You Know You Are Old When

[Fuddyduddy1952]

When I was 15 there were two sisters I liked to visit about 2 miles away so I rode my bicycle through a trail in the woods. Coming back one evening it got dark and I mean pitch black dark. I had to walk the bike until I found a tree, go around and continue. (I had a generator light ). I finally got to a fence I knew was ours and made it home.
I figured if I met a bear the bicycle could be a weapon.

 

[masseyrider]

Same here except distance to a streetlight was closer to 10 miles. When it got dark, it got DARK.

Couple years ago they were redoing the street lights down my street. There was one going in across the street right in front of a couple major windows.
I had to slip the head guy a Texas Mickey to skip it so the front of my house wasn't lit up like a carnaval side show.
I miss the night being the night.
For ***** sake, it's a dead end street with almost no traffic. How many lights do you really need?

 

[lman]

What's a street light???

What's a street? We have roads around here.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

What's a street? We have roads around here.

I grew up in the country off of a major highway. There weren't any lights anywhere until the late 60s.

 

[lman]

When I was a kid, it seemed that all of the farms had overhead security yard lights that I assume the electric co-ops pushed.

 

[MoKelly]

What's a street? We have roads around here.

I always thought a street was paved and a road was rock and dirt.

 

[WinterDeere]

I always thought a street was paved and a road was rock and dirt.

Nope. Streets are local, roads go somewhere. Hence a "road map" covers a larger region (e.g. state or tri-county) than a "street map" (i.e. city/town).

Now, if you're from eastern PA, you'll probably have one road running thru your town called "Street Road". I'm still not sure what to make of that.

 

[masseyrider]

What's a street? We have roads around here.

I am zoned agricultural but within the city boundary. My side of the Welland Canal is country but the other is all subdivision.

 

[MoKelly]

Nope. Streets are local, roads go somewhere. Hence a "road map" covers a larger region (e.g. state or tri-county) than a "street map" (i.e. city/town).

Now, if you're from eastern PA, you'll probably have one road running thru your town called "Street Road". I'm still not sure what to make of that.

I go by this:

 

[MoKelly]

Fantastic song by the way! Love Brooks & Dunn.

 

[deserteagle71]

When I was a kid, it seemed that all of the farms had overhead security yard lights that I assume the electric co-ops pushed.

Yup. I grew up with one of those on our farm in Pennsylvania. Hated it. Night is supposed to be dark! During the summer that light would have a very visible huge cloud of bugs swirling around it.

 

[Oaktree]

Yup. I grew up with one of those on our farm in Pennsylvania. Hated it. Night is supposed to be dark! During the summer that light would have a very visible huge cloud of bugs swirling around it.

This place had one when we bought it. Told the electric company I didn't want it (for the same reason as you), and they just took the charge off the bill, but left the light connected. A few months later I put in a new electrical panel and service entrance, and they ran new wires to the house from the transformer bypassing the pole with the light.

 

[stuckmotor]

You know you're old when:
You count Your medications and realize you could emulate sixdogs and change your TBN name to sevenpills.

 

[Jstpssng]

You know you're old when:
You count Your medications and realize you could emulate SixDogs and change your TBN name to SevenPills.

As long as it's just pills and not needles...

 

[stuckmotor]

As long as it's just pills and not needles...

I should be thankful for that.

 

[Hay Dude]

Nope. Streets are local, roads go somewhere. Hence a "road map" covers a larger region (e.g. state or tri-county) than a "street map" (i.e. city/town).

Now, if you're from eastern PA, you'll probably have one road running thru your town called "Street Road". I'm still not sure what to make of that.

Yeah we have a Street Road (926) here near the PA/DE border.

 

[masseyrider]

You is old when everything exciting you talk about happened decades ago.
"I remember this blonde with..."
Now it's, "The old biddy I met on the cruise and I danced the afternoon away."

 

[Oaktree]

Nope. Streets are local, roads go somewhere. Hence a "road map" covers a larger region (e.g. state or tri-county) than a "street map" (i.e. city/town).

I think of "street" as city/town, "road" as more rural. The road I live on doesn't really go anywhere.

Now, if you're from eastern PA, you'll probably have one road running thru your town called "Street Road". I'm still not sure what to make of that.

Must be a regional thing. Lots of regionalisms with naming of roads...on the west coast they seem to add "the" to any route # ("the 302"). In the midwest they seem to use letters as opposed to numbers for roads. When I was a kid we visited some relatives on eastern Long Island and many of the street/road names were possessive; "Smith's Rd." vs "Smith Rd.".

 

[stuckmotor]

I think of "street" as city/town, "road" as more rural. The road I live on doesn't really go anywhere.


Must be a regional thing. Lots of regionalisms with naming of roads...on the west coast they seem to add "the" to any route # ("the 302"). In the midwest they seem to use letters as opposed to numbers for roads. When I was a kid we visited some relatives on eastern Long Island and many of the street/road names were possessive; "Smith's Rd." vs "Smith Rd.".

Could Smith's Road have been the location of an actual blacksmith's shop?

 

[Oaktree]

Could Smith's Road have been the location of an actual blacksmith's shop?

Just made that up as an example, it seemed any road that was someone's last name was possessive.