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  1. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    That would be less than 18K miles per year on average, so yeah, it’s likely you’ve driven at least a million miles so far.
  2. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’ve driven well over a million miles at this point, been seriously injured and hospitalized a couple times. On one occasion I would have been considerably less injured had I been in the sort of car made these days, and not that ‘66 Corvair, when that uninsured clown ran that stop sign and...
  3. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    As I am wont to say, we are not powerless against this. It just takes the will. These are anything but victimless crimes. And we all pay for it, one way or another.
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    There’s no wonder to that at all. I’d like to believe that people will do right just because it’s right, and I believe that most people will, given circumstance that have them believing the game isn’t rigged against them. But that’s only most people. Keeping the others from tearing down the...
  5. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    It’s outrageous that so many cars around here have expired registrations. I often see paper temporary plates with expiration dates a year or more past. What do you suppose the odds are that those cars are insured?
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ Out Seattle way a motorist best be mindful to yield to pedestrians where they have the right of way, and pedestrians had best be out of the road where they don’t. The code is actively enforced, or at least it was when I lived there. I liked it that way, much more than how things are here...
  8. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    What was the title of that song? “Instant Karma,” was it? I shudder when I remind myself of the time I tried to see how quickly I could drive over a mountain pass highway — a twisty highway, undivided in places. I was just sooooo effing stupid. That was nearly 40 years ago and the thought of...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m guilty of that myself. As with most newer usages to which a person might take exception, the battle is already lost.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Legal but nonetheless deceptive marketing promotions from cell service providers. “Gift cards” (not actually a physical card at all) that, it turns out, can only be used for the purchase of the cell provider’s goods and services (at full retail, of course). And then, when you switch carriers...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    On any given day I get at least a few junk calls. It’s gotten to the point that I don’t answer the call if I don’t recognize the number, or if the number is blocked. My voicemail greeting tells callers exactly that, and I ask the callers that have business with me to please leave a message and...
  13. tonyb

    Is it wrong to stay in a hotel when I visit my elderly parents?

    Am I reading too much into what I’m thinking you mean by “some of the things she says are aggressive and hurtful”? In other words, do her hurtful remarks have to do with you and your partner’s “lifestyle”?
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    That part of Idaho is quite scenic. People who have never been near there likely don’t think of Idaho as a Rocky Mountain state, but that stretch of it certainly is.
  15. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^ I, and several other drivers, got a chickensh*t speeding ticket on I-90 just inside the Idaho border with Montana. This was in August of 2007. There had been road construction in Montana which brought the speed limit down to 50 (if memory serves) in places and back up to 80 in others. It...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Often, though, there is no “in fact.” My aesthetic preferences, for instance, are mine, and other people’s are theirs. There might be generally accepted norms, but there is no objective truth in such matters. A person’s dislike for the manner in which some present themselves (you can find a...
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    As I’ve undoubtedly observed before, I would welcome much more stringent traffic code enforcement around here. Traffic fatalities have been ticking up (after being on a downward trend for decades) and street racing has become a popular pastime. We are not powerless to address this. It just takes...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We owe one another the space to walk peacefully through this world. Too bad we don’t always grant that. But granting others such consideration doesn’t extend to approving of the choices they’ve made for themselves. If a person wants a swastika tattoo on his forehead and to turn the whites of...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Why? I’m not suggesting you don’t have your reasons, but I’m left to wonder what those reasons might be.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Of course, and I would never argue otherwise. I’m not telling anyone what to do with his or her own body. But people cannot insist on how others perceive them. If I am put off by it, that’s my business, and your take on it doesn’t matter.
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ And Barbara Eden? The point of cosmetic surgery is to improve the patient’s appearance. In the eyes of the above-mentioned I’m left to assume it does. But through my eyes?
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’d join her for a cup of coffee. EDIT: But then, I just saw a couple photos of her taken recently. She’s obviously had “work” done. I find women more alluring when they don’t mind looking their age.

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