Moving "When I Was Your Age"

When I was your age, we had to move houses on public transport. We packed everything we owned – and it wasn’t half as much as you kids nowadays – into suitcases and shopping bags - not our shopping bags mind you, we had to sneak them from our old landlord while she was at work. We ate soup for a whole month just so we could catch the bus to the train station. We had to change trains 3 times – in those days the train lines were all on different levels – and had to carry our luggage up to street level at the last stop. We carried the bags to the landlord’s place and then on to ours and up the four flights of stairs to our studio – and we were thankful – but not half as thankful as we were after we finished the second trip...