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**infarrelisam** · 07-18-2007, 03:59 AM

C'mon, Gibbo. It sucks being a teenager with no money of your own. My parents could never afford to give me pocket money but they always tried to give me a few dollars to go out with my friends or movie ticket money when they could. But our friend here does seem to be thinking of it the wrong way, for sure.

Heh, I'll bite to this. My parents were and still are flat broke, and I never got pocket money, really never, and until I left home and started working for myself I had literally nothing that I ever wanted as a kid. I didn't even get your "few quid to go out with friends or movie ticket money". I went to the cinema for the first time when I was 16 and doing part-time work and could pay for it myself. So this ungrateful little pubert can bite me if he thinks he deserves even the vaguest ounce of sympathy, or advice other than suck it up and get the f-ck on with it. I'm not saying I had the worst childhood in the world, but I won't kid when I say it was f-cking shocking (for extremely private "family" reasons that I won't go into here) and not something I would wish on anyone. If I could change it for what sounds like simply being made to do a bit of work at the tender age of 15, then I might well have done at the time. Now I look back on it as character building, and probably wouldn't change it. Much to the chargin of my younger self I'm sure.

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07-18-2007, 03:59 AM	#31
infarrelisam Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	C'mon, Gibbo. It sucks being a teenager with no money of your own. My parents could never afford to give me pocket money but they always tried to give me a few dollars to go out with my friends or movie ticket money when they could. But our friend here does seem to be thinking of it the wrong way, for sure. Heh, I'll bite to this. My parents were and still are flat broke, and I never got pocket money, really never, and until I left home and started working for myself I had literally nothing that I ever wanted as a kid. I didn't even get your "few quid to go out with friends or movie ticket money". I went to the cinema for the first time when I was 16 and doing part-time work and could pay for it myself. So this ungrateful little pubert can bite me if he thinks he deserves even the vaguest ounce of sympathy, or advice other than suck it up and get the f-ck on with it. I'm not saying I had the worst childhood in the world, but I won't kid when I say it was f-cking shocking (for extremely private "family" reasons that I won't go into here) and not something I would wish on anyone. If I could change it for what sounds like simply being made to do a bit of work at the tender age of 15, then I might well have done at the time. Now I look back on it as character building, and probably wouldn't change it. Much to the chargin of my younger self I'm sure. See my double post goodness.
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