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I walked five miles to school.  Up hill both ways.  With no shoes.  Hungry and thirsty.

 

We would have loved a sign like that.  Instead of complaining about it, we would have taken it home and eaten it because we had no food.  And then after the game we worked in coal mines with no ventilation.  And we liked it.  None of this bleeding heart tree-hugger child-labor-law b.s. - the working conditions were dangerous and toxic and we loved it.  

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I walked five miles to school.  Up hill both ways.  With no shoes.  Hungry and thirsty.

 

We would have loved a sign like that.  Instead of complaining about it, we would have taken it home and eaten it because we had no food.  And then after the game we worked in coal mines with no ventilation.  And we liked it.  None of this bleeding heart tree-hugger child-labor-law b.s. - the working conditions were dangerous and toxic and we loved it.  

 

I walked five miles to school.  Up hill both ways.  With no shoes.  Hungry and thirsty. Laid out half the year pickin cotton and I still made straight  A's  We went to bed 30 minutes after we got up and swept the dirt floors of our tent. Then we separated the gravel out of the dirt and that was what we had for breakfast... just plain ole cold gravel. 

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And I still had over 1800 rushing yards by the sixth game out of the old single-wing offense.  But my foot got mangled pretty bad working at my other full time job, in the slaughterhouse and I only finished with 2700 yards rushing for the season.  That was when Texas A&M and Oklahoma State stopped recruiting me.  So I had to drop out of school and pick up a third full time job down at the lumber mill, loading 500 pound railroad ties onto flatbed trucks.  It paid 3 cents an hour but I was glad to do it.

 

What's a few splinters and a permanently injured back when you have the pleasure of knowing this is the plan the "big guy upstairs" had for you all along.  If they would just make prayer mandatory in public schools, this country wouldn't have any problems anymore.  That's what reverend Cletus-Jasper the youth pastor said.  Until he got arrested for stalking under-age girls.  

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The kids today don't have it nearly as hard as I did. When I was growing up in the 90s me and my brother had to watch dirty movies on a channel that didn't come in good and it was all fuzzy... And today all the channels are in HD.lmao #thestrugglewasreal

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