![]() ![]() That would turn them into sissies, and that was worse than being a “four-eyes”, if you can imagine anything that bad.ġ2. Parents, especially mothers, nagged boys to shine their shoes. We had Indians in our school-not the ones from some country over there-but the ones from out on the reservation.ġ0. When my father got mad at me, he used to tell me about where I came from, which was that the Indians from out on the reservation left me on the doorstop.ġ1. Fathers did not hug their sons. You would not be able to associate with the rich kids like the doctors’ sons, the mom and pop grocery store owners, or school teacher’s kids.ĩ. If your Levi’s had holes in the knees, it meant that you were poor and had to hang your head. We were not long out of the Great Depression so, we had to hear the mantras every day of: “waste not, want not.” “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” “Make do, or fix it, or do without and use the old Levi’s as rags.Ĩ. Being curly headed is to be a sissy, which is worse than to be a “four-eyes”.ħ. If you are a boy, do not and I mean never, let anyone in the kindergarten see that you do. He was starting his third year in kindergarten, and he was definitely bigger than me.Ħ. Never pick a fight with someone bigger than you… unless he calls you “four-eyes”.ĥ. If you had to wear glasses, you could never admit it, and you could never wear them in school because you would be called “four-eyes” which is synonymous with “freak”.Ĥ. If you are naughty, you have to pay dearly, like stand in the corner or sit behind the teacher the whole day.ģ. ![]() Kindergarten means “child’s garden” in some other funny language.Ģ. ![]()
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