Originally Posted by Far-L

Dude. My father was the son of a plumber. My dad was a Ph.D mathmatician that worked for IBM but we were never above middle class. We got in the schools we did based on scholastic and athletic merits and my dad had to get help to pay for it regardless. I borrowed money from my mother, who got a second mortgage on her condo, to buy the biz from bankruptcy and turn it into what it is today. Most of my education came from being on the road following the Dead around. We paid her back and kept paying until she left this world. My brother got into Stanford for his swimming and the fact that he was a prefect and an A student, all things that had to be earned, not given freely.

I know what AD is referring to because I went to school with the super elite, as did my bro.

You know everyone thought the Beatles came from money and the Stones from the other side of the tracks when the exact opposite was true. Assumptions... well... we all know how assumptions work...

And you seem to be making a lot of those these days. Don't harm yourself with assumptions unless you want to Markharm yourself with presumptions.