HOW POOR WERE YOU?

       This past week I was talking to one of the young guys working on finishing up detail work around our new apartment complex here in West Des Moines. Somehow the subject matter got around to "the old days" and how poor some of his relatives were.

         He mentioned that his Grandpa always talked about being so poor that they lived in a one BR house and that their second bedroom was a "chicken house" where the two brothers slept. I laughed fairly hard because I never heard that situation before.