Young lady at the gas station...

[dennishoddy]

I’ve come across many tourist types on the Nature Conservancy gravel roads north of Pawhuska with flat tires that possibly would still be there with a blank look on their faces had I not stopped and helped them. It amazes me how many people don’t know righty tightly, lefty loosy or where the jack is or how to use it.


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Give em a plymouth from the 60's where the left side of the vehicle had left hand thread lug bolts while the right side had right handed threads.
Heads would explode!

 

[xseler]

Give em a plymouth from the 60's where the left side of the vehicle had left hand thread lug bolts while the right side had right handed threads.
Heads would explode!

Seems like I remember those having 'safety wheels' also. I think you had to put the tires on from the back side instead of the front side like regular wheels. Seems like this is what I remember..........


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[dennishoddy]

Seems like I remember those having 'safety wheels' also. I think you had to put the tires on from the back side instead of the front side like regular wheels. Seems like this is what I remember..........


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You may be correct, but I don't remember. Buddy had a plymouth and for some reason we had to change the tires in High School.
I fought that left side with a lug wrench with longer and longer cheaters, finally snapping the lug.
When looking at it, there was the letter L on the center of the lug. On the other side it said R. Light came on, and bingo!

 

[SoonerP226]

I am very surprised when someone actually counts back my change.

I had someone count back my change just recently. It was surprising, indeed.

 

[TedKennedy]

You may be correct, but I don't remember. Buddy had a plymouth and for some reason we had to change the tires in High School.
I fought that left side with a lug wrench with longer and longer cheaters, finally snapping the lug.
When looking at it, there was the letter L on the center of the lug. On the other side it said R. Light came on, and bingo!

When I sold auto parts (early 80s) - we had a Dorman drawer full of those. Lots of twisted off lugs over that.

As for Ramen noodles - a pack of those and a ziplock full of dehydrated deer, beans and veggies makes a great backpacking meal.

 

[Aries]

Ramen noodles are okay if you're hungry, broke, and can't cook.

 

[HoLeChit]

A guy at work was kinda making fun of his teenage daughter burning Ramen noodles and setting off the smoke alarm. I irritated him when I said it sounds like a parenting fail to me. That is a skill parents should be teaching kids.

Edit to add: it was in the microwave. Youth was born in early 2000s.

This is kinda my thought process on this.

BUT, not all of these "kids" are morons. Granted, a lot are, but most of that is due to bad parenting and a lack of drive. I'm probably one of the younger guys on this forum, but I don't have an issue using keys, typewriters, VCR's, rebuilding engines (diesel ones at least), tying my shoes, a knot, fishing line, or a tie; cooking, or anything else that seems to be "too advanced for kids these days". Leaning on broad, sweeping generalizations ends up causing any one of us to miss out on what is really going on.

Give it a few years, none of us will understand how day to day things work and we'll be having our descendants teaching us how to get by.

 

[PanhandleGlocker]

This is kinda my thought process on this.

BUT, not all of these "kids" are morons. Granted, a lot are, but most of that is due to bad parenting and a lack of drive. I'm probably one of the younger guys on this forum, but I don't have an issue using keys, typewriters, VCR's, rebuilding engines (diesel ones at least), tying my shoes, a knot, fishing line, or a tie; cooking, or anything else that seems to be "too advanced for kids these days". Leaning on broad, sweeping generalizations ends up causing any one of us to miss out on what is really going on.

Give it a few years, none of us will understand how day to day things work and we'll be having our descendants teaching us how to get by.

i think I AM the youngest one on this forum. Only reason I understand most of the older things is because the OK Panhandle is technologically 20 years behind OKC and Tulsa.

Or maybe it’s because I went straight to work in Oil and Gas after high school and didn’t go to college.

 

[TedKennedy]

I was listening to some ditz on the radio yesterday talking about how great it was that we don't separate boys to shop/girls to home ec anymore.

That moron obviously hasn't tried to hire a production worker in the last decade.

 

[golddigger14s]

I went to shop and home ec in the 70's. Loved both. I have guns and a sewing machine.