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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 16 hours, 59 minutes ago
    Hey OGC - it took a long time to kick in but I remembered things from my young working days.
    My boss (working on a farm) had a '72 El Camino with the bench seats.
    I was from a family of 10, so everything that I had I worked for, and Andy (the farmer I worked for) understood what it meant.
    He (his wife) fed me lunch every day - they knew that it was going to be my best meal of the day. Had to be on the porch at 12:00, and you had to have everything off of your plate by 12:25 and she would clean everything up.....
    I worked very hard for him - but he did take good care of me.
    Anyway, he knew that my family had two vehicles and there were 5 drivers.
    He offered me his El Camino for $.07/CPM.
    I had a five mile bike ride to get to his place, and then five miles back to town and then over 30 miles to get to a bowling alley or movie theater.
    So I was looking at 3 hours of work just to get a date to an event and back.
    I worked many long hours, and the two times I used his El Camino were well worth it!
    Having a date and having an arm around her on the bench seat... do not know why I had forgotten.
    Nothing more happened, but it was ..... WONDERFUL....
    I was "unavailable" when Andy passed - I will forever chastise myself for that. I was not there to let his wife and children know how much he meant to me -
    Everybody around me now has an angle - can't trust anyone....
    Can I go back to working for Andy? Just let me have 5 - 6 months of that simple life and I will call it quits....

    Sorry to unload - been a loooong time since I had these memories. They were locked away.
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  • Posted by $ 1 day, 20 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I have an 07 ranger that DeWALT bought me and gave me after we all got laid off during the housing crash in 08/09
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 days, 18 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I got a '96 Chevy Pickup for use on the property - always getting requests to borrow it and all I do is ask if they can drive a shift - its had the key in it for 20 years, and has never gone missing.....
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 days, 21 hours ago
    OUG, great collection...
    And one more Hat Tip to our POTUS #47...
    We get Lake America.
    And apparently the deal with Greenland cost us nothing, except a bunch of mean tweets!

    Imagine the guys on the other side of the table.
    OMG... We wanted to hold out for a big pay day... But just stop the Mean Tweets, and the Memes... Make them stop... (The deal reads, you protect it, you get final say what counties are there, and PRETEND to let us still rule the place!)
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 days, 21 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    Most, if not all, people under 30...

    Don't even DRIVE cars! Have no interest in driving.

    My BROKE neighbors get door dash meals DAILY!

    They have cars...

    Clues... No, they don't have ONE of those.

    LOL.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 days, 4 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    Looking up NCR proved to be historically fascinating ~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR_Voyix
    Mention of the military 1911 .45-cal. pistol (one of many products churned out by the company) triggered memories. The gun was introduced to me by the Marines (way easy foir me to aim and hit targets) and was touted for "stopping knock down power" despite gangsters in movies shot by Thompson subguns like in The Godfather tend to dance ridiculously around while being endlessly splattered by big .45 slugs. I was a Marine supply clerk and as yet never shot anyone but I bought a 1911 shortly after I became a civilian. Kept it in my car's glove compartment (too big for concealed carry) and called it my "car cannon." Because it only shoots 7 rounds me dino traded it in at a gun store around year 2002 for a big 9mm that fires 17 shots. That pistol I call my "car blaster" because it keeps spitting shots like a Star Wars sidearm.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 3 days, 4 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    HAD to +1 The Night Stalker, dino! When young I used one of those ancient printing devices and had a neighbor that worked for National Cash Register (aka NCR today) repairing them.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 3 days, 16 hours ago
    It wasn't an engineer.
    It was probably an insurance executive in conspiracy with a corrupt politician.
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  • Posted by $ 3 days, 17 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I bet you do, That 5 on the floor make women even more attractive beyond what they may be already.

    I've got 6 on the floor in the Mini Cooper I bought in early summer,. . makes driving fun again!
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  • Posted by AmericanWoman 3 days, 22 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    Do not think you will they are not as frilly as the Lexis, BMW, Mercedes and other female drivers want to be seen inside, bunch around these parts Frankly I get lots of looks with my 23-yr old Honda Accord with five on the floor!
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  • Posted by bkeiber9 4 days, 2 hours ago
    A big LOL on the Woody pic....did everybody notice the DeLorean at the 50's Micky D's?....where's McFly?
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