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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Honest question to all, do any of us actually know poor people to the extent of knowing their spending habits? Any middle class? Not talking about the secretary you talk to 15 minutes, actual familiarity with their lives. Curious not being argumentative.
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When my MIL went to "kidnap" her brother, suffering from brain cancer and in a nursing home she found unacceptable in Illinois, to take him on a "road trip" to the VA in Omaha, she and my wife stayed with a cousin who had been caring for the brother/uncle. The cousin offered dinner of sliced ham on white bread. This what the cousin and his wife brought with them for the "road trip." Once in Omaha, the cousin was planning to sleep in their minivan. I put them up in the Hampton Inn, telling them it was with points because they would not have accepted the money for it, and they were awfully impressed.
After dropping the brother off in at the VA, the cousin and his wife went on a vacation road trip to South Dakota, sleeping in the van and still eating that ham and white bread. I'm pretty sure they went to the Badlands National Park.
Anyway, yeah, lots of people of limited means take road trips to parks.
