Sayings that are no longer relevant.
- Thread starter Ronni
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Gaer
"Angel whisperer"
- Location
- New Mexico U.S.A.
"Push in the clutch!"
Don't forget no Sunday shopping, everything was closed.You can't shop this late at night,
because all the stores are closed at this hour!
helenbacque
Senior Member
- Location
- Central Florida
Guess what I heard on the party line. Days when several different households shared a single phone connection. Who got to use it was whoever got there first.
Gaer
"Angel whisperer"
- Location
- New Mexico U.S.A.
"Number please?'
I had two families with older girls on our party line, boy was that fun for this young boy!
Kaila
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Yes, that's true.
I was thinking, however, that many people now do most or even all of their shopping, online, 24/7. Some of the present (even young and very able-bodied and healthy ) people seem to have everything delivered, that they order online, instead of spending the time in stores, that was once a usual activity and major part of everyone's daily or weekly lives.
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Kaila
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Nathan
SF VIP
- Location
- High Desert- Calif.
Lol, young cashiers will look at you funny if you hand them paper dollar bills. I have actually seen young cashiers have to get their supervisor to help them with a customer's check.
MountainRa
Senior Member
- Location
- Upstate SC, USA
Who wants to clean the chalk board and erasers?
Alligatorob
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I don't know why we still have pennies or any of the US coins really. Since the half-cent was discontinued and the penny became our smallest coin we have had 3,200% inflation. That means the 1857 penny would be worth 33 cents in today's money. Seems to me we have little use for pennies, nickels, dimes and probably quarters now. https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1857?amount=1#:~:text=$1 in 1857 is worth $33.05 today&text=$1 in 1857 is equivalent,cumulative price increase of 3,204.64%.
My tractor still has a clutch. And I think they might have them in cars in Europe... maybe. However it has been over 40 years since I have seen one in a car here in the US.
Jace
Well-known Member
I have always driven a manual..since my first car.. '64 Mustang...and my current
2000Acura Integra!!
Mizmo
Well-known Member
- Location
- Ontario Canada
we need a new antenna.....
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
the majority of vehicles in the Uk are manuals... that said, both my daughter and estranged O/H drive automatics...I drive a manual...
Lewkat
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey, USA
Take the clothes off the line.
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
loads of people still hang their clothes on the line here.....not me ...but many of my neighbours
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
- Location
- Los Angeles Suburbs
My grands say "roll down the window" though they've probably never seen a hand cranked car window. TBH, I still say it, too.
Almost everyone says "hang up the phone" though few have wall phones to hang a receiver on.
Almost everyone says "hang up the phone" though few have wall phones to hang a receiver on.