Do you remember? A generational perspective ...

[Pablo]

If I remember we took a reddish powder, heated it in a test tube over a bunsen and it turned into Mercury. Mecuric oxide perhaps?

Pretty sure we did the same thing!

 

[Opelman]

In elementary school I rode in a Crown school bus with a manual transmission,It also had a 2 stroke Detroit Diesel . I will never forget that sound.

The school district I worked for had several of those, both turbo and non. The big 90 passenger 3 axle had a 300/350 Cummins with a BIG Allison automatic. That bus would move. We ran that one well into the 2000s. Best school buses ever. We had a few in daily service at 400,000 miles.

 

[Skippy722]

My Dad mentioned washing his hands with benzine after working with modeling compounds.
Knowing him, I'd bet he could do that whilst smoking.

At the first machine shop I worked at as a teenager they were showing me the solvent tank and telling me to wear gloves while using it and don’t smoke around it… only for the other millwright to come over, cigarette lit in his mouth, dunk his hands in the tank and go “yeah listen to Bob, he knows what he’s talking about!”

Pretty sure it was naptha as it smelled kinda like gasoline… I always wore gloves while using it.

 

[Kira]

I knew a guy who worked in a marina on his back under raised pleasure craft repairing fiberglass.
He told me he did it all while smoking cigarettes.
I thought he was kinda goofy.

 

[Bailes1992]

I remember when people didn't stare at their phones and instead carried on decent conversation with one another.

This is something I call total nonsense.

I have conversations going on, with multiple people almost constantly thanks to my phone.

While I might not be talking to someone face to face, it doesn't mean I'm not being sociable. And I don't think it takes anything away from my social skills either.

If it wasn't for my phone I probably wouldn't spend as much time on here where I've had some really interesting conversations and also learned a hell of a lot about the US, let alone oil.

 

[andrewg]

This is something I call total nonsense.

I have conversations going on, with multiple people almost constantly thanks to my phone.

While I might not be talking to someone face to face, it doesn't mean I'm not being sociable. And I don't think it takes anything away from my social skills either.

If it wasn't for my phone I probably wouldn't spend as much time on here where I've had some really interesting conversations and also learned a hell of a lot about the US, let alone oil.

Total nonsense? Hardly. You are obviously oblivious to the point I was making. While you may be communicating with multiple people at once on your phone....those around you in public settings are ignored. It's annoying and rude.

 

[Glenda W.]

I remember rabbit ears on top of the tv. All networks went off air every night. In the morning all networks came back on with the national anthem!!!