You Know You Are Old When

[domin]

Well almost 4pm here, so I guess I missed the mail lady today. She usually swings thru before 3pm. Will keep an eye out in coming days.

I hope you didn't miss her today. this thread has me laughing way too hard — totally relatable. I saw some arlo reviews earlier about people complaining the app was “too modern,” and it made me think of this exact conversation. Guess we all reach that point where new tech feels like sorcery. At least we can still laugh about it! Getting older isn’t bad when you’ve got humor on your side

 

[WinterDeere]

I hope you didn't miss her today

hah... nope! Watched her pull in the driveway, but I was half way across the lawn on the mower, and she was sprinting to the front door and back, clearly in a rush. I figured I didn't need to hold her up on a day she's clearly rushing, just to satisfy my idle curiousity. I'm sure I'll have another chance, soon enough.

 

[BackRoad]

^^^^ It's a Friday-wanna-get-home thing...

 

[tallyho8]

Two of my grandkids were born in the 1900s.

My father was born in the 1800s, I was born in the 1900s and my grandson was born in the 2000s.

 

[WinterDeere]

^^^^ It's a Friday-wanna-get-home thing...

She's attractive and single older lady... probably had a date that evening!

 

[orezok]

 

[Oaktree]

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Control mechanism for a garage lift?

 

[NoTrespassing]

I'm the baby of the family by 18 years. My father was born in 1905 and likely in the old country. He also was the baby of the family and his parents were born in the era of the US civil war. My grandparents.

Their parents, my great-grandparents were born around 1830. That is nearly 200 years with three generations. It boggles me.

My Dad's grandfather fought in the civil war. He had my dad's father in 1900, so he was in his 50's. My dad was born in 1941.

I didn't have my son until I was 48, so we skipped a couple generations too. My son's great great grandfather fought in the civil war and he's only 13.

Side note: We believe my great grandfather fought in place of another man. Likely a man of means who bought his way out of the fighting.

The Union draft began a year after Confederate conscription and operated somewhat differently. Each loyal state was divided into recruiting districts, and each district had a quota to meet based on population. When the recruiting district failed to meet its quota through volunteers, soldiers would be drafted by lottery among men between the ages of 20 and 45—as well as immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship. If a man’s name was selected by the lottery—he had three options: enlist, find (and pay) a substitute to take his place, or pay a $300 commutation fee that exempted him from that round of the draft. In 1860, $300 would have been the equivalent of the annual wage of an unskilled laborer.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

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I can HEAR it! Distinctly. Used one so many times. Left: "fffwwwooooppp...thunk...", Right: "PPPHHHSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHhhh!!!!!".

 

[BravoXray]

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Yep, we had one in our shop back in the 70s. We salvaged it out of a gas station we demolished a few years before. The air valve shown pressurized a tank of oil that pressurized the big hydraulic cylinder on the lift.