We were so poor ...

[Marty_d]

You had pockets?? And TROUSERS?

 

 

[johnm]

we were so poor that the power utility was never paid so we just resigned ourselves to watching television in the dark

 

 

[bexrbetter]

When I was a kid, Mum ......

You could afford a Mum? Lucky barstand.

 

We were so poor us kids begged woman walking past our hole in the road for a suckle.

 

Actually, nothing much has changed come to think about it.

 

 

[dazza 38]

We were so poor growing up that we used Tally ho papers as bog roll.

 

 

[Marty_d]

We were so poor growing up that we used Tally ho papers as bog roll.

Too good to use grass like normal folk, then...

 

 

[Phil Perry]

During the Aussie power cuts in the 80s,. . it used to drive me nuts having to pedal the RFD Gennie quicker to fast forward thru all the tv ads. . . . .

 

 

[Camel]

Too good to use grass like normal folk, then...

You mean grass in the tally ho paper !

 

 

[bexrbetter]

Too good to use grass like normal folk, then...

You had GRASS!!??

 

We used to push our house, well it was a wet cardboard box but it was a house to us, 3 miles just to look at a blade of grass growing halfway down a cliff for our holidays.

 

 

[Litespeed]

You lucky bastard- been able to have holidays!

 

Damn rich bugger.