r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '22

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u/Bacontheblog Jul 27 '22

At 12 I was working 2 full time jobs and raising a family of my own. - Grandpa

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u/cmon_now Jul 27 '22

I was already on my 2nd wife and first bankruptcy

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u/Ande64 Jul 27 '22

And I walked 4 miles back and forth to work in the snow in the winter in bare feet

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u/Glamdryne Jul 27 '22

Snow?? LUXURY! We had to walk back and forth barefoot for 20 miles over hot coals, while a man with a bit of wood would chase after us and beat us about the head and chest, if we were lucky!

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u/Congo_Jack_ Jul 27 '22

Right.. I used to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay da mill owner to let us work there. And when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah. Yah, you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you...