Are you this old?

[Alan W.]

Umm, this is happening now???

Lord no.
I was 3 when that happened.

 

[Pixguy]

Betty White died at 99yo.
Wow, what a lady, what a life! RIP

 

[turnkey4099]

The farmers paid from 50cents to 75cents; I paid for my school pictures and class ring picking up sweet potatoes for 75 cents per hour. The pics and the ring, as I recall, were like $25 and $28 dollars.

Picking potatoes was the high school boys cash cow. My brother did it all through HS. I started a job of it 1953 but soon talked my way into a loadeers position. Pickeers picked the potatoes off the ground after the potato digger went through and put them in a sack. Finish a sack and put one of your tickets on top with the bag folded over it. We loaders came through picking up full sacks, collecting the tirckets. Pickers were paid by he number of bags they produced. That was the job that convinced me that i was NOT going to do 'stoop labor'. I don't recall what teh pay per bag rate was. It wasn't long after that that 'potato combines' appeared and all the harvest was by machines with almost no hand labor involved.

 

[Molalla1]

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Those bikes are way after my time . . .

 

[turnkey4099]

I'm thinking the glass was marked in gallons. Looks like there would be some guesswork in filling to $1.00 or whatever. Maybe they used a magic marker for the dollar marks. Oh wait, magic markers probably didn't exist.

Yes, the glass was calibrated in gallons. How they sold by the dollar I have no idea.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Yes, the glass was calibrated in gallons. How they sold by the dollar I have no idea.

In the olden days, everyone could do arithmetic. 25 cents a gallon was 4 gallons for a dollar. Duh. $0.239 was 4.26 gallons for a dollar, call it 4 gallons and a quart. If you are really old you can remember when people did arithmetic.

 

[GeneV]

Betty White died at 99yo.
Wow, what a lady, what a life! RIP

I just heard about that. Yeh, she was a sharp tack up until the end, good for her!

 

[k0ua]

In the olden days, everyone could do arithmetic. 25 cents a gallon was 4 gallons for a dollar. Duh. $0.239 was 4.26 gallons for a dollar, call it 4 gallons and a quart. If you are really old you can remember when people did arithmetic.

Whoops. I guess I am really old. Because I remember when most people could make simple calculations like that in their head. I did say MOST not all.

My father spend quite some time teaching one of his cousins how to count back change to customers. She had married a fella that owned a grocery store and needed that skill right away. He said it was a nightmare getting her up to speed. He must have been successful as I can remember her counting out change to me when I was a kid and she was quite old. Yes the same old corner grocery at the intersection of the county line road and 39 highway that her husband had started all those years ago.

I can still do fairly complex arithmetic calculations in my head, but I do them in unorthodox ways that most people do not understand when I try to explain it to them.

 

[JethroB]

Whoops. I guess I am really old. Because I remember when most people could make simple calculations like that in their head. I did say MOST not all.

My father spend quite some time teaching one of his cousins how to count back change to customers. She had married a fella that owned a grocery store and needed that skill right away. He said it was a nightmare getting her up to speed. He must have been successful as I can remember her counting out change to me when I was a kid and she was quite old. Yes the same old corner grocery at the intersection of the county line road and 39 highway that her husband had started all those years ago.

I can still do fairly complex arithmetic calculations in my head, but I do them in unorthodox ways that most people do not understand when I try to explain it to them.

That plus calculating the sales tax. Ours was 3% back in the 70’s, each additional penny kicked in at 12, 35, and 65 cents. And we had to count out the change in the customer’s hand Or get a butt chewing from dad.

 

[k0ua]

That plus calculating the sales tax. Ours was 3% back in the 70’s, each additional penny kicked in at 12, 35, and 65 cents. And we had to count out the change in the customer’s hand Or get a butt chewing from dad.

Sounds like Dad taught you right.

 

[Pixguy]

Recognize these 70 something yo's?

 

[k0ua]

The first two on the left, yes. The guy on the right, I had to cheat and let Google Lens find him.

 

[Jstpssng]

I learned to count change in the greenhouse when I was about 13... the order was $13.64, she gives a 20 so here's (handing her 36 cents) One,(hand her a dollar) Fifteen, and 5 makes twenty. When I ran register at other places though, neither the owner of the customers wanted to wait that long.

For years as a customer I knew exactly what my order would come to and how much change I should get; I'd like to have all of the money I've given back because the clerk was wrong. Now though, most convenience stores don't post prices or give receipts; so it's a crap shoot if you get the right change back. When things do have prices it doesn't mean anything; I once argued with a clerk for 20 minutes trying to get my 60 cents back and finally gave up.

 

[npalen]

The first two on the left, yes. The guy on the right, I had to cheat and let Google Lens find him.

Well good for you. Now are you going to share with us?

 

[npalen]

Those bikes are way after my time . . .

The one with training wheels would indicate that someone's little brother/sister got to come along.

 

[npalen]

In the olden days, everyone could do arithmetic. 25 cents a gallon was 4 gallons for a dollar. Duh. $0.239 was 4.26 gallons for a dollar, call it 4 gallons and a quart. If you are really old you can remember when people did arithmetic.

I used to do long division in my head but those days are long gone.

 

[Jstpssng]

I used to do long division in my head but those days are long gone.

I still like to do math in my head just for the mental exercise. I back anything important up with a calculator though.

A college classmate could give you the product of any two digit numbers as easily as I can say that 2x3 is 6. It would be interesting to see of he still has that 40+ years later.

 

[George2615]

Well good for you. Now are you going to share with us?

Eddie Haskell, The beaver and brother Wally from Leave it to Beaver show.

 

[GeneV]

Eddie Haskell, The beaver and brother Wally from Leave it to Beaver show.

Right? Even I know that, and I ain't a boomer.

 

[Oaktree]

Right? Even I know that, and I ain't a boomer.

Well I guess you made up for me...I'm a boomer and I didn't recognize any of them.