I remember when my 5th grade teacher was teaching us measurements like feet and inches in a yard, inches in a foot, etc. The 5th grade recess jocks seemed to never remember that there were 36" in a yard. Mrs. Waters went somewhere and got a stack of yard sticks like they sell at a hardware...
I remember when cruising for a bruising meant a trip to the principal's office and he had a canoe paddle leaning up in the corner of his office.. He was also the football coach...
I'm to old I remember when local small mom and pop grocery stores let the neighbor hood kids pick up small groceries for their parents and they had a running tab for them to charge them to.
I'm so old I need to keep a list of grandkids and great grandkids so I have their names some where I will not forget them. I have no clue how old they are not and to adult ones I know not where they live. Well one I do. Some where in HI.
Who knows where their phone is hiding? I'm so old I can't remember where mine hides most of the time. One thing about even the old party lines you never lost a phone unless the house burnt down.
The best beauty is on the inside. A lot of the girls that were considered attractive when I was in high school have had multiple husbands. Men were chasing the wrong thing.
I won a shotgun in the 8th or 9th grade in school selling magazine subscriptions for a FFA fund raiser. So did another student and one got a big hunting knife. The school had an assembly for the presentations of them. We didn't know until they called our name. I carried that gun more than once...
The post with Frank Sinatra getting out of the chopper brought back an old personal memory. When my mom was a newly wed she went down to FL's lower east coast with her new mother-in-law to a family gathering. One of the girls was a caterer and told her she didn't need to sit around with the...