You Know You Are Old When

[not2old]

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OK, common core math rant off

I took a year off of math to pick up some other courses in grade 13. When I got back to math in college, it had changed so much that I was completely lost. I had work out all my problems with the old math and then work backwards to the new math in order to get credit for the problem. This was my first experience learning that the idiots running things often had no idea how the real world works.

 

[not2old]

Along with age comes new problems, my furnace located in the attic with access in a closet quit working.
To repair furnace. First empty closet (major job), get ladder, climb up through a small access hole and fix it. I "think" I can get up into the attic but I know I'll never get back down. At my age (85) you loose your flexibility, getting up and down can be a problem and living alone I can't take to many chances.
First time I have ever had to have someone come to my house to fix anything.
$545 for parts, $150 service call, $169 technician time plus tax.
Cost to repair $864.39 something I could have done for less than $350.

You know your old when you brain says, you can do it, but your body says, no you can't.

Mine doesn't reply that politely!!!!

 

[orezok]

When they started putting in padded dash tops in the late 60s they'd overhang a couple inches. If you weren't careful your knuckles would hit the dash pad going into 2nd and sometimes prevent it from going into gear. Not sure how it was with GM cars, but was a PITA on Mopars.

I taught my sisters how to drive manual on my mother's Saab with 4 in the tree. Had to be careful not to bump the wiper lever when you'd shift, especially for those of us with large hands.
Anyone remember the free wheeling on those cars? Hard to describe to someone who's never driven with it, but if it was engaged it would essentially put the car in neutral and let it coast if you let off on the gas. I suppose it saved a little gas, but you had no engine braking.

The early Saabs had 2 stroke engines. Running long times with the throttle closed at higher RPM reduced the amount of lubrication. Thus freewheeling.

 

[sixdogs]

Whitewalls??? I even have white tires.

Bought the the set 2019
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Very impressive.

 

[masseyrider]

There were over 100 under the hood.

tight fit?

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

tight fit?

Shoot no...actually room for more

 

[Creamer]

How about Downton Julie Brown? I met her once - that lady had presence. She also had a master's degree in electrical engineering but the Gig on MTV paid a lot better.

Mtv self destructed and turned out into reality TV shows of more modern generations dealing with lifes struggles, which they participated in creating imo. Pet peeve worthy. Anyone remember MTV's video DJs like Kurt loder etc?

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[MoKelly]

I guess you are old when you remember coloring and looking for real eggs on Easter. There were always one or two you didn’t find initially but then found a few days later after they began to smell.

Today everyone seems to use plastic eggs with Candy or coins inside.

Happy Easter all!

 

[Oaktree]

The early Saabs had 2 stroke engines. Running long times with the throttle closed at higher RPM reduced the amount of lubrication. Thus freewheeling.

Yeah, I've seen a couple of those at classic car shows. My mothers was a 4 stroke (mid-60s vintage). Never knew the history behind it, just figured it was a fuel economy thing.

I guess you are old when you remember coloring and looking for real eggs on Easter. There were always one or two you didn’t find initially but then found a few days later after they began to smell.

Today everyone seems to use plastic eggs with Candy or coins inside.

We don't generally observe Easter any more as a family holiday, but when I was a kid my grandfather used to color them by boiling the eggs in onion peels, made them a golden brown color. My siblings and I would also do the regular store coloring kits (Paas?) too.
I never liked hardboiled eggs myself, but we had a tradition at dinner of 2 people cracking their eggs together around the table. Last person with an unbroken shell "won". Anyone else do this?

 

[MossRoad]

The early Saabs had 2 stroke engines. Running long times with the throttle closed at higher RPM reduced the amount of lubrication. Thus freewheeling.

My first boss at my last job said her dad bought her and her sister a Messerschmitt 3 wheel car to drive to high school. She said they'd put oil in the gas tank, add the gas, then grab the bumper and shake the car.

She also said on many occasions, they'd pull up into the parking lot and a bunch of boys would run up and lift the car off the ground and shake it around with them inside it. She said it was great fun.

 

[jjeff]

Deviled eggs and Egg salad sandwiches are good to make with the dozen or so eggs after Easter, the kids colored with paas dye. I'm lost trying to just find regular egg dye you dunk an egg in with those wire holders. Unfortunately no eggs dyed this this year. Experimented over the he years my favorite is dukes mayo, mixture of sweet and dill relish , celery salt and a touch of paprika is my tastiest egg salad mixture. Snow drift, lol
Happy Easter.

 

[Jstpssng]

Deviled eggs and Egg salad sandwiches are good to make with the dozen or so eggs after Easter, the kids colored with paas dye. I'm lost trying to just find regular egg dye you dunk an egg in with those wire holders. Unfortunately no eggs dyed this this year. Experimented over the he years my favorite is dukes mayo, mixture of sweet and dill relish , celery salt and a touch of paprika is my tastiest egg salad mixture. Snow drift, lol
Happy Easter.

We always used food coloring. I've never been much of an egg eater even though I had laying hens for 10+ years and probably will have them again. Yet deviled eggs are my favorite way to eat them.
Your recipe for egg salad sounds tastier than what I make, although I do sometimes dump a can of tiny shrimp in with it.

 

[jjeff]

For me anyway, seafood mixed with eggs is one thing that doesn't appeal to me. If I know the egg salads going to get eaten in a day I do cut up onion sometimes celery. In kind of keeping with thread that's how my late mom made it, years back.

 

[newbury]

I guess you are old when you remember coloring and looking for real eggs on Easter. There were always one or two you didn’t find initially but then found a few days later after they began to smell.
Happy Easter all!

We had (eventually) 4 children and 1 black lab (that grew to a muscular 80 lbs) with a 1/8 acre fenced in lot in the back.
Easter morning egg hunts were -
I go in the back, hide hard boiled eggs the children had colored.
The children spent hours looking for eggs.
They finally give up, always seeming to miss several eggs.
Then I release Lady, the lab. She'd clean up the rest of the eggs.
In later years I'm pretty sure they left some eggs on purpose.

 

[Jstpssng]

We had (eventually) 4 children and 1 black lab (that grew to a muscular 80 lbs) with a 1/8 acre fenced in lot in the back.
Easter morning egg hunts were -
I go in the back, hide hard boiled eggs the children had colored.
The children spent hours looking for eggs.
They finally give up, always seeming to miss several eggs.
Then I release Lady, the lab. She'd clean up the rest of the eggs.
In later years I'm pretty sure they left some eggs on purpose.

My last lab did similar... sort of. My hens sometimes laid eggs on the ground. He wasn't long scoffing them up.

 

[JethroB]

I guess you are old when you remember coloring and looking for real eggs on Easter. There were always one or two you didn’t find initially but then found a few days later after they began to smell.

Today everyone seems to use plastic eggs with Candy or coins inside.

Happy Easter all!

And the house smelled of vinegar from dyeing the Easter eggs. The little metal ring used to lower and lift the eggs into those old coffee cups full of dye. Memories.

 

[chiefcook]

I took a year off of math to pick up some other courses in grade 13. When I got back to math in college, it had changed so much that I was completely lost. I had work out all my problems with the old math and then work backwards to the new math in order to get credit for the problem. This was my first experience learning that the idiots running things often had no idea how the real world works.

When I went back to college after vietnam I failed the new math algebra. Took it again in summer school. The first section was old algebra. I made 100 on the first test. Failed the others. But. Got a D for the class which met my requirements. Trig and geometry had not changed much and was no problem.

 

[Creamer]

If a contractor copped an attitude like that towards me, I'd look for another contractor. Part of being in business is being available when it's convenient for your (potential) customers.

Where do you live that good Friday is considered a holiday?

I have a few contractor friends and I was talking toone of them a couple of years ago and asked what happened to another contractor that was no longer around. His reply was that this guy was very rigid in his days off and would not go out to see jobs. He said that he used the opposite approach he tried to be available when the customers were to set it up and then he got his work crews lined up and took the time off during the week to balance it out. He focused on making it easy on his customers and then he found himself putting in less hours because he didn't have to work as hard getting the jobs.

 

[Creamer]

Stock market is closed on Good Friday.

And on a lot of other government/banking holidays that most people do not take off.

 

[Jstpssng]

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