Fast Food....I remember some of these.......
This was sent to me this past week and I just had to pass it on...
'Hey Dad,' one of my kids asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. 'Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at The Hudson Bay. Or maybe it was Eatons and Woodwards. Either way, there is no Eatons or Woodwards anymore.
My parents never drove me to little league practice. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a 'machine.'
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with water because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
And the 'sad' irons one had to heat on the stove so you could do the ironing. You needed a couple of them so one could be 'heating' while you used one for ironing.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24 Studebakers
25 Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....
'Senility Prayer'...God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference.'
Have a great week!!!!!!
RE: Does that carpeting outside trailer help keep dirt out?
We use a 7' x 10' piece of indoor/outdoor carpet (size of the footprint of the screen room) and it really helps keep a lot of the dirt out. Also we remove our footwear too when entering the camper.
AAADD - Know the Symptoms
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS.....PLEASE READ!
Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better even though I have it!!
Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water.
I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
the car isn't washed
the bills aren't paid
there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter, the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my check book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day, and I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail....
Do me a favor.
Copy and paste this to an e-mail,and forward it to everyone you know, because I don't remember who I've sent this to.
Don't laugh - if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!
RE: Mods........
Dan,
Thank you for the compliment. Yes, space is always an issue. The boards are easy to store as they store on top of the counters and do not interfere with the beds when closing up the trailer. As for the bins, they take up floor space either tucked under the table or in the open area. As we have other stuff to store also in the trailer such as chairs, folding table, portapottie, water jugs etc, it took my wife and me a while to arrange and re-arrange and re-arrange to finally figure out the layout when traveling.
The beauty of the bins is that they can be loaded with whatever you have planned to go into them whether it be clothes, canned goods, dry goods, munchies, etc, etc and that might save you some storage issues. Of course if you manage to free up some space, someone will have something to fill it with...lol.
I snuck a peak at your mods and they are great. I might even have to ‘borrow’ some of those ideas.
John
Mods........
When we went camping last month with my sister and BIL, we discovered a couple of deficiencies to say the least. We needed to come up with an increased storage solution without effecting the use of the countertop on the cabinets. So we ended finding these plastic storage bins and then placed a pine board on top. There is anti-slip matting under the storage bins and the countertop to prevent movement when opening and closing the drawers. The hardest part of this mod was finding the right style of drawers and the proper size. These should help with the clutter of cell phones, radios, flashlights, chargers etc etc
The other mod took a bit or work. Whenever we needed to get something out of this cupboard, it always seemed to be at the back and on our hands and knees, we’d get it. So my wife asked me to make sliding drawers. As you can see by the pics, I made sliding trays and placed plastic containers. It works real well. The most difficult part was building a framework inside the cabinet for the slides to be attached to. The door opening is only 11” wide and 20” high. Sorry no pics of the internal stuff. I know I should take progress pics but I usually get so focused on the job at hand that the pics only get taken upon completion.
Last year I read on RVNET about using expandable shower rods and a wire basket for additional storage by the sink, so one was made. It sure comes in handy. Not sure whose idea it was, but thank you.
Also last year I also wanted to ease the work of filling my water tank. Using a funnel had its drawbacks. And no matter how I did it, it seemed to take forever and was a PITA, so I rigged this up. As these tables always go with us, it was an easy solution. I use a clamp to hold the tables together so that they don’t slide and it’s just a piece of plywood on the top. The only cost was the tygon tubing. Now I just place the water container on the stand, open the tap, make sure it’s not flowing too fast and then off I go, doing something else.
Hopefully the link works for you to see the pics (if not, ty Mr. Moderator)and just maybe it might give you an idea for your own mods.
http://community.webshots.com/album/565230666ZdeeWD
John & Betty
2007 RAM 1500 QuadCab 4x4
1999 Coleman Sante Fe
Yours???
A man boarded a plane with 6 kids. After they got settled in their seats a woman sitting across the aisle from him leaned over to him and asked, 'Are all of those kids yours?'
He replied, 'No. I work for a condom company. These are customer complaints.'
And you think lawyers don't have hearts.
The United Way realized that it had never received a donation from the city's most successful lawyer. So a United Way volunteer paid the lawyer a visit in his lavish office. The volunteer opened the meeting by saying, 'Our research shows that even though your annual income is over two million dollars, you don't give a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give something back to your community through the United Way?'
The lawyer thinks for a minute and says, 'First, did your research also show you that my mother is dying after a long, painful illness and she has huge medical bills that are far beyond her ability to pay?'
Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbles, 'Uh... no, I didn't know that.'
'Secondly,' says the lawyer, ' did it show that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair and is unable to support his wife and six children?'
The stricken United Way rep begins to stammer an apology, but is cut off again.
'Thirdly, did your research also show you that my sister's husband died in a dreadful car accident, leaving her penniless with a mortgage and three children, one of whom is disabled and another that has learning disabilities requiring an array of private tutors?'
The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, says, 'I'm so sorry. I had o idea.'
And the lawyer says, 'So, if I didn't give any money to them, what makes you think I'd give any to you?
RE: ****ADD A ROOM**** Fleetwood / Coleman
We have a 99 Coleman Santa Fe and we use our screen room always. It hooks up with velcro and have never had any problems setting it up.
RE: No bubble levels on PUP
we use a little 2 ft level. and a bal leveler for side to side. i have a add on question. when you pull the pup into the site. what is the proper order of leveling the pup. front to back or side to side first.
Side to side first.
RE: Porta-pot or not?
We have a portapottie for nighttime use only and for peeing only. Easier than negotiating the paths to the campground facilities.
RE: New to PUP forum!
My 99 Coleman Santa Fe had a tap that either worked as a manual pump to draw water up from the water tank or as a lever tap when hooked up to water service. A few years ago, the tap began to leak (I think I might have screwed up when winterizing...) I had the dealer install a 12v water pump when he replaced the tap. It sure is handy.
Enjoy your pop-up, you'll have nothing but great experiences.
