12-07-2024, 08:01 PM | #9572 |
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I could write my name with one if these when I was a kid, and I can still
do it today.
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12-07-2024, 08:16 PM | #9573 |
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We gave one of those out to a senior administrator at work who wanted an iPad as a status symbol.....
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12-10-2024, 09:42 PM | #9578 | |
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12-11-2024, 05:38 AM | #9579 |
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I had a bike like that. It had actual working suspension front and rear.
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12-11-2024, 09:46 AM | #9580 | |
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wheels and a steering wheel from a ‘49 Ford. On the first big crash, I tried to make a 90 degree left turn after coming down a steep hill. We were really booking. The coaster flipped over, sending me and my buddy skipping down the chip seal pavement. The coaster remained upside down, resting on the vertical mounted steering wheel. We just laid there in the street, moaning. A car driver stopped and asked if we were okay. We muttered something and he drove off, leaving us to fend for ourselves. The second crash occurred after we hit a bump and the steering wheel came off and we hit a curb. That time me and my buddy flew out of the coaster and ended up on the neighbor’s lawn with the wind knocked out of us.
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12-11-2024, 05:13 PM | #9581 |
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"You know you're old when..." you spend the night *just about* sleeping so you can keep an ear open for the sounds your sick wife is making, and it makes you think of your mom and dad, and how they had to have done the same for one another over 74 years of marriage and 94 years of living. Then you take your wife to the urgent care in the morning, and they send you to the local ER, and there you sit, waiting, just like you did next to your mom or your dad all those times.
Oh you had the fat one. Mine had none of that. Jumped a mile. I finally broke both of the banana seat stays at the same time, which wasn't as painful as it sounds thanks to the seat itself staying in place. Saved up some allowance and odd jobs money, got a new seat, got back to jumping. |
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12-12-2024, 12:21 AM | #9585 |
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I actually expected them to come back OK. Would’ve been surprised if there was a problem. I guess you never expect them to be bad, at least that’s the way I think. Usually pretty positive. One day I might be caught off guard, though.
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12-12-2024, 08:05 AM | #9586 |
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12-12-2024, 12:22 PM | #9588 |
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^ and won't remember who in the morning
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12-13-2024, 03:06 AM | #9589 |
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...when you are familiar with or used these items as a kid.
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12-13-2024, 04:42 AM | #9590 |
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Yup to all except the first and the last items. I think I still have the nut cracker and a couple of the picks in a drawer somewhere.
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When I was a kid mine and one other Dad in the neighborhood were the type who would never spring for power windows because it was "one more thing to break," while all the other kids had super-cool power windows in their parents' cars. Of course I whined and complained about it.
FF to me with small kids (a couple of decades ago) and my car (with power windows of course) is in for some kind of dealer service and they are out of their normal loaners so they bring Enterprise over with some very basic and very small Chevy coupe with no options. When I got home that night, the kids were very excited that "I got a new car" and not only that, it was red! But the best part for them was when they got in and found the window cranks. "Why don't our regular cars have these cool window cranks?" I just had to LOL. |
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When my frugal father ordered his '63 Plymouth Belvedere station wagon (to replace our '58 Plymouth wagon), I begged him to opt for the full wheel covers instead of the dog dish hub caps. His reply, "do you know they're a $12 option?"...when we went to pick the car up, there it sat with the full covers. He just smiled when I profusely thanked him.
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