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Grew up in a small town, 99% of the roads were Old roads. It took kindness, responsibility, ability and forethought to negotiate them and it was a BLAST!
Oh but I, do hope my words are read because I do care about my readers that I might share what I have learned.
. . . OlduglyCarl, (for this moment for I am sure someone somewhere already said such a thing.)
Thanks for the comment and the link, Sekeres.
Paying bills on the phone only made me think of three different Hispanics who called to say I had won that Publisher Clearing House jackpot. All I had to do was to give them my checking account information. No way, Jose!
Some Caucasian guy with a northern accent also called to say I had won some surplus governement money giveaway Adam Schuff. I strung him along for days just for the hell of it.
He even showed me super expensive sporty cars I had also won on the PC. Kept wondering when the jerk would make his move.
Finally I was given instructions on how to wire $750 from a local Walmart to another in El Paso and he asked me of I thought of that. I was not profane. I told him that sounded like one big pile of baloney and hung up.
He called me back screaming, "Why can't we talk like big men? Big men!" Me dino hung up on him again. I imagined that maybe he told his Mafia boss he had a live one and --well, I don't care. Hey, did I go off subject here?
Me dino just plain could not do that to someone else.
But them I'm not a sociopath without a conscience or a soul.
Old-fart note -- I've used one of those treadle machines, my grandmother's White, and the main difficulty is that there is no reverse. You have to sink the needle, lift the pressure foot, and swing the fabric all the way around.
Do any young folks at all have any idea how to use a sewing machine? Or how to darn socks?
According to someone on an internet somewhere, both Elias Howe and Isaac Singer were left handed, and sewing machines are inherently left handed. I'd never noticed that, and have my (right-handed) doubts. The machine shown is standard configuration and the lady behind it has an artistic license.
I also have used my grandmother's treadle machine (Singer) when I was a teenager, RIP grandma and the sewing machine wherever it is. Yeah she is using it from the back side!
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Copy/past/view memes to your hearts content!