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Aruba for High School Kids?

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Old Jun 8, 2005 | 07:58 PM
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Boy I tell ya what! I'm as prejudiced as any southern redneck trailer trash but I'm not so sure the judge's boy ain't gettin' away with murder while them undesirables are takin the rap fer it.
Almost forgot... My mom and daddy took me and my girl to Pizza Hut for some beer and pizza for graduation! I didn't know wealthy folk sent their kids to Aruba just for graduating.
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Old Jun 8, 2005 | 10:39 PM
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Originally posted by Geico266
This is my point; We are raising a bunch of mamsy pamsy kids that cannot fend for themselves. I cannot get kids to help bale hay for $10.00 an hour. "It's too much work, it's too hot!" They can stay inside an air conditioned house, play X Box, and get money free from mommy without working for it. We are headed for a real problems in this country when our kids don't understand the meaning and value of work and money.
I'll come and bail hay for ya for $10/hr. I love this country, but it's headed for the toilet extremely fast. I feel sorry for the parents. I can't imagine the pain and agony they are going through. I'm just surprised that they haven't sued the school over it yet since that seems to be the thing to do these days.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 01:15 AM
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Originally posted by pjsnyder76
Ahhh, a good natured member! (my step Dad was born and raised in Alabama, he didn't have indoor plumbing until he was 15 yrs old). No Joke Folks, the south is moving into the 21 st. Century!!

As I said, unknowledgeable... Sorry your step-father came from such a deprived lifestyle. The joke is on you friend...
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 08:06 PM
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Originally posted by Haulin_in_Dixie
As I said, unknowledgeable... Sorry your step-father came from such a deprived lifestyle. The joke is on you friend...
As I stated, "No Joke". Poverty is not the same a being deprived. (I'm sure if they had the option, they would not have their bathroom located out back.
Been through Alabama a few times, best I can tell is that 90% of the homes are manufactured.

The difference with those "leftcoasters" is that their average income is probably 5 times that of the rest of us, hence the strong real estate market.
Expensive to live in the Upper East side too huh, try to find someone up there who makes less than 6 figures..................

Looks like they have some more suspects, must be nerve racking dealing with foriegn law enforcement and such? Sad for the families.
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 10:27 AM
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$10 an hour to bale hay? Man where were you 5 years ago while I was in high school? I worked 16 hour days for $6 an hour, and loved every minute of it, because I was farming. Just not baling hay. Cotton and Peanuts. Let me tell you a 12 row planter will hold approx 15 bags of peanuts. The planters had to be refilled roughly every 20 minutes. You did not get a lunch break, cause the farmers wife brought lunch to the field, and you got payed for lunch hour. You ate between fill ups. I was only handler, and boss man never got off the tractor except to refill the temik boxes while I was putting in the seeds. He had to do that about every other fill up. So I loaded approx 720 bags of peanuts a day for two months. At 50 Lbs a piece, you were pretty much dead at days end. Every time he sees me now, he asks me if I am ready to come back to work for him as a partner. It is tempting, but I need a steady cash flow to pay the bills.
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