What's worse is when your kids are complaining about AARP mailings.
The old guy mantra: "Never pass a restroom, never trust a fart, never waste an erection."
What in hell is an erection? ????
females who are my same age or just a few years one way or the other avoid me.?ÿ They don't want to admit to their friends that they are as old as I am.
That's the best weaselly excuse ever. ???? you won!
What in hell is an erection?
It's what you do to a Silo.
They really are making the print smaller on labels.?ÿ?ÿ ???ª?ÿ
Try to avoid using certain terms
ice box
typewriter
chairman
manhole
Miss/Doll/Babe/Sugar
country and western music
rock and roll
payphone
running boards
curb feelers
fender skirt
church key
skeleton key
mimeograph
pager/beeper/palm pilot
shorthand
dictaphone
davenport
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Years ago, so we must have been around the age of mid thirties, an engineering friend of mine got seconded to another company for a couple of weeks and he duly struck up an amicable repertoire with one of the female technical staff and being the gentleman he is, he asked her to accompany him for dinner on his last night in town. Quite some time through the dinner she said to him "I'm glad people wont be thinking we are on a date, because you look so old".
Try to avoid using certain terms
ice box
typewriter
chairman
manhole
Miss/Doll/Babe/Sugar
country and western music
rock and roll
payphone
running boards
curb feelers
fender skirt
church key
skeleton key
mimeograph
pager/beeper/palm pilot
shorthand
dictaphone
davenport
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I was "reflecting" the other day about things that are no longer around...things I really miss in today's world.?ÿ Things that are gone and will never be seen again.?ÿ Here's a few:
A John Madden sportscast on Monday Night Football.
A real dial phone with a real dial-tone.
Getting checked-out at a store with the clerk using a real cash register that doesn't scan a bar code...and the clerk knows how to "make change".
The drug store lunch counter.
Popping the hood on my car and seeing a distributor and a carburetor.
A three speed gearshift on the steering column.?ÿ
Having to get up to change the channel on the TV.
Reading a printed newspaper.
Clothes hanging on the line to dry.
Shopping at a corner grocery store that had a real hardwood floor and a real butcher counter in the back.
Screen doors that advertised the locally baked bread.
A ten-cent pay phone...that could be "coaxed" to make a call for a nickel.
AM radio.
A shower head that had enough pressure to clean something.
The Ed Sullivan Show.
A gas pump that had to be cranked to zero the sale.
Pop in a bottle...because only beer came in cans.
Beer cans that required a "church key" to open.
A church service with the doors and windows open in the sanctuary because it was a warm day.
Kids that minded their parents...and grown-ups in general.
The warm peanuts at the candy counter in the Sears Roebuck.
Finding a Mercury dime and saving it for something special.
Sitting on the porch at night hoping for a breeze because the house was still warm from the summer day.
Teachers that took the elementary class outside under a shade tree because the classroom was too hot.
Shade trees.
...and so many more things that were so much a part of life..and now are no more.?ÿ Things I miss.
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I take care of "Old Guy" dying patients that are going through everything you guys are describing. Let's just put it this way...
There are NO body fluids or body functions that gross me out. NONE.
Pee, Poop, Blood, Vomit...Eh... easy peasy. Brain matter, Bile fluids, guts hanging out, etc... Well...not pretty, but...I have a job to do and I cannot let blood and guts get in my way of me making sure my dying patient is as clean and comfortable as I can get them. ?????ÿ
Remember that sweet little gal you've known as far back as you can recall.?ÿ Then think of her son, the pharmacist whose wife is also a pharmacist, who couldn't be more bald headed, just like his grandpa and all six uncles.?ÿ The one that lives in a mansion on a hill.?ÿ On a tract he hired you to survey off for him several years ago.
BTW, his brother is also a pharmacist and equally bald headed.
I knew that sweet little gal's grandpa and four uncles.?ÿ All bald headed.
There are a multitude of secrets we all keep to ourselves as we age.?ÿ
I am truly glad I traveled when younger.?ÿ
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by the time I was 30 I was so sick of travelling.
But I was usually in some dump hotel for weeks at a time working. ?????ÿ
A gas pump that had to be cranked to zero the sale.
Better yet... a gas pump where you had to pump the gas up from the tank to the clear tank at the top marked in gallons, and then drain it via the hose to your tank.?ÿ i never actually had to use one but there was one on our farm in front of the store.
Andy
