.........Countdown to starvation

Like I said......times were so much simpler back in the 60s. I would find pennies laying in the gutter every now and then as a very young teenager. I would take the pennies and sit on the sidewalk then start sanding the penny down, against the concrete, into the thickness and diameter of a dime. I always kept one dime for a template!! Once I got two pennies the same size as a dime I would pop them into a soda machine (Sodas were 15 cents back then). I would get my soda then use the nickle in change to buy a bag of Fritos at the malt shop. I would use the free Tabasco sauce (on all the counter tops) to spice up the Fritos and enjoy my free soda and Fritos. Then me and my friends would cruise the neighborhood on our bikes (bikes that we built from pieces of other bikes) and eat off of every fruit tree we could find. I survived on wild Chinese plumbs, pomagranates, peaches, figs and occasionally sweet oranges/grapefruits. Then I would go home and eat anything my Mom would let me get away with. We didn't have much so I stole a lot of bread out of my Mother's kitchen to keep my stomach from hurting between meals.
Now (2018) when I see a penny on the ground I think to myself (FREE COKE AND FRITOS!!!!)

FYI - Maybe that's why I became a Machinist?????? When you ain't got nothing, yougottadowhutyougotta do.........................

treblig