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      08-16-2024, 06:28 PM   #8449
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.start a thread "You know your kind of of getting old" and I'll take a screen shot of that app. 😉
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.....when you look forward to Friday's cause that when the grocery store flyers come in the mail...
I could tell you a story about my penny-pinching frugal wife and Shop Rite's meat department that would make you put that flyer into the bottom of a bird cage and shop elsewhere.....

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Remember the ding-ding sound you heard when you pulled into the full service gas stations back in the day?

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^^^^ yup. My dad told me those stories

..check the oil level, clean the windshield, even run the rag over the wiper blades.
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^^^^ yup. My dad told me those stories

..check the oil level, clean the windshield, even run the rag over the wiper blades.
Don't forget air pressure in the tires. Oh, and the reason you're there... gas.
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^^^My best friend and I both worked at gas stations. We'd brag about cleaning a windshield with the sponge/wiper thing without leaving any streaks. Small accomplishments.
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My best bud back in the day worked at a Getty gas station. Are those still around?. None in New England that I run across anyways...
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^^^My best friend and I both worked at gas stations. We'd brag about cleaning a windshield with the sponge/wiper thing without leaving any streaks. Small accomplishments.
Was one of my part time jobs as a teenager as well. I enjoyed it.
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My best bud back in the day worked at a Getty gas station. Are those still around?. None in New England that I run across anyways...
"Getty gas stations in the Northeast were sold off as a condition of the buyout. The company became known as Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc."

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^^^^ yup. My dad told me those stories

..check the oil level, clean the windshield, even run the rag over the wiper blades.
Your dad!!

Get off my lawn.
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Flashbacks on the wooden spoon...
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Flashbacks on the wooden spoon...
My flashbacks were from a belt.
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My flashbacks were from a belt.
Mom had the wooden spoon. Dad used his hand until I snuck my pocket knife into my back pocket before he spanked me. He didn't like that. Then it was the belt from then on out.
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Mom had the wooden spoon. Dad used his hand until I snuck my pocket knife into my back pocket before he spanked me. He didn't like that. Then it was the belt from then on out.
It was the opposite for me. Mom slapped me across the face and my father used a belt on my bare ass.
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It was the opposite for me. Mom slapped me across the face and my father used a belt on my bare ass.
Ya, pants came down after the pocket knife incident, too.
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It was the opposite for me. Mom slapped me across the face and my father used a belt on my bare ass.
My granddad would send me to the woods to cut a switch when I had done something wrong. It took me waaay too long to realize that a thicker switch didn't hurt near as much as a skinny little one.
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My granddad would send me to the woods to cut a switch when I had done something wrong.
Fsck you! That's the electrician's job!

(Old joke about a bad kid rebelling against his parents.....)
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I remember that sound well. I was the kid who pumped the gas, checked the tires and oil, and washed the windows....and gave Blue Chip Stamps and usually some type of sports glass for 10 gallons or more. The price per gallon at the time? $0.33 for regular.
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… when you get annoyed that the people sitting across the aisle from you on a plane walk in with 3 Pizza Hut boxes that stink + donuts + chips.
I will be flying Southwest to Dallas and back on Tuesday. Living in dread.
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