Subj : Re: Socialist "Democrats"
To   : DIGIMAUS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Dec 04 2025 09:22:21

RM> The last 2 years I was in highschool I was working over 30 hours
RM> a week while school was in, and longer hours in the summer..
RM> but, once I was working, my parents stopped buying me things like
RM> clothing and pretty much anything other than food on the rare
RM> occasions I was there at meal times..

DI>I contributed to grocery and rent funds when I was at home.  I was gone
  >a lot as a teen but I did like to eat at home when I could.

Yes, as long as we were still in school we were not expected to
contribute to room and board, but as soon as yu left school,
let's just say I moved in with a girlfriend because it was
cheaper to pay rent and such there than to live at home.

DI>My parents are buying a house soon here in town and my mom as mentioned
  >she'd like to have a family dinner often as my younger lives in town
  >also.  It'd be nice to spend more time together as we're all older now.

That's a great thing and best to take advantage while you still can.
Over the past few years I lost both my mother and father and you
don't think about things until they are gone. I was fortunate that
I lived only 20 miles from them so I could spend a lot of time
visiting with them and helping them out while by brother and sister
were hundreds of miles away and only saw them a few times a year.
We were lucky they both lived into their 90's..

RM> Ha.. yes, I remember filling up a small car for about $3.50..

DI>I was complaining when I was 16 about paying 69 cents a gallon for gas.
  >I was driving a 1978 Ford LTD that never passed a gas station.

When I was 17 I built a 575 HP Chevelle SS and it could only run
on Gas from Sunoco. All other brands of Premium still had the motor
running on when you turned off the ignition. Of course it was more
expensive than the other gas brands too..

That would have been in 1971. Gas was somewhere around 45 cents/gal.

Of course in Canada our gallons were a lot bigger...   B)

Oh, and funny story, when I got the car it was already worked on
and about 425 HP, and it got 7 MPG  (160 oz Canadian gallons!)..

After I had the motor redone I was really worried what the gas
mileage would end up at.. but apparently it was running so
efficiently that the mileage actually went UP to about 11 MPG..

That's while babying it though..
I could count it in gallons per mile if I was running it hard..

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