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Wow US Desserts!!!
"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:43:22 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>Yes. Funny thing is, in reading various things about past times, people's
>>perception of you really did seem to mean a lot to people. No one wanted
>>to
>>be looked at as poor and they would often go to great lengths to avoid
>>this.
>>
>>Reminds me of the friend I had who had been given a crappy little Ford
>>Pinto
>>for his 16th birthday. It had no AC. He used to drive around in hot
>>weather with the windows up so people would think that he had AC. We
>>would
>>then laugh and tell him that the fact that he was sweating like a pig
>>might
>>tip them off to the fact that he didn't.
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> When my parents got a car with electric windows for the first time, my
> mother found that embarrassing and nouveau-riche. When she'd have to
> press a button to open her window and talk to someone, she'd make
> pretend motions with her other hand, as if she was opening the window
> manually.
Heh.
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