I can do this old timey stuff too! I can remember when my sat score of 1480 was better than just below average... When we came to Knoxville TN in 1986, my parents' house was on the outskirts of town. Now you have to drive almost 20 miles west to get to farmland. I remember when a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie was 25 cents and big enough to replace a full meal. Showbiz Pizza and the Justification for Higher Education poster framed most of my childhood dreams. When I started racing bikes, the class for "masters" racers, the old guys who weren't willing to risk life and limb for a podunk race, started at age 35. Those grey haired has beens expanded when I was in my early twenties to allow age thirty and up in most races. I've been a masters racer for five years now!
When we moved outside the Baltimore Beltway in 1971 that was considered moving to the country. Our friends all said they'ed never see us again. Now that area is part of the general Baltimore Urban Sprawl.
You had gravel??? Why back in my day the guy who eventually invented gravel hadn't been born yet. We only had one really big rock and had to make everything out of grass... ...and we like it!!!
"You're Older Than Dirt if You....." Open your closet & see tags that say "Van Heusen" & "Haggar". (Hell you prob. qualify if you don't have to look those names up....:lol: )
Quiz: If you're truly older than dirt, what where they called a really long time ago? I remember my granddaddy calling them this.
All I come up with is "kitchen matches." Which you lit either with a thumb nail or by a swipe on your pants.
We used to have a "popcorn popper" appliance as a child, huge thing with a clear dome on top for viewing this amazing act. Things got high-tech when jiffy-pop came out with the pie-shaped foil basket with the long u-shaped handle.
Blue tip and kitchen matches were and still are commonly used names but those aren't the answer. I'll give it another day.
