You Might Be Old If . . .

Ours had a handle on them.  It cracked all the ice at the same time.  It didn't work that well, some always stuck to the tray.
 
You had ice? We didn't even get the family recipe for that 'till 1962.
 
Groan!  Then how did you stay cool in the summer?  You have to take out all the ice trays and blow a fan across them.

Old joke on how to spot the poor Texan in his Cadillac.
 
"The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth."

Four Yorkshiremen
Monty Python's Flying Circus
 
those gadgets didnt ever seem to get the ice to break very well. Usually it went all over the place. The best thing was to pour a little water over the top and give the tray a twist.
 
  .  .  .  If a woofer has to be at least 8" rather than anything smaller.  My speakers have a 6.5" woofer.  I'm in a quandary. 
 
If you looked for your glasses, and found them on your face...you could be a geezer.    If you don't remember what you ate for breakfast, and it's 6A.M.,,you might be old.   
 
Well, whipper snapper, when I was young woofers were large enough to find without your glasses.

I haven't looked for my glasses when wearing them.  I have only had glasses for 14 months, reading glasses for 23 years.  But I had them everywhere so I didn't have to look for them.  Two pairs in the listening room; one at the chair and one for reading labels at the CDP.
 
You remember $0.27/gallon gas, they pumped it for you and cleaned your windshield. ( Just like in the movie "Back to the Future!" )


I was still riding a bike at that time. . .


 
Yes, 19 cents a gallon, during a "gas war."  And in 1968 I was pumping and cleaning the windshield at a station in Columbia SC while at school.

I think in the year that Back To The Future was set I was on a bike too.

And, VoltSecond, welcome to the dribbler's thread.
 
I actually remember gas at .039/gallon (yes, 3.9 cents per gallon) during a price war in the late sixties.

And I too was the young kid pumping the gas, washing the windshield, and checking the oil.....

D
 
"Someday, gas will be $1 a gallon." "In Europe they pay $4 a gallon." "I don't care, 50 cents a gallon is just too high." "Ha, some day we will have to pay for water, ha ha ahahahahaha!" "yah, good one, heh heh."
 
Hey Greg - that brings back a memory I had as a kid in the 60's, probably, when the gas prices were 'unstable'. There was rumor that the price per gallon could go as high as $1.00. I remember it like it was like yesterday. A panic set in. I was just a kid. I wasnt driving yet, although it communicated a very real fear. Of course my dad was indulging in the biggest V-8's you could buy at the time, not that you had to look far to find them. We had a 64' Buick Riviera as our 'around town' family car. I remember a joke in MAD magazine that had a cartoon with that car and a gas pump being towed behind it. I think it got like 4-6 mpg in the city or something ridiculous like that. Our other 'utility' vehicles were not much better, such as the Chrysler Town and Country,- late 60's vintage. 440 with the 4 barrel. No wonder I was in shock about gas prices! Those tanks were probably like 26 gallons.

I drive hybirds now - we have 2 of them!
 
I almost traded a set of speakers that I made for a Riviera. Then he wised up. Whats a hybred?
 
sorry spelled it wrong! A hybrid - like a Prius - we have one of those, and a Lexus hybrid. Gas and electric motor drive. The Prius gets 50 mpg.
 
Then I guess I own a hydrid too. My truck can run on gasoline, or propane(possibly rum).
 
Yours would be what they call an 'alternative fuel' vehicle. 'Vehicle' is pronounced differently depending on where you are from. Granger, for example, would probably pronounce it vaa-hakkel!
 
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