Posted by Goose on November 18, 2015 at 12:22:05 from (70.198.8.111):
In Reply to: 80 years ago posted by cool hand on November 17, 2015 at 15:31:35:
I'll be 81 in three weeks, on December 7th.
I was born in a hospital, but grew up on a farm where we didn't get electricity until I was 12 years old. My parents didn't get indoor plumbing until 1964, well after I'd left the nest, and that wasn't uncommon in rural Nebraska back then.
They had to add onto the house for a bathroom. By then, I was out of the Marine Corps and living on my own elsewhere. I came up with a plan on where and how they could add the bathroom onto the house. My mother didn't like the plan, said it wasn't practical, and referred to it as Gene's harebrained idea. Several weeks later my uncle, Mom's brother who was a professional carpenter and who did the work, came up with the identical plan. Coming from him Mom thought it was a great idea and they went with it.
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