I MISS

[jrbfishn]

I don't miss hoeing anything.
Or shovels.


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[robertc1024]

I miss bb gun wars.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

I DON'T miss hoeing cotton.

Before my time. The combines and module builders weren't too bad.

 

[robertc1024]

I can tell you my mother doesn't miss picking cotton by hand.

 

[karlac]

Don't miss cleaning stalls, shoeing horses, mowing with a push mower, weeding flower beds, raking pine needles, or loading hay.

 

[Vaquero]

Hauling hay. Whew! Hottest, dryest time of year.
Then you get to haul it back out in the coldest nastiest weather.
The cows sure appreciated it though.

 

[karlac]

Hauling hay. Whew! Hottest, dryest time of year.
Then you get to haul it back out in the coldest nastiest weather.
The cows sure appreciated it though.

T. W. "Tightwad" Moore, our neighbor dairy farmer, would pay me a nickel/bale, or allow me to quail hunt on his land.

I quail hunted...

Do miss that.

 

[robertc1024]

Hauling hay. Whew! Hottest, dryest time of year.
Then you get to haul it back out in the coldest nastiest weather.
The cows sure appreciated it though.

Brings back good memories. Cheapest hay around was at Bergstrom AFB in Austin. My best friend's dad had a 24' low-boy that we packed about six bales high. I was too stupid to wear a long sleeve shirt and the next day it looked like a deranged chimp attacked my forearms with an ice pick.

 

[Vaquero]

Brings back good memories. Cheapest hay around was at Bergstrom AFB in Austin. My best friend's dad had a 24' low-boy that we packed about six bales high. I was too stupid to wear a long sleeve shirt and the next day it looked like a deranged chimp attacked my forearms with an ice pick.

Yup.
Hauling hay was the only chore I wore chaps for.

 

[karlac]

Yup.
Hauling hay was the only chore I wore chaps for.

The time tested "two hands, and a knee" method...

 

[Vaquero]

The time tested "two hands, and a knee" method...

Cuz the bales weighed as much as me.

 

[Skip]

Simpler times.......

"Character is doing the right thing even when no one is watching"

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Good Lord... that'll do it. How many motors did you blow?

Never blew any of my racing motors, but did trash my stock SBC in a Chevelle I had...I believe the key was in sitting those solid lifters, most folks could not set solids and in those days hydraulics would float time you hit 5000 rpm

I miss.........
.50cent bottle of beer.
Not having a bleedin' cellphone.
Waiting on the latest issue of Guns&Ammo and American Rifleman to arrive in the mail.
Bricks of .22LR for $7.99
McDonalds french fires cooked the way they used to be.
Free air and water at the Filling Station.
King Ranch Chicken made by Mom.
Catching perch with a cane pole.
Listening to the cicada sing at sundown on the Guadalupe river.
Lightning bugs.
Freezing my ass off in a deer stand.

Thanks for the memories

Those definitely bring back childhood memories. I'll add "Boston Blackie" to that Black & White list.
25¢ burgers and 15¢ fries at McDonald's
Coca-Cola in the 8 oz bottles that you bought for a dime out of a machine with metal slides (the REAL original, not the crap they're pushing off as "original" now).
35¢ a pack cigarettes out of the machine
25¢ Saturday movie matinees .... showing the old Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" movie serials.

I remember when Mickey D's sold burgers for .15 or a burger and fries for a quarter and to this day I believe Coke taste better in an 8 oz bottle!

How many played this game. We all head down to the store and pluck a 8 oz coke out of the cooler, walk up to the pay counter and each guy has to guess the name of the city were the coke was bottled, the guy who got the closest won and we had to buy his coke...how many on here KNOW how we knew where the coke was bottled???????

I DON'T miss hoeing cotton.

First time a drug a cotton sack I was 20 years old and to this day I believe EVERY swingin Richard and bouncin Betty should drag a cotton say for a day and ride a Greydog for 2 days...do that and you will never be poor!

After the cotton sack I moved on to bigger and better things like loading 3500 bale of hay up, yes UP in the barn by myself (no brothers), 2000 bale of Johnson grass @ 115 lbs per bale guaranteed and 1500 bale of Alfalfa @125 lbs per bale guaranteed....25 per bale if you loaded your own truck out in the field...

 

[vmax]

I miss life before cell phones

When I was a young teen, I could disappear with my fishing pole or 22 rifle for an entire Saturday and be back for supper. No body freaked out, nobody called 911, you could just go do what you wanted to.

 

[AcidFlashGordon]

How many played this game. We all head down to the store and pluck a 8 oz coke out of the cooler, walk up to the pay counter and each guy has to guess the name of the city were the coke was bottled, the guy who got the closest won and we had to buy his coke...how many on here KNOW how we knew where the coke was bottled???????

Bottom if I'm not mistaken....and I just might be because it's been so long since I even thought about this game. I do remember there was always someone who didn't check before opening the bottle and had to carefully hold it up to look.

I recently read an article that noted the city on the bottom didn't really have anything to do with where the Coke was bottled. That's where the distributor of the bottle was located...and sometimes it was made there.

 

[vmax]

the game, as I recall was to see who had a bottle that had the name of a city the furthest away and I would fish that bottle out of the coke cooler box with the galvanized tub. The bottles sat neck high in ice cold water. I remember if you drank it right there, they knocked off the price of the bottle deposit, so we would drink it in the store, and leave the empty bottle there.

good memories

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Bottom if I'm not mistaken....and I just might be because it's been so long since I even thought about this game. I do remember there was always someone who didn't check before opening the bottle and had to carefully hold it up to look.

I recently read an article that noted the city on the bottom didn't really have anything to do with where the Coke was bottled. That's where the distributor of the bottle was located...and sometimes it was made there.

I am sure it was the city were it was bottled at the bottling plant.

the game, as I recall was to see who had a bottle that had the name of a city the furthest away and I would fish that bottle out of the coke cooler box with the galvanized tub. The bottles sat neck high in ice cold water. I remember if you drank it right there, they knocked off the price of the bottle deposit, so we would drink it in the store, and leave the empty bottle there.

good memories

Remember it well.

We would go to the little store on the corner across from school and get an East Texas Lunch special: 8 oz: Coke, Dr Pepper, RC, Grapette, Nehi Orange or Big Red, 3 Musketeers candy bar and a small cardboard tube container of peanuts that could contain a nickel, dime or quarter inside and sometimes you would get a coin. We would drink about 1/2 of the coke and then POUR the peanuts into the bottle, drink the fizz from the salt and drink chew the peanuts...

 

[jrbfishn]

Walking around collecting bottles to get money to buy candy and arrows. Or beans for supper. We thought we were rich.


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[karlac]

Walking around collecting bottles to get money to buy candy and arrows. Or beans for supper. We thought we were rich.

SOP on the way home from school. We would get off the school bus a mile or so before the SerStaGro and scour the ditches on both sides of the highway for coke bottles.

On a good day we could find enough to buy an RC, a moon pie, and maybe have enough left for a yellow "shyster" spinning lure, which was the favorite of the bass in most Texas stock tanks in those days.

 

[karlac]

I am sure it was the city were it was bottled at the bottling plant.


Remember it well.

We would go to the little store on the corner across from school and get an East Texas Lunch special: 8 oz: Coke, Dr Pepper, RC, Grapette, Nehi Orange or Big Red, 3 Musketeers candy bar and a small cardboard tube container of peanuts that could contain a nickel, dime or quarter inside and sometimes you would get a coin. We would drink about 1/2 of the coke and then POUR the peanuts into the bottle, drink the fizz from the salt and drink chew the peanuts...

We added a big pickle, nickel each, from the big pickle jar that was always on the counter of those old country, cross roads stores.