I was telling my cousin sisters kids we were so poor stories. I swear to you each and every story is absolutely true:
1) The parents had beds but all the kids slept on the ground on mattresses. We all used to wear sandals and we would get callouses on our feet. At night mice would come and eat just the callouses of the feet and we would not feel anything. Crazy huh, and I swear to you that this is true. I know the kids will say, no way, but it is true. The mice would only eat the callouses off the feet.
2) We did not have a refrigerator
3) We did not have a car
4) We did not have our own bedrooms, and the boys would sleep on the roof of the house. Mainly because you would hope for a breeze so that you could fall asleep.
5) We did not have hot water heaters.
6) We did not have washing machines. Instead we had a rock. We would rub this blue clothes soap called Rin and then beat the clothes on the rock and then rinse and dry. That was our washing machine. We each did our own washing.
7) Of course no Dryer, we had to hang the clothes out to dry.
8) We used to ride one bicycle to the move theater so that we could save on parking. Venu would sit on the handle bar or the back on the storage rack.
Yes these were some of the things that we did not have, but we never felt poor or that we needed or wanted more, we grew up just fine and felt comfortable and happy with what we had.
