On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 8:57:25 AM UTC-5, Ophelia wrote:
> "GM" wrote in message
> ...
>
> notbob wrote:
>
> > We're all old geezers!
> >
> > BTW, "geezer" is anyone old enough to have seen a live Edsel, in the wild,
> > or even knows what that means!
> >
> > I did not know Ed was that old. I am too, and with what everyone
> > seems to say, we all are. Perhaps that's why we still hang. Nothing
> > better to do. 8|
>
>
> "Geezer" is a state of mind, I know peeps in their 20's that are
> "geezers"...Ed and some others here are very vital and active, others,
> w-e-e-e-l-l...
>
> I was recently trying to explain to some young 'uns what "phone service" was
> in the "old days", e.g. that Bell had a monopoly, you rented your phone from
> Bell, and phone service was very expensive, that many waited until Sunday
> night to make long - distance calls, etc....some of them looked pretty
> incredulous.
>
> Then I mentioned about listening to my grandfather describing the wonders of
> the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, about seeing electric light for the first
> time, the Ferris Wheel, etc., and that this was the first time he traveled
> (from downstate Illinois) more than a very few miles from his isolated
> Buffalo Prairie IL farmstead....
>
> I closed by saying that in a few decades *they* will be telling incredulous
> younger folk about life back in the 2010's...back in the mists of memory and
> time...
>
> ANYWAYS, this gets back a bit to that "nostalgia" thing a bit that we
> discussed in an earlier thread...
>
> Best
> Greg
>
> ==
>
> My first car was a Morris Minor Traveller I learned to drive in that! I
> have had many cars since them and I have forgotten many of them, but I will
> never forget that one)
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mo...LkAm4hOl0QCKM:

My first car was a 1969 VW Beetle, green! I then owned nothing but aircooled VWs all of the 1980's!

John Kuthe...