Our 14yo is embarrassed by my G and wants me to get rid of it

[slipnfall]

She was 16, I just knew as soon as she could she would be gone and then she was.

Interesting!

[audtatious]

Audtatious too bad your daughter could not go back in time to meet this girl, there were lessons to be learned from her in overcoming obstacles.

Perry

Hell, I'd like her to see how things were when I grew up. Limited TV, no video games and we spent all day outside playing and roaming. Halloween was the time when the neighborhoods were crammed with kids going door to door, unlike today when I don't even have kids doing it at all around here. Kids don't know what they are missing out on.

[370Z/28]

Amen to that Jeff. I really do feel sorry for kids nowadays.

I would leave the house in the morning and not come back till it got dark. We would find tad-poles or play kickball or whatever all day long. There was no child hood obesity when I was a kid.

[audtatious]

Jeff is the city I live in

Yeah, the good 'ole days. Bike riding all over the place, walking miles and miles to the nearest store for candy, dumpster diving, Cox airplanes, playing in creeks, BB guns, kickball, football and tons of baseball.

I tell my daughter that I lived in Chicago from 3rd-6th grades and would walk to school unless it was raining or sub-zero. She does not get it when I told her I had to walk to school and it was uphill both ways...

[370Z/28]

oops.....sorry about calling you the wrong name.

[pfarmer]

Hell, I'd like her to see how things were when I grew up. Limited TV, no video games and we spent all day outside playing and roaming. Halloween was the time when the neighborhoods were crammed with kids going door to door, unlike today when I don't even have kids doing it at all around here. Kids don't know what they are missing out on.

Saturday morning- gather up my dollar allowance and whatever other money I could from collecting pop bottles around the neighborhood and taking to the store the night before. Usually I had a buck and a half to two bucks.

Now hop the bus to downtown Tacoma early in the morning with a friend. Drop in at Rhodes department store where one of my friends Mom worked and have a small breakfast in the cafeteria with her, she always bought.

Now down to the Dad's Rootbeer bottling plant which went from one upper elevation street to the one below. After walking through the plant gather up a six pack from the old guy at the bottom. Now over to the fish store to look for new and unusual guppies to raise for later pickup on way home. About noon go to show with remaining pop and purchase popcorn which took most of the buck and 40 cents or so left after the 10 cent bus ride in the morning. Talk about what it would be like to turn 12. Could not afford this without the pop from the old guy.

Watch movie then walk to Wright's park and visit Vets home across the street and play on their cannons. Walk in and watch tv and talk to some more old guys. Now walk across street and visit with old guy in the glass arboretum and see what his latest plant project is (the same as last week but he liked to explain it and we liked to listen to it weekly).

Play on play ground and then go back downtown to fish store to pick up fish stopping at Sears and Woolworth's. Sears was fun to go watch the air tubes deliver all the important stuff in the store between departments. Woolworth's good for a free ham sandwich. Hop bus home.

Perry

[Poyzinous]

Woolworths? wow perry. you're old. Bet you were dissappointed when they shut down after you got back from storming the beaches of normandy. I remember seeing a woolworths when I was like 6. The only one I've ever seen.

[370Z/28]

That is something I have told my kids. I had to help Mom around the house all week to get enough money to go to the Rexall Drug Store and buy a 45 and they can just download any song they want. I still have all those 45s too!

I still have my first pay stubs from my first job too. $1.65 an hour!

[biggie]

I still have my first pay stubs from my first job too. $1.65 an hour!

They had paper and printing abilities back then?

Sorry, I had to.

[370Z/28]

Gas was $.28 for premium and we had a 440 6bbl Charger that got 6 mpg. We had the fastest car in north Memphis, but we couldn't afford insurance for it.

Times were just so different back then. We would circle through Krystal, pick a race and head out to a deserted road and race. Cars and kids would be lined up all up and down the street. I'm surprised we all lived.

[audtatious]

Woolworth's and such were cool as they had the soda fountains back then. IIRC, some of the older Sears had them too.

We'd all go riding around looking for ramps and such. We were always wanting to jump something bigger and better than the other kids. In the winter, behind the townhouse we lived in was another row of townhouses and at the end was a big hill. Sledding was awesome and we'd see who can stand on the sled the longest going down the hill and hope we were off before thumping into the wooden fence at the bottom of the hill. I always wanted a schwinn Orange Crate but dealt with a regular one instead. I did have the "skid tire" on it and a 4' sissy bar at the back of the banana seat. Fun times.....Eventually you learned not to ride bikes with bare feet as stubbed toes hurt

Anyone remember "clackers"?

Saturday mornings were TV watching time. Basic Hannah-Barbara stuff followed by Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Outer Limits, Keystone Cops and shows like Rat patrol. Of course, Our Gang/Little Rascals. Sundays were for Animal Kingdom, Disney and such.

[370Z/28]

Oh yeah...I remember clackers. Boy, what a dangerous toy that was.

Remember Varooms?

[audtatious]

Yeah, but I knew of no one who had one....

I did have a Huffy Thunder Road

[370Z/28]

Oh baby....I had a Varoom. I thought I was bad as Hell with it too.

Don't remember my brand of bike. Just that it came from Sears. (didn't everything?)

[pfarmer]

That is something I have told my kids. I had to help Mom around the house all week to get enough money to go to the Rexall Drug Store and buy a 45 and they can just download any song they want. I still have all those 45s too!

I still have my first pay stubs from my first job too. $1.65 an hour!

I wish. Not counting berries, beans, etc. my first official job which I got a check for instead of cash paid $1.20 an hour. $1.40 was the minimum wage but this was a hospital and if I remember correctly was the same as an agricultural job.

However it is more than what minimum wage is now.

Perry

[pfarmer]

Gas was $.28 for premium and we had a 440 6bbl Charger that got 6 mpg. We had the fastest car in north Memphis, but we couldn't afford insurance for it.

Times were just so different back then. We would circle through Krystal, pick a race and head out to a deserted road and race. Cars and kids would be lined up all up and down the street. I'm surprised we all lived.

I sold gas for as low as 16 cents about 1968. I rember in the late 50s to early 60s gas wars typically had gas running for about 11 cents.

Perry

[370Z/28]

WOW!

[onelove.]

i grew up with my dad driving a s550, sl 65 amg, e 63 amg, and mom drove a cls 550...I understand where shes coming from. It gets annoying after a while. I love my G though. Any attention I get from my G makes me feel great, maybe because i bought the G myself.

But she will definitely change her mind when she turns 16. I took the sl to prom my senior year in high school...haha good sht

[pfarmer]

Woolworth's and such were cool as they had the soda fountains back then. IIRC, some of the older Sears had them too.

We'd all go riding around looking for ramps and such. Anyone remember "clackers"?

Remember Eskimo Balls? Good way to get brained. One sort of ramp I remember was in Tacoma in the 60's there were moving ramps between street levels. We would ride bikes down them which allowed you to go very fast and then change speeds at the bottom and we would ride up them which was sort of hard to do because you had to ride fast in order to maintain balance. Funny thing was no one seemed to care. Often we would have an audience of oldsters and youngsters laughing at out efforts.

Skate boards were in fact skates (often steel wheels) nailed to boards purchased from the Goodwill or Salvation Army. You had to be really good to do some of the tricks you see today. I can still ride a skate board today and amazed when I look at an example of what we made nearly half a century ago. No helmets, no gloves, no pads, just skin left on the pavement.

Perry

[Beancooker]

So, my 14yo daughter comes home from staying at a friends house Friday night and the first thing she says is that my G coupe embarrasses her and she wished I would get rid of it. I'm like WTF?

Seems every time she has friends over or they pick her up at the house they all drool over the coupe and keep talking about it which embarrasses her because they all assume we are rich. To her the solution is to get rid of it....Maybe I should ask her today what I should downgrade to in order to end it

Upgrade in performance, and downgrade in looks, status and attention...

Look at my sig.

[audtatious]

I don't want to step down that low....

I told her I would simply get her a Geo Metro when she gets her license cuz all she was going to do was wreck it anyway

[biggie]

I don't want to step down that low....

I told her I would simply get her a Geo Metro when she gets her license cuz all she was going to do was wreck it anyway

An Aztek would be real cheap by then.

[audtatious]

True.....I'll have to look into that

[Poyzinous]

An Aztek would be real cheap by then.

I'm Aztec! One-eigth anyway. Not enough to make me want to sever someone's head and play tlachtli with it. Or cook it. I'm not a very good Aztec.

[infinitgkid]

I sold gas for as low as 16 cents about 1968. I rember in the late 50s to early 60s gas wars typically had gas running for about 11 cents.

Perry

Good lord...

how old ARE you?

[Poyzinous]

Perry is 1His profile proves it. But seriously, the guy probably fought in WW1.

[infinitgkid]

Perry is 1His profile proves it. But seriously, the guy probably fought in WW1.

...believable

[pfarmer]

Good lord...

how old ARE you?

Old enough to be retired. Not old enough to be retired. This gives you a spread of about 7 years. If you guess wrong I will not Mash you.

Perry

[infinitgkid]

Old enough to be retired. Not old enough to be retired. This gives you a spread of about 7 years. If you guess wrong I will not Mash you.

Perry

It's too early in the morning for me to try and figure that out right now... my brain doesn't operate until after 1:00pm OR when I see an attractive female...

But seeing how neither one of those have occurred yet... I give up...

[Beancooker]

Old enough to be retired. Not old enough to be retired. This gives you a spread of about 7 years. If you guess wrong I will not Mash you.

Perry

Damn, just noticed you're right down the road from me. I work in South Tumwater, exit 101...