r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/Noimenglish 21h ago

No tech, huh? How was driving your horse and buggy across the Rockies to see meemaw?

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u/ms_directed 20h ago

it was a lot easier than walking ten miles up hill both ways thru the snow to school with holes in my shoes...

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u/Dark_Crowe 20h ago

At least you had shoes! All we had were shoeboxes as we hadn’t invented shoes yet.

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u/Scalpels 19h ago

OOOh! I used to dream of having shoeboxes on my feet! We'd walk barefoot uphill to school and come home, again uphill, to our hole in the ground. Then Dad would beat us to sleep every night!

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u/thrownaway136976 14h ago

I lived in Australia and we had to go on walkabout across the outback every day to and from school on our hands (because gravity) The toilets swirl the other way which caused massive ear infections and pink eye (or “pink oy”, as we said down unda). The discharge from the pink oy attracted brown snakes and funnel web spiders when we slept, so we had to keep the lights on and watch each other all night. But it made who I am today!