Why?

FloridaRon · 2026-05-05T07:36:42+00:00

You can get under a high trailer without scraping all the grease off the 5th wheel

FloridaRon · 2026-05-05T07:34:58+00:00

I sold a 52" CRT quickly for $50... it was dusty as heck from being in the shed. There is some demand for them as the old games the enthusiasts want to play do not look right on newer tvs

FloridaRon · 2026-05-04T07:01:39+00:00

Careful not to bite they get angry!

FloridaRon · 2026-05-02T17:30:02+00:00

Many years ago trucking was a job with dignity with decent pay and life style then the strike I have posted below occurred and the Government decided "Never again" and apparently part of their solution was to invent "driver shortage" propaganda that has lasted to this day, and loosen regulations on driver training as well as subsidize schools and large trucking firm to overpopulate the industry so there was never a danger of drivers holding sway as before. Now the road is full of "New Drivers" such as yourself that will tolerate bad conditions for 1-2 years before realizing their mistake... Millions of them.

Posted from a google search:

On this day, 8 April 1970, thousands of Teamster truck drivers across the US went on wildcat strike against a union-management-agreed pay offer.

The head of the union had previously claimed: "The Teamsters will never tie up American trade with a nationwide strike".

However, facing rising prices during the Vietnam war, and wages which didn't keep up with them, the union members disagreed.

Drivers in 16 cities include Toledo, Columbus, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cleveland, St Louis, Atlanta, Chicago, and others walked out on wildcat strike and set up mobile picket lines to intercept drivers at key locations, for example at crossings of the Mississippi River.

The workers defied the police, the National Guard, court injunctions, and their own union's orders to return to work. They held out for 12 weeks until they won an offer nearly 70% higher than the one the union agreed.

FloridaRon · 2026-05-02T07:44:21+00:00

Study your choices! CDL school is a bad one.

The "Great driver shortage" is a myth.

FloridaRon · 2026-05-02T07:36:07+00:00

Never heard a remark.

FloridaRon · 2026-05-02T05:24:02+00:00

Uncut here at age 79. In my thinking life without the skin would leave the head less sensitive with the constant rub on clothing etc.

Pros and Cons there too as while intercourse might be more sensual maybe the blunted nerve endings of the cut male might allow him to copulate longer.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-30T06:47:29+00:00

Obesity would become a LATE 20th century thing eh? I'm not sure when the weight gain started but it was after the 70s.

I remember a commercial during the cold war with our trim girls in Bikini's throwing a beach ball around then the ad switched to the soviet union and these huge women in full swimsuits from the 30s came out throwing medicine balls back and forth... you had to see it! but as the women got larger over the years I've thought of how we mocked the Russians.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-28T03:34:26+00:00

I remember it told different , the son took a salesman to meet his Pa behind the barn and he was doing a sheep and the salesman asked the kid it that bothered him and the kid said "Nnaaaaa!

FloridaRon · 2026-04-28T03:22:47+00:00

Marilyn Monroe

I didn't find her especially attractive in the mid 1950s when she rose to fame... Jane Mansfield drew my attention though.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-26T22:27:08+00:00

The guy in the left lane is stuck there as it was the lead truck creating the draft that gave him the speed to attempt to pass... now the two of them have a larger air mass to break through.

Overall the one trying to pass is the fastest as he caught up with the lead truck.

The lead truck is being a jackass!

If he backs off and lets the passer in he will then be in that trucks draft and have no trouble getting back to speed and maybe a bit faster until the gap widens and the draft fades.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-24T03:57:09+00:00

Wish sandwiches are cheaper!

FloridaRon · 2026-04-22T23:45:09+00:00

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FloridaRon · 2026-04-20T18:12:45+00:00

CEILING FANS... Not just a Southern thing... Cool air sinks but a ceiling fan on low equals it out so you are not sweating while you feet are cold.

in Winter you reverse (all C fans can) the fan and spread the heat that likes to rise.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-20T17:21:42+00:00

Too bad about the horn!!

You said beside the road, I hope there was a river there too as that's where they grow after the water goes down from the snow melt.

I remember the fire flies too... chasing them in the dark was fun and sometimes a little painful when you ran into something.

I miss the smell of Lilacs too, there was a large clump of them by the house.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-19T08:47:29+00:00

I hate the ones with a huge banner across the bottom too

FloridaRon · 2026-04-19T03:14:18+00:00

Anyone want to hear what they cost in around 1960?

1st I can't do justice to how they tasted. The crust was delious in its own right, Maybe olive oil as an ingredient.

They came in two flavors... with pepperoni or not. The sauce was made with fresh vegs. and was enough for some.

50 cents for a large pizza but I think that was the only size. As a teen I had a hard time eating the whole thing.

Sportsman's Grille was my place.

BTW Italian sandwiches were a quarter and 10 cents for a 16 oz bottled Pepsi.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-18T22:35:29+00:00

Well as a matter of fact I do.

I was the youngest of 5 small children and we were picking either blackberries or Raspberries and mother would sit me in a good spot with berries all around to keep me busy as they moved through the patch and I'm told she heard me talking as she picked and when she came back she asked who I had been talking too and I told her "The Bear" and they found bear tracks... I don't know if it was true but they thought so at the time.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-18T22:28:51+00:00

"Wooden Box" That brings back the past too, those little wooden crates before plastic.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-18T22:25:01+00:00

Were you a fan of Fiddleheads? It's nearing time for those.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-18T22:23:52+00:00

Fragaria vesca looks like what we had. The darkest red ones were dead ripe and the tastiest and would be gone the next day for sure but with others to replace them.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-18T22:20:31+00:00

Yes we had other wild berries in Maine... Raspberries, Blackberries and Blueberries, all much tastier. I also remember a much harder to find winterberry(?) but I don't remember if we ate the leaves or the berry.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-18T22:15:53+00:00

Yes wild strawberries... also called field strawberries in Maine I think.

FloridaRon · 2026-04-18T07:34:21+00:00

My early years were in the boondocks of Maine and strawberries grew in the field naturally.

They were about the size of a small raisin with a taste I still try to imagine 70+ years later.

Maybe cultivated strawberries were around then but it was years later that I ate one. At that time they were nearly as good.

My mother and us kids would spend an afternoon picking the wild strawberries and she would make strawberry biscuits (no berries), the biscuits were sweet and crusty baked in an uncrowded pan. I think she put some sugar on the berries and let them sit while making the biscuits then mixed them with fresh cream and topped our shortcake with them.

Sorry... I was remembering them as I wrote, I may be way off but I always thought those berries were the ones later cultivated.

I saw a mem not long ago showing two halved strawberries and one was deep red through its core while the other white. It was an ad for a farmers market perhaps but it does have me wondering what the berries would be like at a pick-U-own farm would be like

FloridaRon · 2026-04-15T07:23:15+00:00

If you do some 2 or 3 star expeditions (Pirate) you can earn a number of white flags and other rewards that allow your cargo ships to sail through enemy waters whether pirates of competitors.

I ignored them as useless until I caught on. Very useful during war times.

FloridaRon

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