Culture (Five Minute Friday)

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This week the word prompt is culture. Hubby used to say that I was “culturally deprived”. I didn’t grow up going to the ballet, symphony, opera, or fancy restaurants. We grew up poor and were only exposed to the “arts” when we went with school field trips.  The fanciest restaurants we went to when we were growing up were places like MCL Cafeteria, Ponderosa Steakhouse, Gray Bros. Cafeteria, and Famous Recipe Fried Chicken. I don’t blame my parents for this. They had two adults and four hungry kids to feed and we didn’t go out very often, probably not even once a month. There certainly wasn’t any extra funds to pay for cultural events. If we wanted things while we were growing up, that was fine, but we had to earn the money to cover the cost ourselves. I began working when I was about ten years old delivering the afternoon newspaper six days a week. We went on very few vacations because dad was a barber who worked Monday through Saturday and delivered the morning newspaper seven days a week. It was too expensive to pay someone to run the routes for a weekend and then it was difficult to find someone who cared enough to do a good job as a substitute carrier.

Yes, I grew up poor, but I didn’t realize it at the time I was living it. I asked hubby again just now if he would still consider me “culturally deprived” and he said, yes because I still haven’t learned to appreciate the finer things in life. For what it’s worth, I think he is right about me being culturally deprived but not about me not appreciating the finer things in life. I do appreciate them, but perhaps what I consider the finer things isn’t that same as what other folks would consider them to be. Perhaps culture is over-rated.

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Culture
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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