[alaskayorkie]

I saw this topic on another forum and wasn't sure what to think of it at first. The OP started out by saying that, hey, the economy sucks, gas prices are ridiculous, a lot of us are struggling. How about sharing a story about the times in your life when you've struggled? Laughter is the best medicine.

On the other forum, everyone loved it. I thought it was worth a try here. It doesn't have to be about now. Just any time in your life when you've struggled.

In my 20s, I lived in a house in Truckee, Calif., with three roommates and five dogs. We were all relatively broke, but I was the moocher of the house. I was always "borrowing" stuff out of the fridge and promising to pay them back later.

I hit my begging worst one week when we had a 3-foot snowstorm and I was snowbound in the house alone for three days because all the roads were closed. And there was almost no food to be found. I starved for much of the first day, but on the second day I noticed an onion. Hmmm. Onion rings! Only I was a terrible cook. I ended up finding some flour to roll the onions in. I heated up some oil in a frying pan and gave it a whirl. They were horribly soggy and bland, but I ate the entire onion.

It wasn't until a week later that I admitted it. A roommate who could cook was suddenly missing an onion she knew she had. I'll never live that one down. "You ate my onion?????"

What can I say? I was hungry. And poor. And the onion was what I needed at the time.

C'mon, YTers, fess up.
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