You know you're old when...

sygazelle · 12-02-2023, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

...and not one decent album/song since.....

...says an old guy!

Llarry · 12-03-2023, 09:06 AM

Charging for air?

Darkpira7e · 12-03-2023, 09:49 AM

When "reverse" on the snowmobile was picking that fucker up and spinning it around waist high deep in the snow

Esteban · 12-03-2023, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Llarry

Charging for air?

Ridiculous, isn't it?

You know you're old when you remember when it used to be free.

I used to fill the tires on my bike with free air at the local gas station.

SpeedBuggy · 12-03-2023, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Ridiculous, isn't it?

You know you're old when you remember when it used to be free.

I used to fill the tires on my bike with free air at the local gas station.

Got a Circle K over by us, air pump charges $1.00 for air. Not sure how long it runs for that, but certainly not long enough to do all four. Worst part it takes quarters or a debit/credit card. WTF who doesn't have four quarters or a single dollar that you could make change?

M_Six · 12-03-2023, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SpeedBuggy

Got a Circle K over by us, air pump charges $1.00 for air. Not sure how long it runs for that, but certainly not long enough to do all four. Worst part it takes quarters or a debit/credit card. WTF who doesn't have four quarters or a single dollar that you could make change?

One of these will pay for itself in no time at that rate.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ON...737D/307627867

vreihen16 · 12-03-2023, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

You know you're old when you remember when it (air at gas station) used to be free.

...and the attendant put it in for you!!!!!

Esteban · 12-03-2023, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

...and the attendant put it in for you!!!!!

I actually did it myself.

Esteban · 12-03-2023, 02:36 PM

When gas stations were service stations.

M_Six · 12-03-2023, 03:16 PM

I did that as a kid. Pump jockey. Easy job.

Buug959 · 12-03-2023, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

...and the attendant put it in for you!!!!!

I was the attendant. It was my after school job. I did it all... pumped gas, cleaned windshields, checked and filled oil and coolant, checked and filled tires and when I wasn't at the pumps I'd be working on vehicles in the garage. I did oil changes and other simple jobs like changing batteries and starters, installed and balanced tires and any other job that was on the list left by the boss. Try finding a kid to do that today.

Esteban · 12-03-2023, 04:04 PM

^ I was a gas station attendant as well when I was a teenager. Did the typical things that attendants do. Was a fun job. Think it was an Enco gas station, now part of ExxonMobil.

R BMW · 12-03-2023, 06:04 PM

You know your old when you remember carring change in your pocket.

vreihen16 · 12-03-2023, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by R BMW

You know your old when you remember carring change in your pocket.

Get off my lawn, kid!

...when you carried a dime in your wallet in case you needed to use a pay phone in an emergency.

If anyone here carried a nickel instead of a dime, I apologize for my transgression and will exit your lawn by the most direct path.....

M_Six · 12-03-2023, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

Get off my lawn, kid!

...when you carried a dime in your wallet in case you needed to use a pay phone in an emergency.

If anyone here carried a nickel instead of a dime, I apologize for my transgression and will exit your lawn by the most direct path.....

Dime here. Not the Lawn Elder by any means.

But speaking of dimes and pay phones...there's a scene in the movie WarGames where Matthew Broderick's character gets a pay phone to give him a dial tone by shorting the phone against the coin box with a pull tab from a soda can. There are several generations of folks who have never seen either a pay phone or a pull tab. They must be like, "WTF did he just do?"

SpeedBuggy · 12-03-2023, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Buug959

I was the attendant. It was my after school job. I did it all... pumped gas, cleaned windshields, checked and filled oil and coolant, checked and filled tires and when I wasn't at the pumps I'd be working on vehicles in the garage. I did oil changes and other simple jobs like changing batteries and starters, installed and balanced tires and any other job that was on the list left by the boss. Try finding a kid to do that today.

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Originally Posted by Esteban

^ I was a gas station attendant as well when I was a teenager. Did the typical things that attendants do. Was a fun job. Think it was an Enco gas station, now part of ExxonMobil.

Same here, worked after school and weekends in high school
Best part of cleaning windshields........

mini skirts

vreihen16 · 12-04-2023, 06:01 AM

KISS performed their last-ever concert on Saturday night, in NYC. I guess that it's getting difficult to Rock and Roll All Night at their age.....

M_Six · 12-04-2023, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

KISS performed their last-ever concert on Saturday night, in NYC. I guess that it's getting difficult to Rock and Roll All Night at their age.....

Especially if you're partying every day.

Esteban · 12-04-2023, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

KISS performed their last-ever concert on Saturday night, in NYC. I guess that it's getting difficult to Rock and Roll All Night at their age.....

KISS at Christmas...

vreihen16 · 12-04-2023, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

Especially if you're partying every day.

...and now they're home by nine! (Great Bob Rivers parody song.)

.

R BMW · 12-04-2023, 02:10 PM

You know your old when you carried around a condemn that is expired in your wallet.

vreihen16 · 12-04-2023, 06:26 PM

...when you actually carried a wallet to lug your expired condemned around.....

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