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My White Privilege

mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
edited August 2017 in General Discussion
Around 6 years old my Dad had a rule you had to get up at 7. Whether you did anything was up to you.

At 10 or 11 (cant remember) i would ride my bike to the hosiery mill where my Mom worked and go buy breakfast for everyone and get tips and keep the change. Plus i used coupons.

I did that from 10 to 16. At 16 i got a job working in the mill where my Mom worked during the summer.

Then i joined the military for 10 years.

Then i started work at a engine factory as a mechanic. I worked 60 to 100 hours a week from 1994 to 2010.

During that time i was a single Dad with no visitation from her Mom. Plus i went to college and got a degree in Facility Maintenance and my Journyman Card in Facility Maintenance along with my refridgeration license.

I went from a junior mechanic to leed welder and then to leed electrician.

My white privilege consisted of me working my butt off until i got cancer.
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, I was a product of white privilege. My first bike, well not mine completely, but I did get to use it. I learned to ride on it.

    first-bike.jpg

    I was from a rich family. My dad had a camera. I sure wish I could get my hands on the home movies and slides to digitize.
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nice bike, but surely your dad could have popped for a back tire.[:D]
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  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't remember ever having a new bike. Rember sanding and painting one metalic blue with spray cans.
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a new bike once but my father made me give it back. [:(!]
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got my first new bike when I was 6 years old.....we were rich...[:o)]
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  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Laredo Lefty
    Nice bike, but surely your dad could have popped for a back tire.[:D]


    That's one of them fancy "Drifting" bikes.[;)]
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first bike was a Schwin that had a lot of use. Got it for my sixth birthday. Dad paid two or three dollars for it I think, and he had it hand painted maroon. It was a 28" bike. When I had one peddle all the way down, just the toe of my other foot would remain in contact with the peddle! [:D] It was a real workout!!
    What's next?
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Laredo Lefty
    Nice bike, but surely your dad could have popped for a back tire.[:D]



    not when i was growing up


    i didnt get a bike until my dad won one at a raffle, then later parts for that only came from what i could find thrown away in alleys
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  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't have a picture of my first bike.

    Do have a photo of my first tractor. Grandfather gave it to me for being good. Great learning experience.

    first_tractor.jpg
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Folk are certainly more privileged regardless of color today...
    "What is truth?'
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first bike was a German racing bike of some sort. It was green, had the turned down handlebars, skinny tires and had a couple of Iron Crosses (no swastikas as far as I remember) on the frame. It was an old bike when I got it from my grandfather when I was 5 years old. Mom and Dad bought me a brand new black Schwinn 26" single speed for my 6th birthday, and I have no idea what happened to the old one.

    I rode the Schwinn constantly for almost 10 years, and used it to peddle a 10 mile round trip twice a day to change irrigation pipe when I was 12.

    A new Schwinn was a big deal, as we did not have much in those days.
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  • themountainmanthemountainman Member Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    J C Higgens handed down from two older brothers use. Got me a siren that ran off the front tire. Terrorized those dirt county roads of Roane County.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We were so poor, if I wasn't born a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with. [:D]
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