My Lease Is Nearly Up On The Complaint Thread

kyoto kid

DanaTA said:

kyoto kid said:

MistyMist said:

kyoto kid said:

LeatherGryphon said:

MistyMist said:

remember when we wanted to look up something, we had to go to a library.  open a drawer of cards with dewey decimal #s.  The era of the dewey decimal.  librarian was a 4 year degree. 

looking up newspaper articles on the microfiche machine.

the days of going to blockbuster to rent a movie. rewinding.  late return fees.  

the lil yellow snap in things to play 45s.  cutting out the back of cereal boxes for a cardboard 45.  

Telephone numbers with only 4 digits.

Automobile headlight highbeam switch on the floor beside your left foot.

78 RPM records.

Cheap clock radios that started pre-buzzing a minute or so before they actually turned on.

Oily creams for your hair.

Separately purchased packs of naked razor blades for shaving.

Being able to burn your household trash in a barrel in your backyard because it was all wood or paper, no plastic.

Laundry hanging on a clothesline outdoor.

Men's pants designs that came half way up their abdomen.

Lobster Tails bigger than your plate.

That little triangular vent window in the front that was the only relief you had before air-conditioning was offered in cars.

The TV repairman.

Big cans of Charles Chips potato chips delivered to your door.

The Interstate roads being new?

"Stuckey's" gift shops in the south.

15 cent McDonald's burgers?

The coal truck dumping its load down that slide into your coal bin.

Toboggans.

That clock that never worked, in your car dash.

 

...arrrrgh...don't get me started...

...roller skates with metal wheels that caught every crack in the pavement.

...real "penny candy"

...when the news was really "news".

...when for 50¢ you could go to the cinema, see a double bill Saturday matinee with two cartoons, and popcorn, a soda, and a box of Jujyfruits cost 10¢ each

...you had to ask the parents for permission to use the telephone

...there were phone booths every few blocks.

...the place to hang out after school was the corner grocery or the soda fountain at the druggists.

...city bus drivers gave change, wore a real uniform, and the buses (at least where I lived) had padded leather covered seats.

...graffiti was actually readable and at times, even made sense.

...root beer was made with real sassafras root.

...I told you don't get me started...

 

i miss clotheslines.  no laundry mats for our mommies

...yeah I remember mum hanging laundry out on nice days. We had a set of three 6' tall wooden posts with 2 x 4s horizontally between them that had hooks from which we ran clotheslines to the back wall of the house. Didn't need fabric softeners or artificial fragrances back then.

The Washing Machine was an old Speed Queen wringer washer that had to be filled from a hose attached to the utility sink faucet. Before that it was filled from a hand pump next to the sinks that lead from a large in-ground rain barrel behind the house and for hot water washing, water had to be boiled on the stove upstairs and brought down as we didn't have a water heater yet (same had to be done for baths).

During rainy weather or winter she had to hang it in the basement as we didn't have one of those new fanged dryers yet.

...yeah interesting times back then.. 

I thought you were 62, not 102!  We were on welfare and we had a Maytag washer.  No dryer, though.  And hot running water.  And we lived in a cheap apartment owned by a cheap landlord.

Dana

...we lived in what were considered "the sticks" at the time. We had our own vegetable garden and fruit trees and there were a lot of open fields a short walk or bike ride away.  Our "extended family" (mum myself and my siblings along with our grandparents) was not well to do either but we managed (dad left when I was very young). Both grandparents literally came over on the boat before the war (my grandad as a young lad of 7 from Russia, ten years before the revolution) so the lifestyle we led was a bit more "old world" and basic.

TJohn

I still live on the farm I grew up on. The land has been in the family for over 100 years. I don't farm anymore, but we had cattle, chickens and other assorted livestock. I drove a tractor, baled hay, plowed etc. from the age of 12. We always had a garden, and Mom canned enough food to last us all winter. Dad worked at a jewelry store as a watchmaker, came home after work and worked on the farm until dark. This was not considered a hard life, just living. 

 

LeatherGryphon

Yeah, gardens.  We always had a vegetable garden and lots of flower plots around the property.  My mother did most of the gardening and canning.  She used to complain that the most prolific thing she grew was rocks as she raked out wheelbarrows full each spring.

I on the other hand tried to hide when she let slip that she needed gardening help.  I did however, develop a love for rocks and have a small dish of them hibernating on top of my bookcase.  I have yet to see them breed like my mother claimed they did.

LeatherGryphon

I use a TracFone very  basic phone.  Just a tiny Samsung flip open phone that has a useless camera and impossible to use tiny screen that jokingly says it supports a web browser.  That's OK.  I'm happy with it.  I rarely ever use it.  No one ever calls me on it.   I don't text.  I carry it with me when outside and I don't even have connectivity in my house.  I use it for portability and "emergencies" only, and I just, you know, "talk" on the phone if I do use it.  How quaint.

However, I've gotten an e-mail and a couple of pop up messages (on that tiny useless screen) saying that my G2 phone will soon become obsolete as G2 service is being phased out by the carriers, and that I should take advantage of TracFone's offer for a phone upgrade.  I thought about that for a couple of weeks and tried, without success, to call the number they suggested in the pop-up and in the e-mail.  So I reverted to browsing.  I was not impressed with the stability of TracFone's website either.  After several days and many attempts I finally was able to make contact through their website and navigate the upgrade offer, select a phone, and purchase it for $9.99 instead of $29.99 (they gave me a $20 discount for my old phone which apparently I don't have to return because it is obsolete).  They said my paid days and accumulated minutes (about 2000) will carry over to my new phone.  I hope so.

But the point of this useless post is that apparently I have now joined the relatively modern world and will have a phone that is now too big to just drop in my pocket along with my keys.  It is a 3.8 inch, LG running Android 4.4 and using 3G service.  But I will now be able to take 3Mpixel photos of my food and myself and my forearm and other useless crap, and squint at tiny characters on the screen and worry about viruses on my phone just like everybody else.  Yea!   But hopefully, I can continue to buy just 90 days w/60 minutes for $21.93 every three months (~ $7.30/month) which is very easy on my budget.

I could now buy a "Selfie Stick" to antagonize people around me but I've found that my old wooden cane is more effective at poking and proding.  And with a phone mount screwed near the end could be very stylish.

Mistara

i'se superwoman today  

 

swept away dead leaves gathered outside my door
trimmed the bush blocking my window light  (wondering if i can grow an indoor potted basil on window sil)
scrubbing bubbled my sink and turlet
bread loafing in the breadmaker
and is ony 11:30am

Mistara

DanaTA said:

MistyMist said:

kyoto kid said:

LeatherGryphon said:

MistyMist said:

remember when we wanted to look up something, we had to go to a library.  open a drawer of cards with dewey decimal #s.  The era of the dewey decimal.  librarian was a 4 year degree. 

looking up newspaper articles on the microfiche machine.

the days of going to blockbuster to rent a movie. rewinding.  late return fees.  

the lil yellow snap in things to play 45s.  cutting out the back of cereal boxes for a cardboard 45.  

Telephone numbers with only 4 digits.

Automobile headlight highbeam switch on the floor beside your left foot.

78 RPM records.

Cheap clock radios that started pre-buzzing a minute or so before they actually turned on.

Oily creams for your hair.

Separately purchased packs of naked razor blades for shaving.

Being able to burn your household trash in a barrel in your backyard because it was all wood or paper, no plastic.

Laundry hanging on a clothesline outdoor.

Men's pants designs that came half way up their abdomen.

Lobster Tails bigger than your plate.

That little triangular vent window in the front that was the only relief you had before air-conditioning was offered in cars.

The TV repairman.

Big cans of Charles Chips potato chips delivered to your door.

The Interstate roads being new?

"Stuckey's" gift shops in the south.

15 cent McDonald's burgers?

The coal truck dumping its load down that slide into your coal bin.

Toboggans.

That clock that never worked, in your car dash.

 

...arrrrgh...don't get me started...

...roller skates with metal wheels that caught every crack in the pavement.

...real "penny candy"

...when the news was really "news".

...when for 50¢ you could go to the cinema, see a double bill Saturday matinee with two cartoons, and popcorn, a soda, and a box of Jujyfruits cost 10¢ each

...you had to ask the parents for permission to use the telephone

...there were phone booths every few blocks.

...the place to hang out after school was the corner grocery or the soda fountain at the druggists.

...city bus drivers gave change, wore a real uniform, and the buses (at least where I lived) had padded leather covered seats.

...graffiti was actually readable and at times, even made sense.

...root beer was made with real sassafras root.

...I told you don't get me started...

 

i miss clotheslines.  no laundry mats for our mommies

No...instead the laundry got rained on, or if you were less lucky, the birds pooped on it!!!

Dana

 

grew up in apts, brooklyn and astoria. lotsa pigeons

Mistara

divamakeup said:

MistyMist said:

remember when we wanted to look up something, we had to go to a library.  open a drawer of cards with dewey decimal #s.  The era of the dewey decimal.  librarian was a 4 year degree. 

looking up newspaper articles on the microfiche machine.

the days of going to blockbuster to rent a movie. rewinding.  late return fees.  

the lil yellow snap in things to play 45s.  cutting out the back of cereal boxes for a cardboard 45.  

I recently went back to visit my parents and I hadn't been back in years - and found that the town they live in still has an active Blockbuster. God bless tiny towns in the "heart of America". lol

 

our blockbuster empty store was turned into a library.  

like the cosmos has a sense of poetic justice  lol

starionwolf

I forgot to log into this site to complain. lol  I didn't have money to buy Rayn or Haley.  Looks like I'll need to wait for another sale.

I have a smartphone that works on Tracfone's network.  I have not activated the phone yet.

AnotherUserName

Priming and painting the living room...

Cutting down two dead trees...

Hanging new lights in the dining room...

Todays list

And then, of course, soon ill have to trim the cursed hedges....

TJohn

Doing nothing and lots of it.

TJohn

AnotherUserName said:

Priming and painting the living room...

Cutting down two dead trees...

Hanging new lights in the dining room...

Todays list

And then, of course, soon ill have to trim the cursed hedges....

You shouldn't have planted cursed hedges in the first place. Blessed ones are much easier to care for.

TJohn

MistyMist said:

DanaTA said:

MistyMist said:

kyoto kid said:

LeatherGryphon said:

MistyMist said:

remember when we wanted to look up something, we had to go to a library.  open a drawer of cards with dewey decimal #s.  The era of the dewey decimal.  librarian was a 4 year degree. 

looking up newspaper articles on the microfiche machine.

the days of going to blockbuster to rent a movie. rewinding.  late return fees.  

the lil yellow snap in things to play 45s.  cutting out the back of cereal boxes for a cardboard 45.  

Telephone numbers with only 4 digits.

Automobile headlight highbeam switch on the floor beside your left foot.

78 RPM records.

Cheap clock radios that started pre-buzzing a minute or so before they actually turned on.

Oily creams for your hair.

Separately purchased packs of naked razor blades for shaving.

Being able to burn your household trash in a barrel in your backyard because it was all wood or paper, no plastic.

Laundry hanging on a clothesline outdoor.

Men's pants designs that came half way up their abdomen.

Lobster Tails bigger than your plate.

That little triangular vent window in the front that was the only relief you had before air-conditioning was offered in cars.

The TV repairman.

Big cans of Charles Chips potato chips delivered to your door.

The Interstate roads being new?

"Stuckey's" gift shops in the south.

15 cent McDonald's burgers?

The coal truck dumping its load down that slide into your coal bin.

Toboggans.

That clock that never worked, in your car dash.

 

...arrrrgh...don't get me started...

...roller skates with metal wheels that caught every crack in the pavement.

...real "penny candy"

...when the news was really "news".

...when for 50¢ you could go to the cinema, see a double bill Saturday matinee with two cartoons, and popcorn, a soda, and a box of Jujyfruits cost 10¢ each

...you had to ask the parents for permission to use the telephone

...there were phone booths every few blocks.

...the place to hang out after school was the corner grocery or the soda fountain at the druggists.

...city bus drivers gave change, wore a real uniform, and the buses (at least where I lived) had padded leather covered seats.

...graffiti was actually readable and at times, even made sense.

...root beer was made with real sassafras root.

...I told you don't get me started...

 

i miss clotheslines.  no laundry mats for our mommies

No...instead the laundry got rained on, or if you were less lucky, the birds pooped on it!!!

Dana

 

grew up in apts, brooklyn and astoria. lotsa pigeons

Pigeons were in the apartment? Did you try closing the windows?

TJohn

Where's Miss Kulay? At work with a dead battery in her phone?

DanaTA

LeatherGryphon said:

I use a TracFone very  basic phone.  Just a tiny Samsung flip open phone that has a usless camera and impossible to use tiny screen that jokingly says it supports a web browser. 

Samsung Alias 2?  That's what I have.  I told them to turn off texting on my account, years ago.  I was getting wrong "number" texts and advertisements, and it was costing me money.  So I nipped that in the bud before it piled up.

Dana

AnotherUserName

Tjohn said:

AnotherUserName said:

Priming and painting the living room...

Cutting down two dead trees...

Hanging new lights in the dining room...

Todays list

And then, of course, soon ill have to trim the cursed hedges....

You shouldn't have planted cursed hedges in the first place. Blessed ones are much easier to care for.

Hah! They came with the cursed house!

AnotherUserName

Tjohn said:

I still live on the farm I grew up on. The land has been in the family for over 100 years.

This is awsome!

TJohn

AnotherUserName said:

Tjohn said:

I still live on the farm I grew up on. The land has been in the family for over 100 years.

This is awsome!

Thanks. My roots run deep. 

TSasha Smith

Tjohn said:

Where's Miss Kulay? At work with a dead battery in her phone?

Outside the nearby mall.  My tablet keeps trying to connect to the sax fifth avenue WiFi but I am not in sax fifth avenue store.  I pay to get wireless service on this tablet so there is no need to connect to that store's WiFi.  I keep telling my tablet to forget that WiFi but it keeps wanting to connect to it.

 

The WiFi is powered by AT&T but I do not use AT&T for anything. 

TSasha Smith

Tjohn said:

AnotherUserName said:

Tjohn said:

I still live on the farm I grew up on. The land has been in the family for over 100 years.

This is awsome!

Thanks. My roots run deep. 

My roots were so shallow I fell down.  Now I have no roots.

Mistara

Kulay Wolf said:

Tjohn said:

AnotherUserName said:

Tjohn said:

I still live on the farm I grew up on. The land has been in the family for over 100 years.

This is awsome!

Thanks. My roots run deep. 

My roots were so shallow I fell down.  Now I have no roots.

 

i'se waiting to read your novel miss kulay , is gonna be awesome.

Mistara

can word documents be edited on an ipad if have the keyboard blue tooth?

is ghee butter fattening?

LeatherGryphon

DanaTA said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I use a TracFone very  basic phone.  Just a tiny Samsung flip open phone that has a usless camera and impossible to use tiny screen that jokingly says it supports a web browser. 

Samsung Alias 2? ...

No, it seems to be a Samsung model 5GH-T245G

TSasha Smith

MistyMist said:

can word documents be edited on an ipad if have the keyboard blue tooth?

is ghee butter fattening?

It should.  I am able to work on word documents on my android with my Bluetooth keyboard

TSasha Smith

Where is my ride?

Mistara

no use cant remember astoria or greenpoint.  called my cousin to ask if she has pictures.

i remember the trains vaguely, cuz they were reddish. 

ate all me spinach, so now can eat desert, butter pecan ice cream guilt-free

 

sorta remember the train stations.  people pushed. and they huddled cuz they knew exactly where the train doors open

 

red trains were the old diesel trains to long island, electrified tracks stopped, the trains switched to diesel power

cant find pictures. they stopped running them 80s or 90s

kyoto kid

LeatherGryphon said:

I use a TracFone very  basic phone.  Just a tiny Samsung flip open phone that has a useless camera and impossible to use tiny screen that jokingly says it supports a web browser.  That's OK.  I'm happy with it.  I rarely ever use it.  No one ever calls me on it.   I don't text.  I carry it with me when outside and I don't even have connectivity in my house.  I use it for portability and "emergencies" only, and I just, you know, "talk" on the phone if I do use it.  How quaint.

However, I've gotten an e-mail and a couple of pop up messages (on that tiny useless screen) saying that my G2 phone will soon become obsolete as G2 service is being phased out by the carriers, and that I should take advantage of TracFone's offer for a phone upgrade.  I thought about that for a couple of weeks and tried, without success, to call the number they suggested in the pop-up and in the e-mail.  So I reverted to browsing.  I was not impressed with the stability of TracFone's website either.  After several days and many attempts I finally was able to make contact through their website and navigate the upgrade offer, select a phone, and purchase it for $9.99 instead of $29.99 (they gave me a $20 discount for my old phone which apparently I don't have to return because it is obsolete).  They said my paid days and accumulated minutes (about 2000) will carry over to my new phone.  I hope so.

But the point of this useless post is that apparently I have now joined the relatively modern world and will have a phone that is now too big to just drop in my pocket along with my keys.  It is a 3.8 inch, LG running Android 4.4 and using 3G service.  But I will now be able to take 3Mpixel photos of my food and myself and my forearm and other useless crap, and squint at tiny characters on the screen and worry about viruses on my phone just like everybody else.  Yea!   But hopefully, I can continue to buy just 90 days w/60 minutes for $21.93 every three months (~ $7.30/month) which is very easy on my budget.

I could now buy a "Selfie Stick" to antagonize people around me but I've found that my old wooden cane is more effective at poking and proding.  And with a phone mount screwed near the end could be very stylish.

..yeah I still have my old Go Phone (makes a decent alarm clock and pocket watch).  Even with the 15$ card, I never went through all my minutes (the closest ever did was when I was setting up my Social Security claim, mostly by being put on hold) and usually still had between 5 to 7$ left at the end of each month (no rollover). Ended up on a family plan with the people I share the house with and only have to pay 10$ a month. Got a nice Android 4G phone out of the deal with a decent camera (the pics of the DeSoto and the Street that I posted here were taken with it).  I still don't get a lot of calls, especially since I cut back on my furtive attempts of sending out resumes to places that won't bother hiring an old goat like me, and usually end up using it to check emails, sports scores, news, the weather, and even on ocasion, the forums here when I'm away from home.

kyoto kid

Kulay Wolf said:

Tjohn said:

AnotherUserName said:

Tjohn said:

I still live on the farm I grew up on. The land has been in the family for over 100 years.

This is awsome!

Thanks. My roots run deep. 

My roots were so shallow I fell down.  Now I have no roots.

...no roots left, but after living out here in the Pacific Northwet for over three and a half decades, I now have webbing between the toes.

LeatherGryphon

Well, I realize 3G isn't the latest and greatest pie in the shop but since I have to upgrade anyway, I figure I can't go wrong for $9.99.  If I end up liking this type of phone I may consider something better but monthly cost is a major factor for me.

kyoto kid

MistyMist said:

no use cant remember astoria or greenpoint.  called my cousin to ask if she has pictures.

i remember the trains vaguely, cuz they were reddish. 

ate all me spinach, so now can eat desert, butter pecan ice cream guilt-free

 

sorta remember the train stations.  people pushed. and they huddled cuz they knew exactly where the train doors open

 

red trains were the old diesel trains to long island, electrified tracks stopped, the trains switched to diesel power

cant find pictures. they stopped running them 80s or 90s

...I wonder how many pigeons got fried landing on the exposed third rails?

Richard Haseltine

kyoto kid said:

MistyMist said:

no use cant remember astoria or greenpoint.  called my cousin to ask if she has pictures.

i remember the trains vaguely, cuz they were reddish. 

ate all me spinach, so now can eat desert, butter pecan ice cream guilt-free

 

sorta remember the train stations.  people pushed. and they huddled cuz they knew exactly where the train doors open

 

red trains were the old diesel trains to long island, electrified tracks stopped, the trains switched to diesel power

cant find pictures. they stopped running them 80s or 90s

...I wonder how many pigeons got fried landing on the exposed third rails?

Probably not many since they wouldn't be able to touch anything else much at the same time - no circuit to earth, no frying.