I grew up in a poor family.
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Poor, but un-happy.
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I remember, most-days,
we didn’t have two
nickels to rub together.
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But I remember, too,
those times, when we
did have two nickels
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And how we’d
rub them together
all night long.
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Read Trefology
…and two dimes was a whole another story.
Hah! Dime rubbing was a rich man’s game.
Did you end up wearing off all the buffalo hide?
(Poor buffaloes!)
Haha. No, but we may have done some structural damage to monticello
:D
Thanks, mm!
This is really great.
Thank you, rd!
Ah yes, the simple pleasures truly are the best!
But give kids a couple nickels to rub together these days in place of an X-box or Play Station & they will look at you like you’re crazy.
Luxury. We had to rub two dead cats together and counted ourselves lucky!
Ah, to have had two dead cats, that is everything to a poor family.
😂😃
Thanks, s!
You’re welcome T
One family’s fun with nickels is another family’s idea of a good dime.
Well done, pw, well done.
😉
We were poor, but un-happy.
:) Nice.
Thanks, bk!
When I was growing up, I only had two pennies to rub together….and Lincoln didn’t like it one bit (he wouldn’t have liked it two bits if I’d had 25 pennies to rub together).
Hah!
[…] via Change — t r e f o l o g y […]
Thanks, dbb2!
FORGET FLINT AND STEEL / JUST TAKE TWO WOODEN NICKELS / RUB THEM TOGETHER
Inspired by a matchless translation of ‘Change’ re-titled ‘How To Earn a Wooden Merit Badge if You Don’t Have a Bic to Flick With’
Bravo, ces!
Why does the line, “…for a nickel, I would”, pop into my mind here. Was that a saying at some point? Maybe it was a punch line. Two nickels would be…
Hah! Yes, it is a classic punchline. Well, “classic” may be overstating it. “Punchline”, too. I remember in an old Charlie Chaplin short he uses the phrase, “For two pins”, because, I guess, back in 1918 a nickel would get you a whole meal. So your version is probably circa 1950, as in something the Beaver would say to Larry Mondello.
Wow! You really know your punchlines. ;-)
I grew up poor too and we played kick the can. We had a lot of fun with that old tin can. This is really wonderful writing, Tref. Hearing those two nickels rubbing together was like music to my ears.
Thank you very much, mw!
Yeah, the rubbing the two nickels together trick. Good times tref.
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Cheers, tok!
Brilliant!
Thank you, jan!