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pnwmom

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37. The guffaws are because people don't believe that a whole bus full of kids

Reply to unrepentant progress (Reply #9)

Thu Jan 22, 2015, 04:39 AM

Jan 2015

were wearing bread bags OVER THEIR SHOES. There was no mention of boots in her story, or bags being used as bootie liners.

Her story seems very implausible to many of us. How could bread bags hold up to the grit on city streets?

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Am I cynical for not believing that everybody on Joni Ernst's school bus... [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 OP

I can't believe she had bread bags man! sharp_stick Jan 2015 #1

"We used the entrails of a Tauntaun to stay warm on the way to school" KatyMan Jan 2015 #6

It reminds me of the fella who said he walked to and from school uphill two miles every day./NT DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #2

Don't talk about my pops that way rbrnmw Jan 2015 #11

... after feeding the chickens and slopping the pigs! ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #22

they all must knew each other rbrnmw Jan 2015 #25

That was Bill Cosby, by the way. Orrex Jan 2015 #12

it was actually a lot of our Grandpops and pops who told that tale rbrnmw Jan 2015 #16

They should sue ol' Bill for plagiarism. Orrex Jan 2015 #18

why not he being sued for everything else? rbrnmw Jan 2015 #24

LOL Orrex Jan 2015 #26

Aw come on! You don't believe her? Avalux Jan 2015 #3

She's not old enough to have lived through the Depression and Cleita Jan 2015 #4

I still kinda do that hfojvt Jan 2015 #7

Exactly. unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #10

I do the same and can't remember when I last bought a box of ziplocks. eom Cleita Jan 2015 #13

Habits die hard bhikkhu Jan 2015 #27

Bread bags were pretty common where I'm from (Pennsylvania) in the 70's-- TwilightGardener Jan 2015 #5

Same here -- Central NY in the late 1960s unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #9

If she wanted to talk about poverty she could talk about the 1.6 million Americans... DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #15

Because for her and her ilk 2naSalit Jan 2015 #19

Yes. And that's the kind of criticism I would expect. unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #29

The guffaws are because people don't believe that a whole bus full of kids pnwmom Jan 2015 #37

She didn't mention a word about boots. She said she wore them over her SHOES pnwmom Jan 2015 #36

Everyone wore them, according to her Mariana Jan 2015 #38

She's full of shit notadmblnd Jan 2015 #8

She claimed it was due to poverty so it would never have been all of them. In saying this she jwirr Jan 2015 #14

Probably most of them did. Yo_Mama Jan 2015 #17

If "The breadbags go over the shoes, which go inside the boots." how did she see them? DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #23

That's not how she described them -- she mentioned no boots, and she said pnwmom Jan 2015 #34

Who said you were? NCTraveler Jan 2015 #20

That whole story was bullshit gopiscrap Jan 2015 #21

Link please Munificence Jan 2015 #32

What tom foolery is this? Sheepshank Jan 2015 #28

I grew up in Ohio, 1970s ..and we used bread bags. LeftinOH Jan 2015 #30

Inside your shoes or encasing them? pnwmom Jan 2015 #35

Then she was on the 'special' bus. LeftinOH Jan 2015 #39

We have yet to get a satisfactory answer to that./NT DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #40

Her family could afford bread bags? greatauntoftriplets Jan 2015 #31

True that, Moon Boots= Everyone has to wear breadbags or have wet freezing toes. n/t kickysnana Jan 2015 #33

I don't care whether they did or not. winter is coming Jan 2015 #41