kids

[datasuspect]

when i was kid, my mom would write a note to mr. hooper so i could buy her cigarettes and "medicine."

[ElectroPrincess]

1. Good for your MOM! Mine would give me a lit cigarette to

light my Black Cat firecrackers when I was between the ages of 7-10. I'm lucky to have all my fingers. <eg>

[datasuspect]

2. true about the cigarette part

had to be about 5. she would have me run to the corner to get her "fags" (as she called them)>

[ElectroPrincess]

3. fags!?! You have to be a BRIT?

My story is true also ... you grow up early in South Dakota where, you and the rest of the family, must arise at 4:00 AM to milk the cows.

Alas, we've both been made delinquents at such an early age by the person we should have trusted the most.

What an UDDER shame. <eg> :hi:

[datasuspect]

4. my mom and grandmother were british "refugees"

they came to the states after wwII.

my mom eventually learned to talk "murikan" but my grandmother never did.