The over 30 crowd

[Fubar512]

While helping Auguste find a suitable boat during the Spring of last year, we checked out several boatyards in and around my old Summer stomping grounds, in Point Pleasant and Brick, NJ. Gus commented several times on my knowledge of the area, such as where the various boat yards (and the best pizzerias) were located.

Every Summer from 1972-1975, I would spend two weeks with my friend and his family at their Summer place in Bayhead, NJ. To pass the time (when we got bored of fishing, crabbing, and swimming), we'd jump on our bicycles and go off exploring, oftentimes staying out until past suppertime. A couple of times, we neglected to check in via payphone, and caught holy hell from my friend's parents. They didn't buy our excuse, even though it was true. You see, we had spent all our change on food or soda

[OReely]

Yeah, kids today are so spoiled. Of course it's our fault. We have too much disposable income and we buy the kids all the things we wish we had as a kid. When I was a kid my parents didn't have any disposable income. I'm tellin ya, after the beer and the cigarettes and the cheap scotch, there just wasn't anything left. We were dirt poor. That's right, we didn't even have dirt. We had to break rocks into dirt so we could make mud pies.

[240 LTS]

We were so poor if we had a mud pie, we would have eaten it.

[welder]

My family was so broke , we couldn't even pay attention.