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  1. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    In the Before Times I shopped much as you do -- I often dropped the lovely missus downtown and swung into a supermarket (a couple of them are right on the route back home) and picked up what I needed for that night's dinner. But she's been working from home for 14 months as of yesterday and has...
  2. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    That was also a time when a serviceable car could be had for a couple hundred (or less, even, depending on how far back in Earl Scheib history we go) and a pretty nice might set you back 500. I bought cars in the early ’70s for less than the price of an Earl Scheib paint job. I never sent any of...
  3. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    ^^^^^ The Internet and the appliances we use to access it have made obsolete some occupations and made possible (or at least much more feasible) new ones. Lyft and Uber won’t work without smartphones. It’s been poison to the taxicab industry, but it’s a much better way for the customers to get...
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    Woolworth’s, Bakersfield

    Anyone here been to the antique mall in what used to be a Woolworth’s store in Bakersfield? I haven’t, but I’ll make a point of it next time I get within a hundred miles. It boasts its original lunch counter, still in operation, and still much as it was back in the day. Some call it ’50s...
  5. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    You’ve never let it stop you before. And yes, I know how to go into a store and make my purchases that way. I was doing that before you were born, and I did that very thing this afternoon. And I know how to make purchases online because I’m living in 2021.
  7. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    ^^^^^ Alas, there are things you just plain can’t do these days without a smartphone. Over the past year or so I’ve done much of my grocery (and other) shopping on my iPhone. I could place the order(s) on a desktop, I suppose (but I can’t honestly attest to that), but the store communicates...
  8. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    I’m reminded of a conversation I had with a coworker going on 30 years ago. He offered that he saw no reason to ever have a computer. Another coworker and I told him it would likely get to a point before long that he would need one, much in the way he needed a car — necessary to fully function...
  9. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Our microwave sees daily use. Oatmeal takes three minutes in the microwave and maybe 30 seconds to “prep” (1 cup Quaker Oats, 1 3/4 cups water) in the bowl in which it cooks and is sometimes served. It’s energy and labor efficient. Ours is one of those “space saver” units, an over-the-stove...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I used to pick up extra scratch writing summer festival guides and the like. I felt less a hooker for doing that than some of the stuff I was compelled to do at my “regular” job — writing fluff about some restaurant or school principal or massage therapist new to the coverage area. At least the...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    An old friend’s kid, who must be near 40 now, cranks out romance novels. She ain’t getting rich off it, but it is worth her while. Those who like to read that stuff like to read lots of it, apparently. The market for it is nearly as reliable as the market for porn.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve yet to see a deposit required for a shopping cart (luggage carts at airports require a deposit, only a portion of which is refunded when the cart is returned; down-and-outers have been known to gather up the “abandoned” carts so as to pocket the refund, not so unlike scavenging for soda pop...
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ... you clearly understand why some people would never live in a home with more than one level.
  15. tonyb

    Golden Era Anathema

    Ever seen one of those pavement scraping machines in operation? They make real short work of taking the top asphalt layer off a road in preparation for a fresh surface. In the older parts of Seattle there are brick roads (with imbedded streetcar track) hiding under the asphalt. Watching the...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We have a large resident population of Canada geese. (Why migrate when the buffet comes to you?) They are spectacular birds, but large ones, and they leave behind droppings to rival those of a medium-sized dog.
  17. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    I sent a coworker a “get better soon” card. He isn’t sick. I just want him to get better soon.
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I was under the apparently mistaken impression that you were employed in the field, and that having to bang out a certain amount of hifalutin gobbledegook just went with the territory.
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Hey, it puts bread on the table, right?
  21. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My Dear Old Ma gave her Singer a regular workout back when she was far from old. So I was familiar with that definition of “notions” before any of the others. “Sewing notions” was a bit of a redundancy in that time and place, although I would probably use it myself these days, to spare any- and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes. You thought otherwise?

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