A guy in the Home Debt parking lot yelled at me in 2001, the morning after, "You were only supposed to set your clock back an hour!"
When I reported that here, Aaron suggested this:
I set my clock back,
and found this in my
garage.
Well Ralph, at least your truck knows what time it is. We have 2 modern cars that are programmed to adjust in and out of daylight savings time on their own. Unfortunately, we have changed the date on which we make the adjustment, so they're both an hour off for the week between what they think and what the world is actually doing.
I wonder if there's a way to change the program? Oh well, I really don't care. I don't get the point of daylight savings time anyhow. No matter how you set the clock, there's still exactly the same amount of daylight and darkness on any given day as there would be if we just left it alone.
It would be great to set the time , back in time, to when our T's we new........... Could we really understand the times ? How many have studied the Teens-Twenties society ??
I'd take a chance !
Bob J.
Bob, it wouldn't be bad if we didn't have to go through all the rough times our T's have been through. You know what I mean, things like WWI, The Great Depression, WWII, Viet Nam, Polio, Diptheria, Helter Skelter, Afghanistan, Iraq, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Cold War, The Kennedy Assassination, Rap, Punk, Heavy Metal, Disco, Unleaded fuels, Adolf Hitler and the whole Nazi thing... I'm so depressed I don't know if I will set my clock back.
I was around when the gov did this,,wish they would split it 30 minutes and leave it alone
I love that sign...
It would be fun to go back in time and pick up some really original T parts.
Can you imagine showing up in 1920 with modern clothes and trying to explain cell phones, the internet, "water pumps", and Kevlar bands?
How about Jet planes and smart bombs?
LOL - Oh ya they already did that in "Back to The Future'
If you go back in time to get some T parts be sure to take vintage money for the era. Don't think they'd be to receptive of money dated 80-100 years in the future. Of course the cost of some vintage money may negate the worth of the trip. Then again if they'd take a check that might work but don't try credit or debit cards. ;^)
Gary, I went to the pharmacy yesterday to pick up a prescription and discovered I had left my wallet at home. (Not sure how that happened, since putting it in my pocket is automatic in the morning.) I had to go home to get the wallet. When I got back, I explained to the young woman at the pharmacy that, fifty-some years ago, she'd have just pulled out a pad of counter checks and handed me one, on which I would write the name of my bank, my own name and address, and the check details, give it to her, take my prescription and leave. She looked at me as though I were describing life in the Revolutionary War period...
Probably wouldn't work in the T era, though, since I'd be writing a check on an account that wouldn't exist until 45 years later.
Used to be that you could write a check on anything. Didn't have to be paper.
Used to be you could deposit checks without endorsing them. Dunno why banks changed that.
Used to be you could endorse checks to a third party.
Used to be you could cash a check with no more than proving your identity. Try that now.
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I remember all of that stuff....
Checks, as guys our age have known them, are just about done. Most transactions that were previously done by check are now electronic. My pension and Social Security are electronically deposited, as is my wife's paycheck. It was, in the past, a monthly chore to write checks and mail them to pay the bills. Now I only write one a month. Everything else is paid on-line electronically. Even the grocery store will take a check, but it's electronically transmitted and the money transferred while you stand there. They even hand you back your check once they have confirmation of payment. (No more "float", even for a minute. )
Things have changed. I've even seen young people enter an electronics type store (Verizon for example), pick what they want off the shelf, scan it with their phone, touch the phone and walk out with the item. No clerk, no check stand, no nothing. It's paid for.
It's all too fast for me....
Henry,
What you just described is one of the big reasons young people have no concept of "Customer Service" and the art of conversation is dying--as is tolerance for other ideas.
I figure, God willing, I have 20 to 30 years left; I can only pray the world doesn't fall apart too much before I depart. I pity the young 'uns of today, they are going to see trying times to which we have no clue.
Well, isn't this an uplifting post. . . .
Sorry!
T'ake care,
David Dewey