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<blockquote data-quote="skeeter" data-source="post: 14408" data-attributes="member: 439"><p>I grew up in a house that had a cistern and a septic tank. Which means water was gold. We NEVER took showers, we only took baths, and in about an inch of water in the tub. And my mom went to the laundra-mat, because it was cheaper than buying water (it took two truckloads to make a dent in the cistern) and because all that water and soap wasn't "good" for the septic tank. Also didn't have a dish washer or garbage disposal for the same reason (and has to use the really thin TP).</p><p></p><p>Our original phone was a 6 party line. One of those big, black, rotary dial ones. When I was in about 6th grade, my mom's boss managed to get us signed up for a private line, but it cost a fortune. And IF there had been houses across the street (there weren't - it was a field), it would have been long distance to call.</p><p></p><p>We lived very close to the Voice of America tower farm, and very near WLW radio when they were broadcasting at 500,000 watts. You could pick those stations up on your TV, your phone, the PA at my gradeschool, the mikes at church, and kids braces. We also had a huge electric switching station very near us. We got hit by lightning A LOT!!! Plus my dad was an amateur radio operator, and those towers made us even more vulnerable.</p><p></p><p>It took forever to get to high school. I went to Catholic high school, and it was 17 miles away from my house. I had to get on a bus at my house at 6:45am, ride around on the route (was one of the first ones to get on) and get to the "local" high school, then get on a different bus that went first to the boys high school, then to ours. I got to school at 8:10 - and I got car sick, so couldn't read or anything during all that time. Coming home in the afternoon was reverse. And even after I started working and driving, I was only permitted to drive to school on very few occasions (usually if I had to pick my grandfather up after school to come and stay the weekend with us).</p><p>My first college was actually closer to my house than my high school!!!!!</p><p></p><p>And the one sad thing was half the house (and my entire "neighborhood" of 20 houses) was destroyed by an F5 tornado on April 3, 1974. We rebuilt (I was 16 and learned how to put siding and shingles and all that on with my dad), the rest of the houses had to come down and be totally built from scratch. Luckily no people were hurt (in my area) but we lost a lot of animals including a 10 day old colt a neighbor had.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skeeter, post: 14408, member: 439"] I grew up in a house that had a cistern and a septic tank. Which means water was gold. We NEVER took showers, we only took baths, and in about an inch of water in the tub. And my mom went to the laundra-mat, because it was cheaper than buying water (it took two truckloads to make a dent in the cistern) and because all that water and soap wasn't "good" for the septic tank. Also didn't have a dish washer or garbage disposal for the same reason (and has to use the really thin TP). Our original phone was a 6 party line. One of those big, black, rotary dial ones. When I was in about 6th grade, my mom's boss managed to get us signed up for a private line, but it cost a fortune. And IF there had been houses across the street (there weren't - it was a field), it would have been long distance to call. We lived very close to the Voice of America tower farm, and very near WLW radio when they were broadcasting at 500,000 watts. You could pick those stations up on your TV, your phone, the PA at my gradeschool, the mikes at church, and kids braces. We also had a huge electric switching station very near us. We got hit by lightning A LOT!!! Plus my dad was an amateur radio operator, and those towers made us even more vulnerable. It took forever to get to high school. I went to Catholic high school, and it was 17 miles away from my house. I had to get on a bus at my house at 6:45am, ride around on the route (was one of the first ones to get on) and get to the "local" high school, then get on a different bus that went first to the boys high school, then to ours. I got to school at 8:10 - and I got car sick, so couldn't read or anything during all that time. Coming home in the afternoon was reverse. And even after I started working and driving, I was only permitted to drive to school on very few occasions (usually if I had to pick my grandfather up after school to come and stay the weekend with us). My first college was actually closer to my house than my high school!!!!! And the one sad thing was half the house (and my entire "neighborhood" of 20 houses) was destroyed by an F5 tornado on April 3, 1974. We rebuilt (I was 16 and learned how to put siding and shingles and all that on with my dad), the rest of the houses had to come down and be totally built from scratch. Luckily no people were hurt (in my area) but we lost a lot of animals including a 10 day old colt a neighbor had. [/QUOTE]
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