I'm so old I Remember when:

[notabitail]

You must know my mom.

 

[notabitail]

I remember when people (including myself) waving while driving and the oncoming vehicle wave back. Actually I also remember when people (including myself) would say good morning and the other person looking perplexed like I was speaking a different language. Sucks how society is these days. Nobody is cordial anymore

*waves at random truck out the window on the I-10 at 80MPH and proceeds to swerve right into a Texas mountain and faceplants into the steering wheel without airbag*

 

[sdm111]

*waves at random truck out the window on the I-10 at 80MPH and proceeds to swerve right into a Texas mountain and faceplants into the steering wheel without airbag*

With about 35 years driving experience that's unlikely to happen to me less a well timed blowout or something. With 13 of those years about 9 hours each workday in a major Metropolitan city with crazy drivers all around and zero wrecks

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I remember when people (including myself) waving while driving and the oncoming vehicle wave back. Actually I also remember when people (including myself) would say good morning and the other person looking perplexed like I was speaking a different language. Sucks how society is these days. Nobody is cordial anymore

IME, St. Johns AZ was the friendliest place I've ever lived (and I've lived in a LOT of places!). If people don't know you as they drive past you, they wave. If they do know you, they honk and wave! In just a matter of weeks I was part of a group of women who would load up their horses every week, drive to some interesting place like the Petrified Forest National Park, and spend the day riding. It was a great experience.

 

[kikiruru]

Not all old people drive slow
I know a couple who must have thought they were on the Daytona 500 race track

Or a stunt car driver
or
You feel like you just got off the thrill ride at thr fair

 

[Kiki]

Everyone and I mean everyone loves my mom. She makes friends with strangers daily.

 

[jxp]

My brother likes to stick his feet and arm out the window in those days... NOW, that will come with a hefty fine, but he is too old to do any of that now.

How? Why? Where do you live?

 

[kikiruru]

Remember "knuckle busters"?

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When my mom used a credit card the cashier would pull a paper booklet out of the drawer beneath the register. It contained the numbers of stolen credit cards, so the cashier would look to see if my mom's card was stolen.

When I worked at a drug store in the early eighties we had to look up credit card purchases in those paper booklets and if the number was in the book we had to call it in and sometimes the customer would snatch it back out of your hand and leave the store

Or when you reached for the book they would leave without taking back their card

And sometimes the person you called would ask is the card in your hand and to cut it up and that made some of the people mad

 

[kikiruru]

I remember when people (including myself) waving while driving and the oncoming vehicle wave back. Actually I also remember when people (including myself) would say good morning and the other person looking perplexed like I was speaking a different language. Sucks how society is these days. Nobody is cordial anymore

I forgot all about when you used to wave at the other car

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I forgot all about when you used to wave at the other car

Remember the cardboard hand on a spring on the dashboard that waved at everybody?