I can't take it anymore. (library, quote)

[missik999]

On C-D, one member has typed "amendities" at least a dozen times.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by tulani

I'm in my 50s and probably should know all that. I don't drive and that probably explains a lot of my cluelessness.
I use to pump gas for my mom, and I love the smell of gas, but that is my full extent of putting any kind of liquid into a car, and my only knowledge of gas stations.
I watch NASCAR and still could not tell you one car maker from another. When someone asks me, "What kind of car was it?", I usually tell them what color it was because I seriously have no clue. I don't look at things like that.

I fully admit that there are two things in life (probably are more, but I haven't found them yet) that I am totally clueless about and I have no desire to acquire the knowledge: vehicles and politics.

Cute story about the SO.

I do drive, but I'm also clueless about cars. Most of them look the same to me. People will say, "Hey, is so-and-so home, did you see his car in front of his house?" And I'm thinking "How am I supposed to remember what so-and-so's car looks like?" I try to remember car colors, too, but I'm better off learning what a person's license plate is. Then I know it's their car for sure.

Some people DO look at cars. My friend's son was only a kid and he remembered everyone's cars, and I saw a TV show on Investigation Discovery where the guy who was kidnapping young boys was caught because a kid who was fascinated with vehicles happened to remember seeing a white truck on a certain street at a certain time of day.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Sudcaro

I didn't know Esso actually meant something!
By the way, it may be Exxon here in the US, but in some other countries it's still Esso.

Didn't know that!

I also remember Sinclair gas stations with the plastic dinosaur.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Didn't know that!

I also remember Sinclair gas stations with the plastic dinosaur.

We would see a lot of ENCO stations in the southwest.

[ChrisC]

If our spelling system didn't rely so much on rote memorization, it wouldn't be a problem, now would it.

[Copanut]

I had forgotten about Esso.


vintage_ads: Esso: "Put a Tiger in Your Tank"


One of my college frat buddies was a son of one of the big wigs there, took him 6 years to graduate, but amazingly he got a great job.

[Green Irish Eyes]

Saw this sign outside a convenience store on my way to vote today:

"We now accept debt cards."

It made me chuckle, type notwithstanding .....

[Copanut]

A sign at a local supermarket:

Some people have a BS degree and some have a PHD, but ALOT of them don't have jobs.


I swear, ALOT is driving me nutz, uh, nuts. And I see it alot.

[Neditate]

Originally Posted by Copanut

I swear, ALOT is driving me nutz, uh, nuts. And I see it alot.

Same here. Every day, on every forum, in emails from educated people. I don't get it...

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by Neditate

Same here. Every day, on every forum, in emails from educated people. I don't get it...

And the sad part is that eventually it will be considered standard.