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This is yet another rubbish US-centric meme, but I'm bored and it's Friday so what the heck.
1. Father went to college.
2. Father finished college.
3. Mother went to college.
4. Mother finished college.
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. Nearly: my Father was a maths teacher in various public schools before moving to Devon to take up the family businesses. He would probably have gone on to be head of department, even a headmaster, which I guess merits the title "Professor", if he hadn't.
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. I didn't give it any thought, and besides never saw where most of my teachers lived. But the area I grew up in is solidly middle-class and so is my school and family.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
10.Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18. Violin/viola, briefly the trumpet, swimming.
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively. Nobody in the media dresses or talks like me. That's why they're in the media and I'm not.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18.
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs. I had some savings of my own that I used, and had to rely on a loan one year, but I mostly got through on grants and my parents' goodwill.
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs.
16. Went to a private high school.
17. Went to summer camp. Ahh, but Summer was The Camp. As in Hillhead Campsite, which my family owned and ran, and where I spent a lot of time both working and playing during the summer holidays. Otherwise there were always my grandparents to look after us when we were younger.
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels. Pretty much all of them. Given the times of year we went on holiday (out-of-season given our Summers were given over to servicing holidaymakers) that was pretty much essential.
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. My 21st birthday present was a car (I got to choose it though). A Skoda Favorit.
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child. There were plenty of paintings and pictures, some of them were certainly originals.
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house.
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home. In as much as they never had (to my knowledge) a mortgage until they built an extension to my grandparents' house when we moved in (and my grandparents moved out), yep.
25. You had your own room as a child. Pretty much out of necessity: 1 boy, 2 girls. So my sisters got to share, until we moved (see above) and each had a room to ourselves.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18.
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school. It was a rubbish black-and-white TV permanently attached to my old Commodore 64, but it counts. (My sisters had a colour telly.)
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college. Yerwot? Whatever that means, I certainly didn't have any.
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16. Plenty of times. Most notably to Florida when I was 14.
31. Went on a cruise with your family.
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family. Med 1979, Norway 1984, Med (again) 1989, all about the Canberra.
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up. I learned to appreciate them as I got older, as most kids probably do.
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your home was. The bills came in envelopes with my Dad's name on them. I was brought up only to open letters addressed to myself. So naturally I have no clue as to the figures printed on those bills.
1. Father went to college.
2. Father finished college.
3. Mother went to college.
4. Mother finished college.
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. Nearly: my Father was a maths teacher in various public schools before moving to Devon to take up the family businesses. He would probably have gone on to be head of department, even a headmaster, which I guess merits the title "Professor", if he hadn't.
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. I didn't give it any thought, and besides never saw where most of my teachers lived. But the area I grew up in is solidly middle-class and so is my school and family.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
10.Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18. Violin/viola, briefly the trumpet, swimming.
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively. Nobody in the media dresses or talks like me. That's why they're in the media and I'm not.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18.
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs. I had some savings of my own that I used, and had to rely on a loan one year, but I mostly got through on grants and my parents' goodwill.
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs.
16. Went to a private high school.
17. Went to summer camp. Ahh, but Summer was The Camp. As in Hillhead Campsite, which my family owned and ran, and where I spent a lot of time both working and playing during the summer holidays. Otherwise there were always my grandparents to look after us when we were younger.
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels. Pretty much all of them. Given the times of year we went on holiday (out-of-season given our Summers were given over to servicing holidaymakers) that was pretty much essential.
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. My 21st birthday present was a car (I got to choose it though). A Skoda Favorit.
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child. There were plenty of paintings and pictures, some of them were certainly originals.
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house.
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home. In as much as they never had (to my knowledge) a mortgage until they built an extension to my grandparents' house when we moved in (and my grandparents moved out), yep.
25. You had your own room as a child. Pretty much out of necessity: 1 boy, 2 girls. So my sisters got to share, until we moved (see above) and each had a room to ourselves.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18.
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school. It was a rubbish black-and-white TV permanently attached to my old Commodore 64, but it counts. (My sisters had a colour telly.)
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college. Yerwot? Whatever that means, I certainly didn't have any.
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16. Plenty of times. Most notably to Florida when I was 14.
31. Went on a cruise with your family.
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family. Med 1979, Norway 1984, Med (again) 1989, all about the Canberra.
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up. I learned to appreciate them as I got older, as most kids probably do.
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your home was. The bills came in envelopes with my Dad's name on them. I was brought up only to open letters addressed to myself. So naturally I have no clue as to the figures printed on those bills.
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