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Roger Gregory’s letter to the paper (Daily Bee, Feb. 20) explaining one of life’s true economic barometers and neighborhood status symbols as to whether or not one had a pot to pee in to sell to a tannery, brought back memories of my own politically correct upbringing.

My father would, from time to time, use the descriptive phrase to mean that someone didn’t have a pot to pee in nor a window to throw it out of. I’m guessing the meaning was that even if the poor bugger had a pee pot he couldn’t take a leak in private.

At times I would be feeling flush, as I had two nickels to rub together, but was still not flush enough to buy a wrestling jacket for a piss ant. Still can’t.

PAT GOOBY

Sandpoint