"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 9:36:21 AM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "dsi1" <dsi1yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> > On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 6:57:45 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >> "dsi1" <dsiyahoo.com> wrote in message
>> >> ...
>> >> On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 4:47:36 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >> > "barbie gee" > wrote in message
>> >> > crg.pbz...
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Je?us wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:21:42 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> >> > >> > wrote:
>> >> > >>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> >> > >>> ...
>> >> > >>>> On 7/27/2016 8:53 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >> > >>>>>
>> >> > >>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> >> > >>>>> ...
>> >> > >>>>>> On 7/27/2016 6:11 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> >> > >>>>>>> Only on Planet Bove do teens need a Starbucks within walking
>> >> > >>>>>>> distance
>> >> > >>>>>>> of their high school. And if they don't have a Starbucks
>> >> > >>>>>>> they
>> >> > >>>>>>> put
>> >> > >>>>>>> coffee vending machines in the school.
>> >> > >>>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>> How mach caffeine DOES Angela eat and drink?
>> >> > >>>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>>> -sw
>> >> > >>>>>>
>> >> > >>>>>> Beats me. I don't know anyone who started drinking coffee
>> >> > >>>>>> until
>> >> > >>>>>> they
>> >> > >>>>>> were in their 20's. She claims it's because "Seattle" is the
>> >> > >>>>>> home
>> >> > >>>>>> of
>> >> > >>>>>> Starbucks. I claim it's because parents are stupid. Then
>> >> > >>>>>> again,
>> >> > >>>>>> Julie drinks a 12 pack of caffeine laden soda pop every day.
>> >> > >>>>>> There's
>> >> > >>>>>> no way her child could expect to do otherwise.
>> >> > >>>>>
>> >> > >>>>> Didn't your parents grow up drinking it?
>> >> > >>>>
>> >> > >>>> Nope. They likely started drinking coffee in their 20's. When
>> >> > >>>> they
>> >> > >>>> were
>> >> > >>>> at work (and Dad had enlisted).
>> >> > >>>>
>> >> > >>>>> Mine did. Very common in those days for the whole family to
>> >> > >>>>> drink
>> >> > >>>>> it.
>> >> > >>>>
>> >> > >>>> Common where?! I'm not familiar with "those days".
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> My parents said that most kids drank coffee for breakfast when
>> >> > >>> they
>> >> > >>> were
>> >> > >>> young. And in reading stories of the past, this seems to be
>> >> > >>> true.
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Clearly that depends where you are because it sure as hell wasn't
>> >> > >> like
>> >> > >> that in Australia, even when I was a kid in the 70's.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Exactly. My folks weren't coffee drinkers anyhow, but we didn't
>> >> > > have
>> >> > > any
>> >> > > caffeinated sodas in the house, either. (My impression was that
>> >> > > coffee
>> >> > > was
>> >> > > expensive back then, another reason not to buy it, as we weren't
>> >> > > rolling
>> >> > > in money...) I might get some tea in a great once in awhile, but
>> >> > > until
>> >> > > I
>> >> > > was old enough to buy my own, no coffee, no colas, no caffeine. I
>> >> > > didn't
>> >> > > start drinking coffee til I was in my 20's. Did drink Tab in
>> >> > > college,
>> >> > > though.
>> >> >
>> >> > We always had diet soda. My dad used to work for RC. I just asked my
>> >> > 72
>> >> > year
>> >> > old friend about coffee. She grew up in Minnesota and said that
>> >> > while
>> >> > her
>> >> > parents weren't real coffee drinkers, they did make cups of it for
>> >> > dunking
>> >> > donuts in and she often had that for breakfast. We mostly had tea at
>> >> > meal
>> >> > times. Either hot or iced. But we did buy soda by the case. And many
>> >> > cases
>> >> > at a time. The lower shelf of our work bench was nothing but soda.
>> >> > It
>> >> > was
>> >> > usually the Shasta brand.
>> >>
>> >> RC was the first to come out with diet soda, right? And the rest is
>> >> history.
>> >> Did your dad have all the soda because he worked at RC or did he work
>> >> at
>> >> RC
>> >> because he loved soda? 
I don't recall drinking soda much when I was
>> >> growing up - deprived waifs we was.
>> >>
>> >> Yep and I think it was both. The RC job was a second job. He also
>> >> sustained
>> >> in injury from it. He had a scar on his chin that he got when driving
>> >> the
>> >> delivery truck. Something to do with a bottle somehow flying off,
>> >> coming
>> >> in
>> >> the window and hitting him. I don't think he kept that job for very
>> >> long.
>> >> I
>> >> think just long enough to make enough extra to buy a house and get us
>> >> settled in it.
>> >
>> > Well a house full of soda is certainly intriguing.
>>
>> I don't recall having a lot of soda in that house. No place to store it.
>> It
>> was a very tiny house.
>
> I thought you said you stashed many cases of soda under a workbench.
> Please to clarify please. Did I misattribute? That would be a serious loss
> of face.
That was after we moved here. Our house in Wichita was a tiny little two
bedroom without a dining room. We moved here when I was 7. Lived in one
house then moved to the one next door which was nearly identical. I did like
the rental house better though as it had a grand piano and a tiki bar. We
were not allowed to touch the piano but we sure did play in the tiki bar a
lot. Both houses had three bedrooms, dining room and basement.
Canadian family bought the house with the tiki bar. They had a boy a year
younger than me and a girl, my brother's age. We were friends with them and
still played in the tiki bar so it was all good. Their dad was a pilot and
ham radio operator. He kept the radio in the bar so we had fun with that
too.