Lostrider
05-09-2005, 22:22
Anyone remember the money lenders?
The man my mother used would park his car on the other side of the street so the neighbours wouldnt know. I would have to take the money to pay him so he would give us some more money. My mother didnt like him coming to the house ( shame I suppose).
That was in the fifties, When everyone came to the door for their money, the rent man, milk man, paper man, insurance man etc. No such thing as direct debits in those days.
In the sixties I think she changed to Shop-a-check.
I once had a bad cough and was off school, the rent man was coming up the path and she didnt have any money to pay him. She stuffs this cushion over my face to muffle the sound of the coughing so he wouldnt know we were in. The more I coughed, the harder she pressed the cushion over my face. Nearly suffocated me she did.
The man my mother used would park his car on the other side of the street so the neighbours wouldnt know. I would have to take the money to pay him so he would give us some more money. My mother didnt like him coming to the house ( shame I suppose).
That was in the fifties, When everyone came to the door for their money, the rent man, milk man, paper man, insurance man etc. No such thing as direct debits in those days.
In the sixties I think she changed to Shop-a-check.
I once had a bad cough and was off school, the rent man was coming up the path and she didnt have any money to pay him. She stuffs this cushion over my face to muffle the sound of the coughing so he wouldnt know we were in. The more I coughed, the harder she pressed the cushion over my face. Nearly suffocated me she did.