Am I getting old.....or what?

**Chucaro** · 22nd May 2013, 12:56 PM

This thread looks like that it is for the "white brigade"

We should start every reply like this: "When I was a boy.........."

................yes, there were good times back then

But I can telling you that it is fun to see our grand children grow up and develop new skills.
I guess that it is up to us now to tech them some off the old tricks that we learned from our grand parents.

**trog** · 22nd May 2013, 01:13 PM

Well i am a happy little lud ! No smart phone , interest in computers other than AULRO and gmail and prefer a paper road map. My only concession is the Ipod as I love my music library.

**jx2mad** · 22nd May 2013, 02:12 PM

Hi Allan. Remember the school train. Used to bring the kids from way down the coast up to Coff's and return in the pm. And what about the tuck shop. Baked all its own goodies on site and the aroma wafted up through the class rooms. Headmaster Mr Silk. Jim

**vnx205** · 22nd May 2013, 02:40 PM

Hi Jim
Until the year before I started High School, the train was a school special drawn by a small steam engine. It was affectionately known as "Miz", short for "Misery".

I was always disappointed that i didn't get the travel to school on that one. The year I started High School, they retired that train and just tacked a few carriages on the back of whatever train was on the line at the appropriate time. For quite a while it was the North Coast Mail Train, but there was a period of time when it was a goods train. That would not normally be too bad, but on occasions the goods train was carrying blood and bone fertiliser or something equally aromatic.

So do you remember Miss Casey, the Latin teacher; "Botch" England; or any others?

Were you aware of the fact that Senator Bob Brown was a year ahead of us at Coff's?
Allan

**DeeJay** · 22nd May 2013, 02:48 PM

You two should tweet or Facebook each other !!

**Chucaro** · 22nd May 2013, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by DeeJay

You two should tweet or Facebook each other !!

I think that this a very nice experience for them, good on you young boys. keep chating that I am enjoying it.
My old school mates are very far away, you are lucky

**Blknight.aus** · 22nd May 2013, 05:58 PM

cmon guys stop it....

we're not allowed our phones past a certain point on the line.

a job wasnt getting done because the gauges were not in the right scale. upon telling them the formula for the conversion I then had to show them through long devision to complete the conversion because we cant have electronics past the line...

**Chucaro** · 22nd May 2013, 06:10 PM

Just wonder how many of the young generation know how to use one of these ?

**jx2mad** · 22nd May 2013, 06:31 PM

Miss Casey the Latin teacher. What about Miss Norris the girl's pe teacher who always wore a mini skirt. Then there was Mr Bonnell who ran the Cadets. Jim

**UncleHo** · 22nd May 2013, 06:41 PM

Yup! I grew up in that era too,69 now,mental arithmetic,sounding out letters in grades 1 & 2,learning parsing and the use of punctuation,and feeling the cane when I misbehaved,but it sure helped when I went to High School,and when job hunting as well as being well groomed for interveiws.

cheers

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