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<p>[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 35759, member: 57"]I remember being in third or fourth grade -- my younger sister and I did eat in the cafeteria because Mamma and Daddy wanted us to have a "hot lunch" (although at home lunch was "dinner" and dinner was "supper"). The cost way back then was $1.00 per week for 5 "hot" lunches. The $1 bill was put in a pocket each Monday when I (and later with my little sister) set out to walk to school almost a mile away). (Are y'all tsk-tsk-ing yet?) </p><p><br /></p><p>One day (out of <u>many</u> days) spinach was on the preordained lunch plate. It was always a mound of green glop except for one day when there was a certain "crunch" to the spinach near the bottom of the pile. Good grief, I had raised my eating utensil without seeing a large, dead, still-intact-down-to-its-"fuzz"-and-wings bumble bee and again without realizing it had bitten into it. The other students at the long cafeteria table (probably the boys, but that I can't say for sure) helped me reassemble the bumble bee so I could take it back to the lunch-line to show the serving ladies. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My parents also gave me a quarter each Monday to pay in advance for the five-cent ice cream "dixie cup" each afternoon in the classroom. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 35759, member: 57"]I remember being in third or fourth grade -- my younger sister and I did eat in the cafeteria because Mamma and Daddy wanted us to have a "hot lunch" (although at home lunch was "dinner" and dinner was "supper"). The cost way back then was $1.00 per week for 5 "hot" lunches. The $1 bill was put in a pocket each Monday when I (and later with my little sister) set out to walk to school almost a mile away). (Are y'all tsk-tsk-ing yet?) One day (out of [U]many[/U] days) spinach was on the preordained lunch plate. It was always a mound of green glop except for one day when there was a certain "crunch" to the spinach near the bottom of the pile. Good grief, I had raised my eating utensil without seeing a large, dead, still-intact-down-to-its-"fuzz"-and-wings bumble bee and again without realizing it had bitten into it. The other students at the long cafeteria table (probably the boys, but that I can't say for sure) helped me reassemble the bumble bee so I could take it back to the lunch-line to show the serving ladies. :eek: My parents also gave me a quarter each Monday to pay in advance for the five-cent ice cream "dixie cup" each afternoon in the classroom. :happy:[/QUOTE]
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