Question for the "old guys"...Is it just me or are there others?

[SOLANCO]

Getting old I miss those who are gone. But there are things I miss a lot more.
I grew up in a civil community in a civil society. If I misbehaved not only did the community at large let me know, they also told my family. There was both a belief and a commitment to standards of behavior. My parents would not have objected if a neighbor swatted my butt. Neither were they concerned when the retired guy next door taught me things about wood working. I received a Mossberg .22 unmentionable for Christmas when I was 6. I already knew the rules and was watched carefully until the adults knew that I was careful and responsible.
By the time I was 9 and we were at the Great Bay in New Jersey I was on the water all day in a 16 foot garvey. Usually ran it out of gas and drifted/.polled/rowed for an hour or two to get home. There were watermen. They lived off of harvesting clams and crabs. They watched me and, when I got in trouble, fixed it.
Please pardon me if you are offended when I observe that the world is NOT a better place now.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

My question for those members of a similar age is am I alone in this somewhat crazy endeavor or are there others out there like me? Bob P.

I retired, then I unretired. Moss started growing.
Keep busy now a days, answering questions about vintage auto carburetion.
We make dirty old men happy around the world, and piss off the EPA.
Best part I get paid for talking.

One thing I wanted as a boy was the Dickson Davey Crockett knife. $12.95 was a million back then.
About 10 years ago, I saw one on E-Bay with papers. Its next to me ask we speak.

 

[oldwood]

Not alone.........I'm 75 , and got started trying to find out the what ,and why of early American history since 5th grade. Historical markers along the roads in Western Pa. , showed me there was much more to local history than we had been told.

 

[BullRunBear]

You are certainly not alone. In my 60s I started on a similar path. I'm limited as getting up from the ground is an adventure these days. (Amazing what can be done while sitting on a chair or bench.) Fire starting, cooking with cast iron, minor leather sewing projects, using basic hand tools, fiber arts, food preservation, and gardening have become enjoyable hobbies and led to ever more admiration for what pioneers and those on a frontier were able to achieve. (I may not do them well but trying is better than wasting time on social media or perched in front of vapid TV shows.) And it has all added to my enjoyment with using traditional black powder guns.

Jeff

 

[Whitworth]

I retired, then I unretired. Moss started growing.
Keep busy now a days, answering questions about vintage auto carburetion.
We make dirty old men happy around the world, and piss off the EPA.
Best part I get paid for talking.

One thing I wanted as a boy was the Dickson Davey Crockett knife. $12.95 was a million back then.
About 10 years ago, I saw one on E-Bay with papers. Its next to me ask we speak.

Ah yes, the fine art of jetting and synchronizing multiple carburetors. Been there done that, still have some jets in the tool box over 50 years old for Honda CB750 Four and a Rochester Quadra Jet too

 

[Omahkapi'si]

The weird thing about reunions is how everybody got old but you… very strange phenomenon.

 

[Coinneach]

RR, getting old has been one hell of a ride! being old sucks.

Sure is, aging is a cruel affliction but the alternative is unacceptable.

 

[Coinneach]

We were all lied too for years! there is nothing good about getting old, not a *@# darn thing! (IMHO)

I disagree, at our age we can urinate just about anywhere we damn well please, mumble at anyone who we dislike; smirk at ol gals who smile at us expectantly; bore our grandchildren with long winded accounts of "when I was your age ..."; stare at our granddaughters boyfriend while we're cradling a Shotgun; blow chunks of snot anywhere we have to wait in line for anything, and drive at the lowest acceptable speed possible just to remind everyone that we still have a License.
Come on fellas why cant aging be FUN ?

 

[LME]

Sure is, aging is a cruel affliction but the alternative is unacceptable.

The alternative could be the worst or best thing that can happen to a person . It all depends if you are prepared or not? We all are free moral agents!

 

[Coinneach]

The alternative could be the worst or best thing that can happen to a person . It all depends if you are prepared or not? We all are free moral agents!

"Moral agents", is that a J Edgar Hoover thing ?

 

[Packrat]

And I hope that the guy who poisoned Tylenol rots in a special place, all things with tamper proof wrappers just drive me nuts
Don't have arthritis yet but can't imagine getting some pill bottles open

 

[earlwb]

LOL, Whitworht, OMG we used to race Triumphs and BSA's...if you did not have Whitworth you were SOL and only Snap ON, the most expensive , sold them! Some bikesif destined for overseas(USA) mkt etc., had Whitworth, Metric & SAE on them!!! What a nightmare

I remember my Italian Motoguzzi having a different key for everything. It had a ignition switch key, a fork lock key, a left saddlebag key, a right saddlebag key, a top trunk box key and a key to unlock the side tool box cover too. All different.

Yeah I still have my Whitworth tools. From Way back when I had BSA and Norton motorcycles.

 

[rusticbob]

Try this!
My wife went to Florida for a week last winter to visit. I stayed behind to hold down the fort. As a test, I did not turn on the TV all week. I got lots of projects completed, listened to lots of “slow blues music”, and greatly enjoyed myself. You might try that for a few days, see if it works for you.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

I get that…I went to my class reunion last summer.

Who are these people?

I was invited to my class reunion, and was going to go , then i thought about it. I realized that I really did not like alot of the people back then, and I was pretty sure I would not like them now. Stayed home!

 

[Snake Pleskin]

I remember my Italian Motoguzzi having a different key for everything. It had a ignition switch key, a fork lock key, a left saddlebag key, a right saddlebag key, a top trunk box key and a key to unlock the side tool box cover too. All different.

Yeah I still have my Whitworth tools. From Way back when I had BSA and Norton motorcycles.

those were the days BSA, Matchless, Royal Enfield, Triumph, Norton (featther bed frame) Vincent....and Lucas , prince of darkness! Hard to match the looks,feel and sound of the old british twins.(IMHO)

 

[user 30283]

,I'm 73 and I love to shoot my muzzle loaders( all of which I built from kits) make fire with flint and steel , fire piston and bow and drill, throw hawk, use topo maps and compass, make rope on my rope machine, blacksmith on my forge, dabble in Indian sign language...... The list goes on. My living room looks like an old west museum. My wife and I are in to beading and bone and quill work also. We love to go to rendezvous because we can actually talk about the "old days" and crafts and see other people demonstrate them. The only thing that puts a real damper on all this is that I can't get any young people to get their nose out of their electronics long enough to be interested in any of these things. I'm afraid when my generation is gone, a lot of the skills and crafts will go with us.

 

[Mtman725]

Just my 2 cents but as we age and I am there, we enjoy, appreciate the simpler things more because we not rushing around rising family's . Worrying about our careers, trying to get a bigger house. It a privilege to get old many don't, enjoy the ride while we can. And old boy told me many years ago " Getting Old is not for the faint of heart" and he was right.


Mtman725

 

[sheriff john]

Then there's "stuff", as in "Where did all this stuff come from and why do we still have it?" Different stages in life bring divergent interests that are fun for awhile, but, for one reason or another, are no longer even thought about nor possible to engage in. Wimmin have "things", men have "stuff". Our offspring have little interest in either our "stuff" nor "things". I thank the Lord for our local antique mall, gunshows, and my dumpster.

Gunshows are my favorite mini-vacation, conversations with other like-minded folks a novel thing for me personally. "Why is your stuff so cheap?" "Because I don't want to take this stuff back home," is my usual answer. "Make me an offer." Only once did I say, "Because it's all stolen."

 

[SPQR70AD]

yes, our bikes were from the early 60's

english motorcycles were junk just like their cars the MG and Triumph austin marina even jaguars were junk

 

[Snake Pleskin]

english motorcycles were junk just like their cars the MG and Triumph austin marina even jaguars were junk

That is why we have vanilla & chocolate, because people differ on what they think is good!