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Re: Are You Old Enough To Remember These
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I member the cap gun rolls and the reel mower, but otherwise I am not
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Dec 19, 2023, 11:38 AM
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as old as you oldballs.
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Dec 19, 2023, 11:39 AM
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When I was a baby they picked up and delivered cloth diapers. Pampers or something similar were around I guess, but the diaper truck was common.
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Re: Are You Old Enough To Remember These
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Dec 19, 2023, 11:47 AM
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still have a cap gun and roll of caps, I pull out every once and awhile when feeling especially obnoxious
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Re: Are You Old Enough To Remember These
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Dec 19, 2023, 6:14 PM
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Even looking at one of those cap gun strips I remember the smell for some reason.
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Texs Drive-Inn. Sunday after church.***
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Dec 19, 2023, 11:59 AM
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All but the milk truck AND APM actually worked as a gas station attendant
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Dec 19, 2023, 12:03 PM
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briefly at a Hess in Athens, GA. True story.
Biggest pain was people wanting cigarettes.
Wore a white and green uniform. Had a little change thingy on my belt.
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yes, but the milk truck delivery stopped when I was in 2nd grade.
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Dec 19, 2023, 12:07 PM
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Charles Chips kept on delivering those big tins of chips, though.
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You guys know what's best about the good old days?
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Dec 19, 2023, 12:39 PM
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Daddy paid for everything. That ended when I was 14.
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Re: Are You Old Enough To Remember These
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Dec 19, 2023, 12:46 PM
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That Fairlane Skyliner is a gem!
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Dec 19, 2023, 12:51 PM
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An engineering marvel and beautiful too.
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Yep, remember when little my day driving to the "other" side of town for gas
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Dec 19, 2023, 1:33 PM
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2 stations side by side were constantly in a price war. Remember 15.9 cents as lowest.
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I remember cap guns and what Brackett Hall USED to look like
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Dec 19, 2023, 3:12 PM
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but I saw a new reel mower for sale somewhere not that long ago. I think they are preferred for cutting Bermuda, fescue and some ether turf grasses.
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Re: I remember cap guns and what Brackett Hall USED to look like
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Dec 19, 2023, 4:25 PM
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Man, as a kid, I hated that dang thing.
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Re: Are You Old Enough To Remember These
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Dec 19, 2023, 4:24 PM
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No but LBB is.
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Seeing that reel mower reminds me of how my Battalion XO solved a broken
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Dec 19, 2023, 6:11 PM
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gas lawn mower problem in my Battalion...
We would always assign our extra duty Soldiers (Soldiers who had gotten in trouble and were given extra duty as part of their Article 15 punishment) the task of cutting the unit's grass. We had 4 gas powered push lawn mowers for the task. That is until these misbehaving Soldiers got the bright idea that if the lawnmowers were broke they wouldn't have to cut the grass. So, these SOBs sabotaged the gas mowers (cutting the spark plug wires, cutting/stealing the pull cords, poured water in the gas tank etc...) so they wouldn't work.
Well... my XO got the a.s.s. over it, went out and bought 4 reel mowers and some sling blades. He brought all these new grass cutting implements to the Battalion HQ where he and the CSM commenced to give a block of instruction to the extra duty Soldiers on how to put them into operation. They told all these extra duty Soldiers that since they didn't want to cut grass with gas powered lawnmowers that perhaps they would prefer going "old school". They told these turds that if they broke the reel mowers they would be using scissors next - but one way or another they were going to cut that grass.
I had my XO take the gas lawn mowers to a local repair shop where we got them fixed but for 3 weeks these extra duty Soldiers learned how fun it was to cut grass with a push reel mower. Needless to say - when we got the gas powered mowers back we had no more lawn mower sabotage problems...
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My Bornday is today
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Dec 19, 2023, 8:03 PM
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And I remember all of that but I’m not as old as Zettner. He knows what Moses actually looked like.
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