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  1. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I believe the idea is to get you to think you are talking to a real person. It works the first time for about 30 seconds. After that, fool me once, shame on you.
  2. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Many times they just call sequential phone numbers. I hear this at work frequently, one office phone ringing after another, until they get to mine: "Hello, you recently applied for a payday loan....".
  3. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I hate to be rude, even to telemarketers. But I don't owe them any explanations, so I just hang up.
  4. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    What's worse is that these things are an announcement that nobody's home. I hate to come back from a trip and find my door has been festooned with this stuff.
  5. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I see more adults riding bicycles than children, with quite a few riding to work. When I was a kid, I only knew one adult who regularly rode a bicycle to work, and that was considered to be a bit eccentric at the time.
  7. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Some will thrive in spite of, or perhaps because of, adversity. You can find flowers growing in the middle of a junk yard.
  8. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Sometimes it's the adults who need supervision.
  9. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I just realized that I no longer see children on bicycles near my home (in a rural area, I do see them riding in town). When I was a kid, we would walk or ride bikes to our friends homes, which were a mile or two away. It may be that parents have become chauffeurs for their children, especially...
  10. ChrisB

    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    It's the stream of unconsciousness.
  11. ChrisB

    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    The closest town to where I grew up had a very active shopping district. While you didn't always get what you want, you always could find what you needed. Numerous fires and the advent of shopping malls led to it's demise, and by the 90s most of the stores were vacant. Those stores are once...
  13. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Don Knotts was was comic genius as Barney Fife.
  14. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I would have no sympathy should a flock of incontinent seagulls take an interest in this person's car.
  15. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    People who take two spaces to park their Mercedes because they are afraid of getting it scratched.
  16. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Lyme can cause damage to heart valves, and at least one person as died as a result, but this is exceedingly rare. Due to the vague symptoms, it can be a tricky thing to recognize. I have had it several times, only once did I have an elliptical rash, the classic sign of Lyme. 3 to 4 weeks of...
  17. ChrisB

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    My grandmother's life overlapped that of her great grandfather, who was born in 1803. She could recall stories from the early 1800s in the 1990s. President John Tyler, born in 1790, has two grandsons living today!
  19. ChrisB

    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Not all that correct, they misspelled "Weizen" (wheat).
  20. ChrisB

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Didn't need one back when we had shoe store X ray machines!
  21. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There are many types of asbestos, not all equally hazardous. Most asbestos used (90% ?) is chrysotile, not considered to be hazardous for low level exposure. Amphibole is the type that is the real danger, I don't know where or what it was used for.
  22. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    Me too!
  23. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    Film? Not on your Tintype!

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