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When "Active Engine Management" was a lever on the steering column that advanced and retarded the ignition.


...even I'm not that old. ;-)

 

I picked up two new tubes just the other day... 700x28.

 

A little lever that stuck out of the B-pillar to alert trailing vehicles that you were planning on making a turn.

 

Trafficators!

 

I thought they were called semaphores

 

.....nah that would be semicolonphores.

 

Semicolonphores are used when you slow down & roll through; (like that) when you come to a full stop you use perioddities...

 

:biggrin5:

 

And at the end of a long screech ending in a bang...
you arrive at the exclamation point.
(oof)

 

It was also ok for your friends parents to punish you also.

 

I still have my scars from the nuns of St. Mary's. Sister Edwardine, 120 years-old and 85 pounds dripping wet, would make you place your fingers flat across the edge of your open roll top desk, then slam the top on them! You know the old Catholic roll top desks - the ones with the ink well hole in the center at the top of the desk....

 

^^^ :lol:

 

When shoe stores used to x-ray your feet.

 

Buster Brown!

 

Mood rings

 

When Milk cost less than Gas or when Gas cost less than smokes. (under a buck)

 

When registers did not have machines attached to them that automatically dispense the coin change for the cashier.