Without stating your age: How old are you?

I can recall back when I was something like 14 or 15 putting two two gallon used oil cans in the front basket of my bicycle and one each in the "saddle bag baskets" in the back and ride down the state highway one mile to the store/gas station. Fill them up with gasoline and ride back home to put the gas in our "lot car"!

Eight gallons of gas sure made it tricky to ride the bike, especially the four gallons up high in the front!
 
when i was about 13/14 a friends father owed a garage...........he bought a new technological device for spark-plugs........put the spark end of the plug in it and pushed a button and the electrode was sandblasted and the plug could be tested as well....

Aww heck Doug - Jim’s wife has one of those on the kitchen counter - right next to the toaster.....:lmao:
 
When I was a kid, maybe about five, me Mum used to let me go to the corner shop with an old petrol tin to buy a gallon of Aladdin Pink paraffin (kerosene) for the kitchen heater. Cost me 2/6d. That's two shillings and sixpence, aka half a crown. Most young folk in Britain take on a bemused expression when you talk old money to 'em.
Was so little, could just about carry the full gallon tin. Now, no kid in Britain would be allowed out to a shop on their own at that age. And certainly, no shop now would even think of selling an inflammable liquid to a child under, I dunno, thirty? Provided they have proof of age. And maybe Police authentication they're not an arsonist/terrorist. Changed days . . .

Hi Raymondo,
guy I knew was a bus conductor on the UK's D (for decimal) day.
No training. This is England, you can cope.
They gave him his float in the new money and sent his bus off to take the morning shift to work.
Took whatever coin the passengers shoved at him, cranked out tickets and gave change at random.
Cashing out at shift end he reckoned he'd lost a day or so's wages.
Found he'd made so much that he split it with his driver.
 
guy I knew was a bus conductor on the UK's D (for decimal) day.
No training. This is England, you can cope.

Decimal Day was a big thing! When I said Most young folk in Britain take on a bemused expression when you talk old money to 'em I should explain that I mean those under fifty-something . . .

I still get laughs when something costs £1.50 and I say 'Good Grief - that's thirty bob!'
 
Decimal Day was a big thing! When I said Most young folk in Britain take on a bemused expression when you talk old money to 'em I should explain that I mean those under fifty-something . . .

I still get laughs when something costs £1.50 and I say 'Good Grief - that's thirty bob!'
Went back to England as a GI a year or two after Dec. Day. Listening to the old folk in the pubs you'da thought it was the end of the world as we knew it. :rolleyes:
 
I was in GB '78-'80, they were doing the Decimalization still. There was a self-serve gas pump somewhere that would only take old Pound notes. So if you had the new money and the station was closed, you were SOL!
 
Went back to England as a GI a year or two after Dec. Day. Listening to the old folk in the pubs you'da thought it was the end of the world as we knew it. :rolleyes:

Hi Jim,
it was the end of base12 numeracy, anyway.
12 pennies to a shilling, 240 pennies/40 sixpences/20 shillings/10 florins/8 half-crowns to a pound.
And you could count the "silver" with a weigh scale regardless of which coins it was made up of.
"Nostalgia's OK but it's not what it was, eh?"
 
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