Re: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: Fw: Older 'n Dirt!!

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Terry my total was 17 out of 25 and it still said I was older than dirt!!! LOL

Terry Long <pawpawto3@...> wrote:

Hi Jan, I guess I'm older then dirt. I remembered 23 of the 25. Dave how did you do. TerryJanet <jfw4359@...> wrote:

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Jan

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Older 'n Dirt!!

LightningBugs / Older 'n Dirt!! "Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?" "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow." "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?" "It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I

didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it." By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had

something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of

fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger. I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had. We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine." I never had a telephone in my room.

The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2

cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see

them. If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried! to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with because we

didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not

the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S & H Green Stamps 16 Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19 Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If

you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends.... ===== "Senility Prayer"...God grant me... The senility to forget the people I never liked The good fortune to run into the ones that I do And the eyesight to tell the difference." Have a great week!!!!!!

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That's another joy/trial I will probably miss. My son will get his temps next year, and being in Colorado, I suppose I will have no part in that experience. You know how I learned to drive a standard (I assume you mean manual transmission with a stick shift). I had only driven automatics and I went up to the busy part of the south side of Milwaukee and bought a '63 Rambler wagon 3-speed on the column (3 on the tree we used to call it). I bought the car, got in and started driving it. I pulled onto KK, which is a very busy street, and I couldn't get it into second gear. The cars were piling up behind me and I finally got it in there. I learned fast! (though I imagine the clutch suffered a little extra wear). -dz-Sharon Zeis <szeis_1@...> wrote:

I'm 48, so it's probably my memory is going.. I'mteaching my daughter to drive - a standard. So I knowwhere your coming from. Sharon

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Terry I got you and Dave beat. I'll be 52 next month. BobTerry Long <pawpawto3@...> wrote:

Sharon & Jan your both still young. Dave & I will be 51 in 2 month's. TerrySharon Zeis <szeis_1@...> wrote: I'm 48, so it's probably my memory is going.. I'mteaching my daughter to drive - a standard. So I knowwhere your coming from. Sharon--- Janet <jfw4359@...> wrote:> Sharon if youonly got 16 then I know you are younger> than I am..LOL..I am 45..OMG!!!! Did I tel all of> you my osn went to driver's ed today and is able to> get his permit??? I let him drive me into town and> it was pouring down rain..Nedless to say all the> thoughts I had about teaching my daughter to drive> is OUT !!! I told him the only reason I let him get> it is because if there is 1 chance in 100 he will> drive oneof hisfreinds that is drinking and save his> life or theirs it is worth the $150 I had to> pay..That's all I thought about..Now

PLEASE SEND> VALIUM!!! Think if I call my Dr and tell him the> situation he'll prescribe me some??? ROFLMAO> > > Sharon Zeis <szeis_1@...> wrote: I got a 16.> Sharon> > > > __________________________________> Do you ?> New and Improved - Send 10MB messages!> http://promotions./new_mail > >

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Well, his home address is that of my ex-wife, so that's how I get out of it. Otherwise I would get it just as you have. -dz-Sharon Zeis <szeis_1@...> wrote:

In Texas you have to use your home address. so of course we get to pay.

SharonDave <dhz920@...> wrote:

That's one benefit I'll probably get, since my son doesn't live with me, I'm guessing that his getting his license shouldn't affect my insurance. -dz-