Keeping my 2005 F150 for as long as I can keep it running! My daughter-in-law has a Fiesta that locks all doors when the driver leaves the car. She never moves until her keys are in hand! Curse the Cash for Clunkers!

Sounds like a great place. I should fit right in with my boots, Stetson, and ssa .45lc. That's my kind of town.

The 50's were when i was a bit to young to remember, but was in HS in a small county in IN late 60's early 70's. The closest movie was 30 mi away, and Dad charged us er mile for using the car so was always interesting. With everything going on right now, almost - said almost - wish I were back there.

The Two and a Half Men and the Tampon rose to the top for me. I'm not sure that that one would have qualified for one man let alone two and a half.
My hot lunch in grade school was 30 cents a day and you can get an extra half pint carton of milk for 2 cents. The movie was 12 cents and the popcorn cost 15 cents. This was in a small country town in the late 40s and 50s.

Thank you, OUC, for the great start of my day! Hah, the Babylon Bee is more to the point than the MSMM! Oh yes, the socialists that think electricity is different for them than all others. Great opener!

Oh gosh, that's funny as you never know where the darn thing is. I rented one small car where it was low on the dash but located such that the steering wheel blocked it from view when in the driver seat. I pulled up to the pump and looked for the button to no avail. I found it by getting out of the car and bending way down to see it. No such luck having a press-to-open fuel door - I HAD to find the darn button, LOL.

Was at a parochial school in grade school - we took lunch - whatever we could make before we had to leave. We used to get a carton of milk in the afternoon if we had a nickel - but the school did not have a cafeteria.
The Nuns were tough!
When I got to high school after we moved had lunch for I think it was $2.25 for the week. Some of the stuff they had on the school lunch plan was inedible but he al a carte was expensive!
Gum was outlawed at the school - used to by a pack of 10 pkgs at the store for $.50 for the package and then sell them at school for $.10. a pack.
All the fun stuff at the time!!!

Hot lunch in grammar school was 35 cents.

We often took apart someone's upholstered chair
they were dumping and went bowling for a whole Saturday with the proceeds . . . that included the shoe rental !

And I remember the "brother can you spare me a dime" - could get an endless cup of coffee, or a phone call...both of which were, for me, like a gold nugget at the time....

Great collection!! Have already passed a few along - talking to a 30 YO liberal - I do like my fries! And Steyer - what a mess... The Dems FINALLY getting beat at redistricting - that was a good thing to see... And of course the opener - the idiots that think that Trump assassination attempt was a false flag! What the heck are people being taught or fed from the "news media" these days???

Thanks for your post!!

Miss the full size spares myself. And I hate to see drivers going down the highway at highway speeds on one of those "donuts". Scares heck out of me cause you know they are going to blow, and the person behind the wheel will not know how to control it....

92 D250 Cummins. 93 D350 Cummins. 87 D150. Have never driven any car newer than 2013.

I think it was a 1947 Popular Mechanics issue that promised we would soon have flying cars. Where's mine? I want a flying car.

PS: The D350 needs a replacement transmission. Any suggestions?

Sounds like a fun place, Abaco. Glad you had fun there. My wife and I just did our 40th at a tractor pull in Yadkinville NC, followed by a long weekend in Boone and Banner Elk.

Used to be; "Brother can you spare a dime" Today it's: "Brother can you spare a Tampon"

I would also imagine that they are "Space Saving tampons" like todays spare tires .
Miss those days of full size spares . . .

My 280 ZX back in the 80's used to talk to me. Pleasant (actually sexy) female voice would say things like "right door is ajar". Talking cars have been around for awhile.

At the gas station, I looked for the button to open the gas cap. Not in the door, nope, not on the dash, no, not alongside the seat. Frustrated, was finally about to ask someone when I discovered it's the old-fashioned press-on-one-side-and-it-opens type!

I'm 'hoping' that the current administration is retaining 'control' of the evidence they have and
using it to control the potential traitors inside the bureaucracy. That knowledge may have become
a sword to control the ones who originally forged the sword.
Making it public is a nuclear option for when the administration is leaving office.

I only know what I've heard about him in the news. My impression wasn't that he was a crackpot. But, I haven't been paying too close attention. I tend to default to support people who want closure on the Epstein issue...which I'm confident we'll never get with all the UFO/alien/Iran crap going on....haha....

You bet. I'll PM you. Maybe we can meet up there.

Ditto! Even worse is the sudden (and frighting) beeping and red dash light flashing for no apparent reason - oh wait, maybe the driver in the other lane was checking her cell phone and veered a couple of inches - nope, that wasn't it. I totally HATED the engine shut off at every stop "feature" while crawling in heavy traffic in Phoenix. Glad that thing was a rental so I left all that crap alone, but I will not buy a vehicle that such "features" can't be shut off.

Thank you for sharing your experience in context of a real-life true story. I will make it a point to stop in to Virginia City, Nevada on my way from Olympia Washington to Sierra Vista Arizona during my June Road Trip. Cheers.

I have a lifetime membership in Satellite Radio based on my current car. This new government meddling and surveillance gives another reason to keep my car as long as humanly possible.

I would press our President Trump and the one or two intelligent Politicians left up in swamp land to make these new "Features" optional or opt-in. European cars should follow our guidelines.

This largely explains my thinking in recently buying myself a 95 2500 RAM 4x4. Nothing electronic about it.

There will be a market to disable this shit. Count on it.

Remind me to keep my Lincoln 2013 MKX with 170K miles that has no problems. Have an awesome deanship that that care of the car.