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      09-25-2024, 04:32 PM   #8977
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Having a car changed everything. I could go hang out with high school friends instead of the neighborhood kids. Sort of killed off street hockey and backyard football games.
I didn't have my own car till I was 18 but used to drive my Mom's car when I got my license at 16. Being able to drive places really opened up the world to me. As you said, not just stuck in the neighborhood anymore.

But when you were younger, this felt like all the freedom you needed.
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Those labels are what got me to get reading glasses a couple of years ago. It was a good 55 year run with no glasses while it lasted. Now I have them on to type this on my iPad.
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Those labels are what got me to get reading glasses a couple of years ago. It was a good 55 year run with no glasses while it lasted. Now I have them on to type this on my iPad.
Have had bifocals forever to read fine print; that's including cataract lenses that I've had for many years. The lenses help a lot but I still need bifocals for tiny things.

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...when you go into an antique store and they won't let you leave.*

...when you go on a dating site called Carbon Dating*


*I heard these on a Facebook Reel today. I'd give credit to the elderly comedian but I did not catch his name. His delivery is what made it funny.
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...when you go into an antique store and they won't let you leave.*

...when you go on a dating site called Carbon Dating*


*I heard these on a Facebook Reel today. I'd give credit to the elderly comedian but I did not catch his name. His delivery is what made it funny.
Saw it too. His name is Andy Huggins. A pretty funny "sit down" comedian.
He's got a good 10 minute you tube video by "don't tell comedy". Here's a short one.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-ZoLfrhhW...dVVzfiyF4LXE8F
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I had lunch yesterday with my former boss, who retired a few years before I did. Like all old farts, we mostly talked about our various health issues.
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I had lunch yesterday with my former boss, who retired a few years before I did. Like all old farts, we mostly talked about our various health issues.
I used to make fun of my father. I'd walk in his house and he'd be on the phone catching up with one of his buddies and they would laugh about their new friends - Bruce-Itis, Arthur-Itis - there were a few more but I'm old so I don't remember their names.
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Don't forget to take/destroy the carbon paper between both halves!!!!!
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<--- Did as both the operator and the customer.

Don't forget to take/destroy the carbon paper between both halves!!!!!
Same here.

We had to pick up the phone and call for an authorization code, atleast on
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placed our phone receiver in some sort of cradle, then connected the machine
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something like dial-up modem.
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We still keep one on hand for when today's tech fails. No authorization required, but if we don't get cvc it's a problem...
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When I opened my shop ('73), it wasn't Master Card and VISA...it was...
I remember trying to align those stickers on the door.
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