murphy1244
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40 years ago I was a teenager that knew it all. Now I'm old and know nothing..
Forty years ago...could you envision yourself today?
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JDgreen227
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I am older than you are and I know even less. :laughing: One of the drawbacks of getting older and getting all the stuff you wanted when you were younger is:
Forty years ago it bothered me I had so few toys and today it bothers me that now I have so darn many I don't really have the time to take care of them all and keep them maintained and repaired.
riptides
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Eh?
Are you 51 now? And 40 years ago...what? parents divorced?
Glad life is good. It gets better!
DFB
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Don't you just love that! :laughing:
Reminds me of some younger guys we hire that are less than half my age or my boss's but claim to know everything about anything.
milligjg
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40 yrs ago I was 15. Focused on 3 things, sports, beer and girls! Now, I'm 55 (soon to be 56), funny how nothing changes :laughing: No, life is good, a few surgeries, great wife, 6 acres and a tractor. Can't complain (unless you want to talk politics)
buckeyefarmer
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I played with tractors then, I still play with tractors.
jlgurr
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This is possibly my favorite response to the original question.
...can life be any more enjoyable than that. :confused3:
buckeyefarmer
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I enjoyed playing with toy tractors, dozers, graders, dumptrucks etc growing up. We had a large shade tree on the side of a hill in the middle of one of our fields, and we played under that tree all day long. we made roads, dug in the dirt and created our own little towns. We had a tire swing on the tree, we would braid our own ropes with used twine. We also had a treehouse in the tree, with a homemade ladder up the side of the tree to it. We were poor, and didn't know it.I
Here's a picture of the tree 40 yrs ago, on the side of the hill, with us sledding down that hill.
Here's a picture of the tree 40 yrs ago, on the side of the hill, with us sledding down that hill.
Redneck in training
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When in grade school my grades depended on if I liked the teacher or not. They were all over the place. I got a job with telecom after graduation from a professional school being an automatic telephone switch engineer. Worked there 9 years. Then I switched to Instrumentation and Process control. Changed employer 3 times but stayed with the field. Immigrated to the USA 1986 with $42 in my pocket and my clothes I had on. Went back to school to update my skills (when I first graduated the calculator was just invented). Being wiser and also highly motivated I graduated on top of my class and landed a great job that I held till retirement at the end of 2014. I always dreamed about owning land, having a mechanical/machine shop and airplane. Bought my land 10 years ago, built a house with a landing strip just behind it and with a garage that could accommodate any two and most four seat airplanes known to man. Added the shop two years ago. Have not bought the airplane but I am still thinking about it. I might downgrade it to a kit car.
Thinking about it now I more or less accomplished what I dreamed about. Just some years later than I hoped for.
Thinking about it now I more or less accomplished what I dreamed about. Just some years later than I hoped for.
chad22
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Cool picture.
Wish I had a picture. But when I was a kid me and my brother used to take trash can lids and use them in the snow as a sled to slide down a steep embankment near a bridge.
Those were some fun times.
