"GM" wrote in message
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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)

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