now suffering but I truly believe they will also make it. Thanks for listening to my tale of woe and try to have a good day.
Tags: Arnie, Depression, hard times, woe
December 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Arnie Great post. Keep em coming.