Old Enough To Remember?

I remember when, you had to use hand signals as part of a driving test.
When you got the slipper or cane for being rude in class.
When we put buttons in the electric meter because we were short of money and the collector returned our rebate in buttons..great times. X
 
I went to a Catholic Elementary and High School. The Brother who was the principal of the High school had lost all of the fingers on his right hand except for his thumb. During events or other times he would want to shake your hand and he would reach out with his hand sans fingers to shake your hand. Talk about feeling uncomfortable. especially for a young kid.

In the Elementary school the nuns carried these wooden clickers that were used to get your attention and they had signals for various things like standing and sitting etc. These clickers also made a formidable weapon if they knocked you on top of the head with it.

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bdalameda said:
We had not only a milk delivery truck come to our house but there was also a Bakery truck that came through the neighborhood. As kids we called him the Donut Man as he would sell donuts to kids for a nickel, I can remember anxiously waiting for him on Saturdays.

I can remember so vividly opening the glass milk bottles. The bottles had a waxed cardboard plug in the top that you had to peel a tab up to pull it out.

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Glass milk bottles....that got recycled.
What a concept.
Now we throw millions of plastic milk and water bottles in the trash every day.
Such progress.
 
I remember going to church with my mom and seeing her rather embarrassed expression as we were entering the church when I pointed out that my dad's car was parked in front of the bar across the street!!
 
drbuzzard said:
did anyone mention those milk trucks that delivered most dairy products and eggs, we had twin pines in my area
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I got to be good friends with the neighborhood milk man, as I was the morning paper delivery boy. And no, the paper wasn't throw in your driveway back then. During Christmas I would have to make several return trips to the house to deposit the goodies left for me in the morning.

Image this, up at 4:00am fold and deliver the paper. Then shower and off to school. I don't see many of today's youth or adults choosing that path.
 
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