For Those Older than 60.
Mar 4, 2016 06:45:35 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
I thought milk delivery was long gone, but I know ... (show quote)
At least you wrote in between the original quote making it interesting
Mar 4, 2016 06:48:43 #
geezer7
Loc: Michigan
DaveO wrote:
A little inflation! I delivered the paper 6 days for a total of 30 cents and I kept 8 cents.
Yep! I remember delivering the Toronto Star for 30 cents a week and when the price went up to 35 cents half of my customers quit!
Mar 4, 2016 07:02:15 #
Well I guess I am older than dirt. It does bring back a lot of memories of a more simple time for me.
Mar 4, 2016 07:06:53 #
wendallb wrote:
Well I guess I am older than dirt. It does bring back a lot of memories of a more simple time for me.
It seems that way,but post war was not affluent. Perhaps we had fewer distractions and simpler wants and needs......
Mar 4, 2016 07:43:08 #
I would like to see the list OUR GRANDPARENTS would have made.
Sitting around the radio and driving a model T down the dirt roads with no traffic lights. How they would build houses with raw wood that they cut by hand. When they went from oil lamps to the light bulbs? I remember my mother telling me they use to get ice cream cones for 1cent and a double for 2cents. When did they go from out houses to toilets in their homes? So many changes in life. You had to go outside to play with your friends face to face not on your cell phone. You could see and talk with them and see their facial expressions so you knew if they were telling the truth or just joking with you.
Sitting around the radio and driving a model T down the dirt roads with no traffic lights. How they would build houses with raw wood that they cut by hand. When they went from oil lamps to the light bulbs? I remember my mother telling me they use to get ice cream cones for 1cent and a double for 2cents. When did they go from out houses to toilets in their homes? So many changes in life. You had to go outside to play with your friends face to face not on your cell phone. You could see and talk with them and see their facial expressions so you knew if they were telling the truth or just joking with you.
Mar 4, 2016 07:45:41 #
:thumbup: No air-conditioning, just fans, Saturdays at the picture show, doors unlocked..
Mar 4, 2016 07:46:46 #
Mar 4, 2016 07:56:41 #
I remember each and every one of those things. We had a '552 Studebaker, and the people down the street had a Packard.
Remember the starter button under the clutch pedal? Good safety feature.
I still have a tripod I got with S&H green stamps.
Does the driving test still require the use of hand signals?
Remember the starter button under the clutch pedal? Good safety feature.
I still have a tripod I got with S&H green stamps.
Does the driving test still require the use of hand signals?
Mar 4, 2016 08:04:11 #
Mar 4, 2016 08:05:17 #
bluescreek wrote:
:thumbup: No air-conditioning, just fans, Saturdays at the picture show, doors unlocked..
We called air-conditioning "rolling down the windows and doing 70mph" that was our air conditioning lol
Mar 4, 2016 08:09:54 #
Yes Older than dirt but those were the good old days, tuff bringing up kids today.
Mar 4, 2016 08:15:56 #
DaveO wrote:
Bank hours? How could anyone survive?
How could we pay the Fuller Brush man or the Avon lady??
How could we pay the Fuller Brush man or the Avon lady??
I never thought of my father as witty, but one time he bought a shaving brush (remember those?) from the Fuller Brush man, and not long after all the bristles fell out. The next time the guy came to the door and announced himself my father said, "No you're not, you're the Fuller S**T man!" and closed the door on him.
Mar 4, 2016 08:16:16 #
jerryc41 wrote:
...Does the driving test still require the use of hand signals?
I was told by a driving instructor that hand signals are still taught in schools but not required for the test. They should be.
My old tractor doesn't have turn signals. I use hand signals, but even when I signal a left turn, people pass me on the left as if they don't know what that means.
Mar 4, 2016 08:20:19 #
I guess I also qualify as "old as dirt". At least based on this quiz -- I remember all but 1 or 2 items on the list.
At work, most of my co-workers are younger than my youngest child. Many years younger.
At work, most of my co-workers are younger than my youngest child. Many years younger.
Mar 4, 2016 08:21:11 #
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