Time passes on.....

[Warren Sear]

What! you don't know how to drive a stick shift?

When I was a kid I had a car with a manual transmission (still do), and I remember some old farts where I worked were giving me the business about how when they were young the transmissions didn't have syncronized gears, and how a dumb kid like me wouldn't be able to drive one. I supposed they were right, but I remember thinking that if idiots like them could learn how to do it, I could too.

My point is that I have never been impressed by irritable, sour old crabs telling me how rough things were back before the earth cooled, and how dumb kids are today. I could have handed them a computer and they wouldn't have known how to even turn it on, so I guess it works both ways.

 

[Golddollar]

"And the phone worked??

As far as I know it did.

 

[Cellar Hound]

Exactly!!

Then as time went on vehicle entertainment systems advanced to the big honkin 8 track player screwed to the bottom of the dash board with open wires connecting to whatever you could find to make it work. Nothing like your favorite tune stopping mid way through as it clunks and advances to the next track.

......and pulling up the carpet to run wires to where I would cut two holes in the shelf behind the back seat and put in two Jensen triaxial speakers.....

Insert 8-track tape with Foghat Live.....Done!!

 

[amazingflapjack]

old trucks...

Had an old dodge Truck with the starter on the floor above the gas peddle you had to use the toe of your boot to push the Starter and your heel to push the gas while pulling the choke. Headlight Dimmer switch next to the clutch peddle... If you wanted to open the hood you had to find that darn latch somewhere hidden inside the shiny chrome grill.

Rob

I was at Publix a while back in my 1980 F-150. I was loading up when a gent brought his child/grand child over and pushed them into where the door was open and said "see, that's how they used to get the windows down" as he pointed to the window crank.

 

[amazingflapjack]

We can all sit down and breath through our noses after Crazy Phil-JMHO.

 

[llowry61]

I used the phrase, we want to be "the men in white hats" the kids I work with looked at me like I was having a tiny little stroke and losing it. I explained that in the westerns the good guys wore the white hats and the bad guys wore the black hats, thus we were trying to be the good guys. Anyone else ever heard that phrase ?

 

[Golddollar]

I used the phrase, we want to be "the men in white hats" the kids I work with looked at me like I was having a tiny little stroke and losing it. I explained that in the westerns the good guys wore the white hats and the bad guys wore the black hats, thus we were trying to be the good guys. Anyone else ever heard that phrase ?

All the time!

 

[shouldazagged]

I used the phrase, we want to be "the men in white hats" the kids I work with looked at me like I was having a tiny little stroke and losing it. I explained that in the westerns the good guys wore the white hats and the bad guys wore the black hats, thus we were trying to be the good guys. Anyone else ever heard that phrase ?

Lots of adults still use it. But they seem to be the ones on Social Security.

 

[Golddollar]

Lots of adults still use it. But they seem to be the ones on Social Security.

I resemble that remark!

 

[BC38]

...I remember hearing when I was a kid was "old people" saying the older you were, the faster time went. I thought they were crazy...

Yeah, life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer you get to the end, the faster it seems to go...

 

[Dave from Pa]

How about taking your 22 rifles to school and leaving them in the coatroom all day, so you and your friends could shoot rats at the dump after school. And no one ever worried about or considered threatening to shoot anyone else at school with half a dozen rifles and ammo in the coatroom.

We never took them to school, but after school about 5 or 6 of us would walk through town with rifles in hand to the dump to shoot rats.Felt we were providing a service to everyone in town.Can`t imagine kids doing that today.

 

[Old TexMex]

When I was a kid I had a car with a manual transmission (still do), and I remember some old farts where I worked were giving me the business about how when they were young the transmissions didn't have syncronized gears, and how a dumb kid like me wouldn't be able to drive one. I supposed they were right, but I remember thinking that if idiots like them could learn how to do it, I could too.

My point is that I have never been impressed by irritable, sour old crabs telling me how rough things were back before the earth cooled, and how dumb kids are today. I could have handed them a computer and they wouldn't have known how to even turn it on, so I guess it works both ways.

I know what you mean.

Irritable, sour anybodies never impress me, I kind of like to think that learning shouldn't be lost, just because it isn't fashionable. Being unable to function without wi fi, smart phones, chinese imports and dependence on social services is not, in my view, a quality of progress.

Being crabby isn't a requirement for senior citizens, but I'll bet "kids these days!" is a statement that has been uttered since man first made fire by rubbing two sticks.

 

[misswired]

When popcorn was popped in a pan on the stove with real butter melting in another pan.

 

[labworm]

Anyone remember going downtown at night to do a little window shopping.

All the stores had large lit windows displaying their goods.
You just walked from one to another and drooled.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Kid to his grandfather: "Grandpa, you couldn't have had popcorn when you were little!"

Grandfather: "Why do you say that?"

Kid: "They didn't have microwaves back then!"

John

 

[mike from st pete]

My telephone number was LU(ther)9 5982.

 

[Rustyt1953]

My telephone number was LU(ther)9 5982.

MU(rray2-4606. Black, straight cord, party line.

 

[oneounceload]

In '69, my computer class involved IBM punch card machines, plugboards, plug cables and 50 miles of perforated computer paper.

When I was in college in the mid 70s, they required every freshman to take a course in Basc which tied up the computers for the computer science majors. All those punch cards! SO one of my frat brothers went in late one night and told that IBM mainframe to calculate, and print, the value of Pi to the last digit. After several hours and more than a few cases of paper, someone decided to shut it down..........The school got the hint and then started reserving time for the computer guys to have access.

 

[AZretired]

I fondly remember the days before cell phones. My oldest grandson has no recollection of NOT having a cell phone. My wife and I were at IHOP yesterday and saw three 30ish near us all texting or Facebooking on their phone and not talking to each other!!

When I first started in LE I had a petrol area that included 35 miles of I-40 and everything north & south for 25 miles each way. No coffee shops/restaurants/ Phone booths/ only 1 Gas station except at the west end of the Interstate.

 

[CajunBass]

Being crabby isn't a requirement for senior citizens, but I'll bet "kids these days!" is a statement that has been uttered since man first made fire by rubbing two sticks.

I remember my father grumbling about "that hippie music" when I was a teenager. My mother quickly reminded him that their parents thought they were all going to hell in a handbag for listening to Frank Sinatra.

HER mother's, mother, that would been my great grandmother if I've got it right, thought my grandmother was headed that way for being a flapper. I've seen the pictures.