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      10-27-2021, 10:48 AM   #3763
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I remember. Seatbelts were those things you stuffed down between the seat cushion and the backrest cushion. Thank God my folks were good drivers. My Dad started driving in his early teens while working as a yard jockey for a trucking company. Then he drove trucks for decades. When he died at 79, he had one ticket on his record, and that was for parking facing the wrong way on a street.
Mom and dad traded in their '49 Ford for a VW microbus in 1958. Neither vehicle had seatbelts. Dad had many speeding tickets in the Ford, but none in the '58 VW. I'm sure the lack of HP had a lot to do with that. Heh!

Any, despite dad's sometimes aggressive driving, we survived without any accidents. Still, long trips such as vacations were stressful. With the VW, dad practiced what I later called, "Energy management." After a long, slow climb up a hill he go like hell down the other side and pass the cars that passed him while going up the hill. On the level he'd draft semi's while watching oncoming traffic closely. When a gap in the traffic was coming our way, he was on the throttle well before the traffic gap was available, slowly accelerating. Just as the gap appeared he'd zoom out into the opposing lane and sort of slingshot past the semi truck. Just barely.
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....when your zipper is down and somebody points it out and you say, oh, thanks, but you are not embarrassed in the least.
I catch myself noticing, correcting and drawing attention to it myself. Hard to be embarrassed when you don't care.
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I have to do this with my lunch every day. I might be an aggressive driver.
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      10-27-2021, 02:29 PM   #3767
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When just can’t seem to get it up anymore. Thank god I’m not old yet!
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Never understood why that's supposed to be embarrassing or funny.
Even on sitcoms you see that being portrayed as funny… not sure why. Thoughts?
what about XYZ PDQ?
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I catch myself noticing, correcting and drawing attention to it myself. Hard to be embarrassed when you don't care.
I don't get what there is to be embarrassed about, 5 times out of 10 it's not like my pecker is sticking out.
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I miss push pops. You could still get them from the Schwans man about 10-15 years ago. Not sure if you still can…
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