Lady Fitzgerald
Tempe, AZ, USA, Earth
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mowermech wrote:"You know you're getting old when......."
You walk into an "Antique Store" or Homesteader/Pioneer Museum, and most of the stuff on display are things you used when you were a kid!
Even worse is when you know more about items in an antique store or a museum than the employees or curators do.
Ayone here ever patch an automtive inner tube using a vulcanizing patch kit, the kind you had to light with a match? I indentified a repair kit like that once for a museum in the Flagstaff area. They had no clue what it was. Daddy taught me how to use them. I've done the same with early tools.
If only we had kept some of that old "junk."
Jeannie
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mowermech
Billings, MT
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"Ayone here ever patch an automtive inner tube using a vulcanizing patch kit, the kind you had to light with a match?"
Yes. Many times.
How many have seen a "tube type" tire recently, other than on a bicycle or motorcycle?
CM1, USN (RET)
2002 Fleetwood Southwind 32V, Ford V10
Toad: 2006 Jeep Rubicon LJ
Other toad: '06 PT Cruiser, Kar Kaddy dolly
Toy: 1977 Dodge W100 CC SWB, 3/4 ton axles & springs
"When seconds count, help is only minutes away!"
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d3500ram
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B's Bunch wrote:The barber asks if you want your eyebrows trimed and you agree
I thought this was normal for a barber to do! (jeesh... I must be getting old.) 
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RWDIII
Casa Grande,AZ; Lakewood CO
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My Dad is retired and lives in Lake Havasue.Not to long ago I visited him and we went out for a brunch at his favorite place.He ordered from the senior menu and so did I.
after a minute Dad looked at me and said " aint this a b!tch"
I said what,and he shook his head and said"Its pretty bad,when your boy takes you out to eat and you both order from the senior menu."
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down home
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Patching tires? Yep. It was a common thing to have to patch an inner tube along side of the road. Tubeless tires were just about as likely to go flat. Tire irons are now collectible. Heavy tire pumps like bicycle tire pumps. Really work up a sweat, in July and no air conditioning.
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Road Dog
Waukesha,WI
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You know your getting old when you come down with the dreaded "Furniture Disease". Thats when your chest slips into your drawers!!!!
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JiminDenver
Denver, Co
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You know your old when... ummmm
Well damnit, I forgot what I was going to post.
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Nights camped in 2012 16
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wborst
North Carolina
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You know you're old when late night TV is anything that comes on after 9:00PM. 
Brenda, Bill and our little dog Madison
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roman traveler
Madera, CA.
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When you get married and you spend the first 3 days of your honeymoon trying to get out of the car.
RT
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mowermech
Billings, MT
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roman traveler wrote:When you get married and you spend the first 3 days of your honeymoon trying to get out of the car.
RT
With some of the cars today, that isn't all that funny!
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