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betsuni

(29,297 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:16 PM Aug 2025

"You see, growing up, I had only one pair of good shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags

over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet."

Remember the bread bags!

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