The "I'm so old thread......"

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[toolmanmike]

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True that. Some mornings I get up feeling like I was in a bar fight.

 

[Triplegreen500]

I sound like microwave popcorn when I get out of bed....

 

[Cranky]

I sound like microwave popcorn when I get out of bed....

The sounds I make sure don't sound like pop corn....

 

[Brandy]

The sounds I make sure don't sound like pop corn....

Gun fire? Cannon fire?

 

[Darter6]

The youngins' call them "Dad Noises"

 

[Photon440]

 

[Cranky]

Gun fire? Cannon fire?

More like walking on crushed glass

 

[famous bob]

Gun fire? Cannon fire?

more like a duck w/ gas ------

 

[Brandy]

more like a duck w/ gas ------

Soooo....a 'Straight shooter" then?

 

[halftrackman]

Ed you say that about dad makes me recall I was at an auction with my dad for my wife’s grandparents. My wife’s grandmother spotted me walking behind my dad and noticed we walked the same exact way. As a young stubborn man I thought no way. I went to dads house one day and seen a pair of his boots by the back door, one laying on its side, I noticed his were worn on the outside edge like mine.. 20 years fast forward I’m now the mechanic for the switching locomotives he ran for 36 years .. I love pop and it’s sure strange how genetics work! That’s also where my really hard head comes from.

Well . in 1966 I worked for EJ&E railroad in Gary Indana, have you heard of them. I am getting old , but me is Gold

 

[Photon440]

 

[F4R/T]

Halftrackman I have not heard EJ&E line where was that?

 

[halftrackman]

ELGIN Joliet and don,t remember the other E , most was in Illinois They did us steel in gary and south side of chicago us steel, also had a hump yard and . round house it was a small railroad. I worked in the store house, but drove a truck to delivery everything I was in the big blizzard in 1967 in the chicago area. I was on Huey and blackhawks also. where are you now. I use to drive new mopar, not the old one nowday Yes i am get old

 

[F4R/T]

Dad was in Vietnam , side gunner/ mechanic as well, returned to Granite city steel to run switchers hauling ladles etc. around.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[F4R/T]

I still recall doing that omg!

 

[Roadcuda]

I'm so old that I now use a rake to pull tools etc out from under the car once I'm done fixing it and use a hoe for the stuff the rake leaves behind!

I've been doing that for years. A stiff rake is best for puling jack stands out from under the car!

 

[Basket case]

beats bending over or getting down on the floor.