Back before cellphones
Remember the rows of pay phones campgrounds had near the office? Phone calls when you changed campgrounds and periodically so people back home could get in touch if they had to. It was nothing to be o...
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valhalla360 wrote:2112 wrote:
We were in Medina Tx a few days ago and there is a working pay phone right outside of the Apple Store there. The 1st pay phone I've seen in years.
Are you sure it was working? You do occasionally see old non-functional ones still sitting around.
This thread seems to be the grumpy old man thread. How many want to go back to the old days of mechanical carbureted engines...because those pesky new fangled computers that come with fuel injected engines can fail.
We were just discussing carbureted engines a few days ago.
I, personally, would much rather have the computer controlled fuel injection than pumping twice before turning it over, flooded engines, out of adjustment carburetor, stuck choke with black smoke belching out of the tailpipe (washing down cylinder walls), and all the other great things from carburetors.
Everyone bragged that they got 20 miles per gallon (and a lot of them lied !). Now we would suspect a problem if we only got 20 mpg.
By the way, I resemble that grumpy old man thing...
