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"You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of 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." ~ Joni Ernst
Is there anyone that grew up in a cold and/or wet clime who didn't do this? My takeaway on Joni's tugging at our heartstrings story is; Joni had one pair of good shoes - that's one more pair of good shoes than anyone in my neighborhood had.
Today the Pac-10 and NFL provide warm and wet weather gear to their officials, but as recent as the late '90's, I had a guy working for me that was also a Pac-10 ref - ...to protect their feet, the officials would take plastic bread bags...
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"You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of 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." ~ Joni Ernst
Is there anyone that grew up in a cold and/or wet clime who didn't do this? My takeaway on Joni's tugging at our heartstrings story is; Joni had one pair of good shoes - that's one more pair of good shoes than anyone in my neighborhood had.
Today the Pac-10 and NFL provide warm and wet weather gear to their officials, but as recent as the late '90's, I had a guy working for me that was also a Pac-10 ref - ...to protect their feet, the officials would take plastic bread bags...
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