"DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF"

Let me enlighten you kiddies ........... when I was a teenager.... let's say mid to late 50's, very early 60's ... just before I made the big leap to the Marines and ....... grew up real fast.......... I lived in a very small Kentucky town.... gas was selling for around .30 gal.... I worked in a grocery store baggin' groceries and also did a little caddying at the local golf course and I made probably $15 to $30 weekly and that was a lot for a kid back then.... I had an old '49 Ford Flathead, which I borrowed the money from my Dad to buy... I paid $250 for it..... (you do know what a flathead is don't you?)... I could fill the tank for $5.00 (which would last me a week), go to the drive-in (that's an outdoor movie) with my girlfriend for about another $2.00... buy all the popcorn, "juji fruits', Mary Janes and Cokes (was no Pepsi at that time) .... then go to the local car hop(that's an outdoor restaurant that you drive into and park, eat outside).... get a couple of cheeseburgers and fries and get in a fight with the guys from the other high school in the next town.... we did not have guns or knives and nobody got hurt real bad and if the cops came they just told us to cool it and the worst they would do was call our parents.... and at the end of the week I still had $20 or $30 in my pocket.....

You always hear about the "good ole days" well, they really were.... there was an innocence that existed that is no where to be found in today's world.............. I don't know if you guys will be able to refer to your youth as the "good ole days"... frankly I hope you can.... fond memories are something that sustains you as you age.... and of course reading the stuff you all write is also rather interesting.....

If you want to see a little of how it was... click this link for openers: http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

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Bill Marx, Sr.
"FREE STATE BAIL BONDS"
"FREE STATE INVESTIGATIONS"
DCJS: 99-176979
Cell: 434-294-0222

"Endeavor to Persevere" "Lone Watie"

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that , comes from bad judgment" "Will Rogers"

... and if you want more of the 50's here's another to check out: http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

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Bill Marx, Sr.
"FREE STATE BAIL BONDS"
"FREE STATE INVESTIGATIONS"
DCJS: 99-176979
Cell: 434-294-0222

"Endeavor to Persevere" "Lone Watie"

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that , comes from bad judgment" "Will Rogers"

God help us if we can refer to todays day and age as the "good ole days"
Can you imagine how bad it will have to be later for today to be considered good.
I'm at a loss of words just thinking about it. I just hope all turns out well for the youths sake.
Damn I'm talking like I'm over the hill with you guys.

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If the world didn't suck we would all fall off. (Luvonda)
Nobody has power over you that you do not allow them to have. (Scott)
Be careful of the seeds you plant because one day they will be harvested.

Dave
Private Investigator
Licensed by the NYS DOS Division of Licensing

I was born in the late 50's and remember when a couple of gas stations across from each other in my area had gas wars in the late 60's, early 70's with prices in the teens. Yep, I'm talking 14-18 cents a gallon. My brother used to borrow a quarter from me to get gas, and spending a dollar could get you around for a day or two. Now ten dollars will barely get you across town.

I used to have a big stack of 45's, and the adapter to play them on the "new" 33 record player. I also had some 78's that were mostly children's stories and songs from when I was a child. GEEZ, it is hard to consider how much has changed in my 50 years. I can't even imagine the advances in the next 50 years.

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Kathy Blackshear
Blackshear Investigations
Blackshear Bail Bonds
Sales Associate, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.
Walsenburg, CO

Proud Member of the AB Reject Club

Ok you ole' geezers.......... get your rockin' chairs and come on over to my house... we'll sit around the cement pond and drink prune juice and talk about what we did (or tried to do... ) in the backseat of the 60' chevy or in my case it was a '49 ford..... or how you used to slow dance at the "sock hops" and get so sweaty and turned on that your clothes were ringin' wet cause there was no air conditioning... yep......... anyone under the age of 45 has no.... I say, NO idea what those days were like............. well,

Since my last name is Marx.... when someone would ask me how to spell it... I would say... "M-A-R-X... just like Groucho.." and often times they look at me with a question on their face and say... "WHO?" cause they are too young to have a clue who Groucho Marx was... that really gets me thinking............................ but the thing that does bother me a bit is when you pay your bill in McDonalds or other restaurants and you try and give them change after they have rung up the bill... they have no clue how to count, add or subtract without putting it in the registers computer.... they just look at me with that dumb stare....

Well, that's all I have to say about that............

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Bill Marx, Sr.
"FREE STATE BAIL BONDS"
"FREE STATE INVESTIGATIONS"
DCJS: 99-176979
Cell: 434-294-0222

"Endeavor to Persevere" "Lone Watie"

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that , comes from bad judgment" "Will Rogers"

The first "adding machine" that I worked on was one where you pushed in the numbers and pulled a lever to enter them. I was working as a cashier in a drug store and that's how we added up our daily report. My first bookkeeping jobs were done manually in a ledger book, and bills were typed and sent out manually. My first computers that I worked on and bought didn't have hard drives. They had two floppy drives (5 1/4"). One was for the program, the other for storing data. To start them, you had to insert the DOS boot disk. The internet wasn't even a pipe dream.

I still count back change the old way, but I know what you mean, Bill. When I give a cashier the change, especially if it's like a dollar and change so that I can get a larger bill back rather than a bunch of ones, they look at me like "what is this?"

Yep, times have changed very quickly.

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Kathy Blackshear
Blackshear Investigations
Blackshear Bail Bonds
Sales Associate, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.
Walsenburg, CO

Proud Member of the AB Reject Club

The "change" thing is what gets me . . . I have not had anybody count my change back to me in forever.

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Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty, or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light, or look the world in the face .... Marcus Antonius

I AM Some Folks "KARMA" and A MODERATOR @ FRN

Heck...if it weren't for the pictures on the screen, most McD's employees wouldn't be able to perform their job.

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Thomas SnoWolf
FRN# 1999
GAPB 20120726
NSIS ST0707
http://www.rocksolidrg.com
"The hero is not the man that acts without fear,
He is the man that acts inspite of fear"

My first computer was an IBM with 250K... that's K not M..... RAM memory and no hard drive... the fist hard drive as I recall was 100Kand it cost over $3000..... Microsoft was selling for $2 a share and I didn't buy any cause I was more interested in booze, women and fast cars.... boy did I go wrong there............... (I always said: "I spent most of my money on women and beer.... the rest I just wasted.")

I have a good friend that bought 100 shares of Microsoft for $175.00 plus the brokerage fee... he still has all his stock... and he is in the Bahamas living on the beach........ he calls me now and then and complains that diesel fuel on his island is 8.00 gal. and he has a boat that burns 25 gal. an hour.......... poor baby.... but he says... "I sure like to fish so I just bite the bullet"........

BTW... the internet started out as a covert government pipeline that communicated between agencies to keep intel current... CIA,FBI... stuff like that..................... back in the early 50's... of course it didn't go public till a long time later.......... Just think... those agencies were selling on Ebay way back in the 50's..........

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Bill Marx, Sr.
"FREE STATE BAIL BONDS"
"FREE STATE INVESTIGATIONS"
DCJS: 99-176979
Cell: 434-294-0222

"Endeavor to Persevere" "Lone Watie"

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that , comes from bad judgment" "Will Rogers"

That goes for all fast food places.

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Steve Faircloth
A Way Out Bail Bonds
(220) 204-9733 Cell
NSIN# SF0105
LIC. #704058