My parents did teach me how to play gin rummy and, in fact, within a year, I could routinely beat both of them. I got kind of cocky with that game, figuring I could beat anyone. When I got married, I taught my wife how to play. Within a few months, she could routinely beat me.
Anyway, when the You-Know-What hits the fan and citizens have to rely on our practical survival skills, I’m going to be a little more nervous than many of my peers. Still, If the electricity isn’t working, we can still play gin rummy by candle light.
As an aside, just about every time I take a coffee break on my back porch, I see herds of deer in my backyard and the neighbors yard. The deer are everywhere.
This observation makes me think far fewer teenagers and adults are hunting deer than 30 or 40 years ago - probably because the sport is expensive and this is a way to save money in times of ever-worsening inflation.
It has occurred to me that if times ever get really bad and we need to hunt for food, I’m - again - going to be in trouble. Even if I could kill a deer, I wouldn’t know how to clean it and get the meat to cook.
Just keep in mind if things really do get bad, the deer will be shot out in a very short time. Around 1880 in the Leadville, CO silver boom, all the deer were shot out in the Arkansas river valley. Now the last time I was in Buena Vista the deer were out in the flats and in Salida were a nuisance.
If you're having a deer problem you should probably check out what happened when they reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone. That sorted their deer/elk overgrazing problem out and improved things for wildlife no end. OK a few teenagers might disappear in your neighbourhood but that can only be a good thing if it stops Bambi snacking on your begonias. ;o)
I also no longer know how to solve an algebraic equation. However, this lack of skill deserves an asterisk because I used to know how to do this with no problem (no pun intended).
Mrs. Morgan, my high school math teacher for four years, was patient enough with me as a student that I could solve those equations well enough to make an A in her class - or at least a good, respectable B.
But solving algebraic equations is one of those skills you have to practice regularly to maintain. It turns out that when I graduated from CHHS, I didn’t keep up to date with my algebra skills.
In the last 40 years I will admit there’s been two or three times when I was grappling with some research project in journalism and thought to myself, “I need to use algebra here” … but I couldn’t remember how to do it.
Maybe it’s like riding a bike. I could go back to algebra class for a week or two and it would all come back to me. I guess I’ll find out because my daughter is in 7th grade and, in two years, is going to be taking algebra and asking Dad for help.
If students still use text books, I can brush up. If they don’t, I’m going to use the old stand-by: “Let your mom help you with this homework.”
Bill, make a day+1night trip to Chattanooga w/your lovely wife. Budget 4 hours to shop for books, CDs, movies at McKays. OMG. You will find lots of indispensable things from Naturopathic medical books (mentioned in other comments to your other articles) to old Algebra textbooks to $1 DVDs you will enjoy rewatching.
McKays is in Memphis, Nashville and Chat.
A must for budget-minded book lovers.
I take lists, I recycle there for credit, the place is a huge treasure chest.
I use algebra every single night at work, often in my head bc I see the equations so often I remember them but to calculate a dose of a medication you have two “known” qty (eg acetaminophen is 160mg per 5ml) and I want to know how many ml to give a kid who needs 75mg. 160/5 =75/x ye olde cross multiply and devide scheme gets me 160x = 375 (75x5). divide both by 160 and you get x = 2.34375 or in simple (measurable) terms 2.3mL which is actually 73.6mg or you could round up to 2.4 mL which would be 76.8mg depending on where the kid is weight wise. See? Easy peasy. All night every night man. And calculating compounds is even funner. 😉. My former math teachers would be filled with joy with the vast amount of algebra I use in my every day life.
If you have ever had to change a recipe to a smaller or larger batch you are using algebra to do it as well. (Unless you just cheat and do either half or double where you just divide or multiply by 2 but it’s *still* simple algebra. You’re just not “showing your work” which used to be verboten (and make me mad a lot since I was able to do the math without showing my work).
Great list. And until you’ve driven a three speed on the column you haven’t really driven a manual transmission. That’s what I learned on and still love the feel of driving a stick.
I did learn column shifting in my high school driving class. My car with the stick shift had it on the floor. Shifting that way lets you get your whole body into the gear change. I got so enthusiastic that sometimes I forgot I had only 5 forward gears and tried for a sixth. Luckily reverse was on the other side, so all I did was go out and in #5.
First car I drove back in the 60's was a falcon with "3 on the tree"!
Wife and I had motorcycles for years but 3 years ago with me in my late 60's , sold them and bought a nice used 2006 Miata 6 speed. We live in the north east so only drive it in fair weather. Great car to go get groceries and stop for lunch! Sadly with the first snow this we got this week it is put away for the winter. Back to the Outback automatic.
At the dealer showroom, I had my husband attempt to get behind the wheel. His head was above the convertible windshield.
I laughed so hard I almost peed. It was like the smalltown July4 from my childhood with the Shriners in mini motorcars doing precision formations down the parade route.
We bought another F-150 and I am haunted by unrequited love.
Wife is under 5' and she loves to drive standard so along with that and me about 5'8" it is a perfect little red miata for us. A late life crisis car. I had a 64 rambler american in the 70's and was looking for one of them for a hobby car. Ebay ones were crazy prices like a cult wanted them. We were talking one day and decided to look for something newer and up popped the Miata on her marketplace. It was love at first sight for us!
Learned to drive in my Mom's '65 Corvair convert. What grand memories. Glad y'all got that touring auto, a gem for experiencing the splendors of US byways.
Never had an on the column stick. Unless, you want to count the weird fake car things in driver's ed, where you watched a movie of driving and had to "drive" your "car" along with the movie. What a weird way to learn to drive!!! ANYway, I have loved every 4, or 5, on the floor that I have ever had. Especially, my 383 magnum Satellite! 🥰🤗😊
When I was 18 years old I bought a 1970 Roadrunner and immediately put in a Hurst straight shifter and competitionn clutch. Spent the next two years running the 1/4mile at Atco Dragway in Atco, NJ. That 383, 4-speed was so much fun to drive. They’re worth over $100,000 now! Oh how I wish I had kept it when I became a mommy and got a more sensible car.
I would have loved to do what you did with your car! Sounds like loads of fun.
Mine was a 1971 Satellite Sebring Plus, with a Roadrunner package. It had the Hurst pistol grip shifter. 💓 It was a custom order car. I got it used in '76. I loved that car so much. I just sold it in '21. It hadn't run for many years and I didn't have the money to have it fixed. It broke my heart. The guy that bought it was going to use the drive train in a '71 Charger.
I once had a 3-speed bike, which I could work. I never had a 10-speed though. Those were once very popular. (My 3-speed got stolen off the front porch when I was in 8th grade). It came in handy because Troy has lots of hills and you needed that low gear to get up all the hills.
My family lived on Long Island, before innocence lost and we didn't lock doors or worry much. Dad was (about 1970) mugged in NYC in an elevator at the Time-Life bldg. Here is the grandeur of the place I recall seeing as a child. Cafe duMonde and the Snake Stair still visit my dreams.
When I came to the US for my Ph.D. in physics, I missed the home baking, my mom made this German style cake base and put canned peaches on it and glazed it with some chopped almonds on it. Yummy! And as a young boy I was always in the kitchen observing how to cook and bake. But when I called her long distance and asked her for our home recipe for the cake base, she replied ‘Stephan, you can’t bake!’ Whereas I replied (having gotten my Master’s already) ‘mom, I am a physicist, I can do anything!’ She didn’t like that.
The only thing I didn’t master is playing piano well. I read that you have to develop the kinetic skills before the age of 11 or so, that is when the brain stops to quickly form new synapses. And I was too lazy to practice at that age.
Supposedly, you can regain this brain activity if you crawl on your belly on the floor like a baby or toddler. This puts you back into that infant development stage and then you can learn these skills again.
I visited a kinesiologist here in Reno who worked with the athletes from UNR. He had a device where you would lay on with your body face down and it had movable extensions for arm and legs, where the athletes would mimic the crawling of an infant and that put their brain back into this development phase and would improve their athletic learning ability!
My nephew had to do something very similar since he didn’t develop the micro-motoric for handwriting. He also had to do exercises like jumping jack and this helped him to learn how to write.
Super interesting but I didn’t practice piano with this kinesiology technique to improve my piano playing skills…
That is interesting. Once upon a time, many more people learned how to play the piano. I never even tried because I knew I had a terrible singing voice and figured why learn to play the piano if you can't sing along to your songs? That's the same excuse I use for never learning how to play the guitar.
I learned how to play bridge in a battalion landing team off the coast of Vietnam. We had a guy who taught us. We called him pappy because he was so much older than we were. He was 26, a draftee who volunteered. Haven't played bridge since.
Beyond that my list of what I can't do or don't know is enough to fill that warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark or whichever movie that was in.
Never played bridge but lots of other games. Rummy, canasta, Pitch, poker, hearts, spades, but my favorite was cribbage. Wife and I play rummy sometimes but she never took to cribbage. Still love her with that flaw!
At one time I knew how to play Spades and Hearts, but I didn't play enough and now I've forgotten. My next List Column might be on the things I DID learn to do that many of my peers couldn't do. For example, I love the game of chess and very few of my classmates learned how to play.
I once got some stilts for Christmas and became a pro at walking on stilts. At one time, I was the worst person in my class at jumping rope. For some reason this bothered me and I got a rope and practiced all the time. In a few months, I could jump rope as fast as a welterweight boxer!
We call over-easy dippy eggs. Peel the top off of the yolk and dip half a piece of toast in it until the liquid is used up. Then take the leftover egg white/hard-cooked yolk and put it on the other half piece of toast to eat.
I can do a lot of those things, not all, but I sympathize about the standard shift learning experience. My (now ex-) husband tried to teach me, and he yelled so much I had to ask another friend to teach me. The only good thing that came out of that first attempt was the memory of him yelling "your other left! Your other left".
Good grief, man! You ballroom danced 🕺 to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love!?" You're a DANCING MACHINE! I can imagine doing the Trump Dance to that song, but the rhythm is pretty irregular, and very funky. You're my new hero! 👏
Fun read - and a great point; I wouldn't be ashamed by most of those - but the admission of having a Citation in the family ... a mistake I made when getting a 'second car' for our family. It was an experience I wish on my list of things I never learned to do. The day the lease expired, I handed back the keys and have not been in or near one of this since. I believe they've all gone, correctly, to the metal masher that turns them into tin cans ... since that is their DNA ....
You won't be happy. I've long thought, so long as Durham-Humphrey persist, a prescription should be needed to buy an automatic transmission. It's a medical device.
Automatics are more expensive, less efficient, less reliable, and facilitate incompetent driving.
I like this comment. I am now in the obsolete category for almost everything. I recently rented a new Ford escape, my comment when I returned the car to the dealer- the tech nerds are out of control. The electronics said one tire was low, as far as I could determine the tire pressure was fine. And I only got the cruise control to work one time. What happens if you lose the fob thing for starting the car? I didn't have an extra, like the key I keep in my wallet.
I 'vote' bacon grease for fried!! (The skirt of a fried egg is best achieved w/grease) and 'not burning' butter for scrambled. The French seem to me to undercook scrambled eggs. Shiny is okay, wet is gross. Can we agree?
LOL... it was interesting reading your list! At almost 20 years your senior, I can do all but 2 on your list, but my list is more extensive, plus I can't ride a bike !! I tried, but ... am I the only American who can't?
Congrats for the list and the fact you are so human. No one likes those who think they can do everything and everyone loves a trier. Humble men are also very popular
My wife used a zero turn when she worked at a campground for the DEC.
I can move it at low speed if I half too but don't try to mow.. We got it because she wanted to mow but hated my old rider. So after 4 years I still have to admit that.
I have a backhoe loader all kinds of tools and work on my own vehicles but let her have her day.
If she tries to pick on me I offer to let her run the backhoe! She declines!
She is a really great cook, so I stick to making the oatmeal every morning!
Used my neighbor's 0-turn a couple of weekends ago. Took some getting used to, but it turns out that they're a lot easier to control at speed than trying to go slow. If too fast, just go to a lower gear so you can keep the control handles further forward.
Our lawn isn't as smooth as most and when I was mowing it I tended to go about medium speed. Old age and getting bounced around don't agree with me. Wife flies on the zero turn, probably top speed so I just use the old one and do the rough areas slow! We are a great team at it!
You fit in with a lot of my friends! I’m the 77 yo retired nurse.. the only thing that I’ve not done yet is play bridge! At least you’re not afraid of changes.. lol! You’re pretty cool to post that list.. I never read a list like that before! Cool!
My parents did teach me how to play gin rummy and, in fact, within a year, I could routinely beat both of them. I got kind of cocky with that game, figuring I could beat anyone. When I got married, I taught my wife how to play. Within a few months, she could routinely beat me.
Anyway, when the You-Know-What hits the fan and citizens have to rely on our practical survival skills, I’m going to be a little more nervous than many of my peers. Still, If the electricity isn’t working, we can still play gin rummy by candle light.
As an aside, just about every time I take a coffee break on my back porch, I see herds of deer in my backyard and the neighbors yard. The deer are everywhere.
This observation makes me think far fewer teenagers and adults are hunting deer than 30 or 40 years ago - probably because the sport is expensive and this is a way to save money in times of ever-worsening inflation.
It has occurred to me that if times ever get really bad and we need to hunt for food, I’m - again - going to be in trouble. Even if I could kill a deer, I wouldn’t know how to clean it and get the meat to cook.
Just keep in mind if things really do get bad, the deer will be shot out in a very short time. Around 1880 in the Leadville, CO silver boom, all the deer were shot out in the Arkansas river valley. Now the last time I was in Buena Vista the deer were out in the flats and in Salida were a nuisance.
If you're having a deer problem you should probably check out what happened when they reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone. That sorted their deer/elk overgrazing problem out and improved things for wildlife no end. OK a few teenagers might disappear in your neighbourhood but that can only be a good thing if it stops Bambi snacking on your begonias. ;o)
https://youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q?si=foDtBqu-yEy5QxNH
{...I see herds of deer in my backyard and the neighbors yard. The deer are everywhere...}
They somehow seem to have inter-generational knowlegde of the fact that you are harmless; therefore all gather in your backyard !!! 🤣🤣🤣
Cutting Room Floor text ... Item No. 3 ....
I also no longer know how to solve an algebraic equation. However, this lack of skill deserves an asterisk because I used to know how to do this with no problem (no pun intended).
Mrs. Morgan, my high school math teacher for four years, was patient enough with me as a student that I could solve those equations well enough to make an A in her class - or at least a good, respectable B.
But solving algebraic equations is one of those skills you have to practice regularly to maintain. It turns out that when I graduated from CHHS, I didn’t keep up to date with my algebra skills.
In the last 40 years I will admit there’s been two or three times when I was grappling with some research project in journalism and thought to myself, “I need to use algebra here” … but I couldn’t remember how to do it.
Maybe it’s like riding a bike. I could go back to algebra class for a week or two and it would all come back to me. I guess I’ll find out because my daughter is in 7th grade and, in two years, is going to be taking algebra and asking Dad for help.
If students still use text books, I can brush up. If they don’t, I’m going to use the old stand-by: “Let your mom help you with this homework.”
Bill, make a day+1night trip to Chattanooga w/your lovely wife. Budget 4 hours to shop for books, CDs, movies at McKays. OMG. You will find lots of indispensable things from Naturopathic medical books (mentioned in other comments to your other articles) to old Algebra textbooks to $1 DVDs you will enjoy rewatching.
McKays is in Memphis, Nashville and Chat.
A must for budget-minded book lovers.
I take lists, I recycle there for credit, the place is a huge treasure chest.
I use algebra every single night at work, often in my head bc I see the equations so often I remember them but to calculate a dose of a medication you have two “known” qty (eg acetaminophen is 160mg per 5ml) and I want to know how many ml to give a kid who needs 75mg. 160/5 =75/x ye olde cross multiply and devide scheme gets me 160x = 375 (75x5). divide both by 160 and you get x = 2.34375 or in simple (measurable) terms 2.3mL which is actually 73.6mg or you could round up to 2.4 mL which would be 76.8mg depending on where the kid is weight wise. See? Easy peasy. All night every night man. And calculating compounds is even funner. 😉. My former math teachers would be filled with joy with the vast amount of algebra I use in my every day life.
If you have ever had to change a recipe to a smaller or larger batch you are using algebra to do it as well. (Unless you just cheat and do either half or double where you just divide or multiply by 2 but it’s *still* simple algebra. You’re just not “showing your work” which used to be verboten (and make me mad a lot since I was able to do the math without showing my work).
There have been probably many times where I think, I could use algebra here and quickly calculate the answer I'm looking for. Geometry too!
Great list. And until you’ve driven a three speed on the column you haven’t really driven a manual transmission. That’s what I learned on and still love the feel of driving a stick.
I did learn column shifting in my high school driving class. My car with the stick shift had it on the floor. Shifting that way lets you get your whole body into the gear change. I got so enthusiastic that sometimes I forgot I had only 5 forward gears and tried for a sixth. Luckily reverse was on the other side, so all I did was go out and in #5.
First car I drove back in the 60's was a falcon with "3 on the tree"!
Wife and I had motorcycles for years but 3 years ago with me in my late 60's , sold them and bought a nice used 2006 Miata 6 speed. We live in the north east so only drive it in fair weather. Great car to go get groceries and stop for lunch! Sadly with the first snow this we got this week it is put away for the winter. Back to the Outback automatic.
I almost bought a Miata. Love love love!
At the dealer showroom, I had my husband attempt to get behind the wheel. His head was above the convertible windshield.
I laughed so hard I almost peed. It was like the smalltown July4 from my childhood with the Shriners in mini motorcars doing precision formations down the parade route.
We bought another F-150 and I am haunted by unrequited love.
Wife is under 5' and she loves to drive standard so along with that and me about 5'8" it is a perfect little red miata for us. A late life crisis car. I had a 64 rambler american in the 70's and was looking for one of them for a hobby car. Ebay ones were crazy prices like a cult wanted them. We were talking one day and decided to look for something newer and up popped the Miata on her marketplace. It was love at first sight for us!
Learned to drive in my Mom's '65 Corvair convert. What grand memories. Glad y'all got that touring auto, a gem for experiencing the splendors of US byways.
William, your post made me think of something else I never learned to do. I also never learned how to ride a motorcycle.
I was over 10 before I learned to ride a bike . Didn't have one to learn on. I stayed overnight at a cousins and learned there.
Never had an on the column stick. Unless, you want to count the weird fake car things in driver's ed, where you watched a movie of driving and had to "drive" your "car" along with the movie. What a weird way to learn to drive!!! ANYway, I have loved every 4, or 5, on the floor that I have ever had. Especially, my 383 magnum Satellite! 🥰🤗😊
When I was 18 years old I bought a 1970 Roadrunner and immediately put in a Hurst straight shifter and competitionn clutch. Spent the next two years running the 1/4mile at Atco Dragway in Atco, NJ. That 383, 4-speed was so much fun to drive. They’re worth over $100,000 now! Oh how I wish I had kept it when I became a mommy and got a more sensible car.
I would have loved to do what you did with your car! Sounds like loads of fun.
Mine was a 1971 Satellite Sebring Plus, with a Roadrunner package. It had the Hurst pistol grip shifter. 💓 It was a custom order car. I got it used in '76. I loved that car so much. I just sold it in '21. It hadn't run for many years and I didn't have the money to have it fixed. It broke my heart. The guy that bought it was going to use the drive train in a '71 Charger.
I once had a 3-speed bike, which I could work. I never had a 10-speed though. Those were once very popular. (My 3-speed got stolen off the front porch when I was in 8th grade). It came in handy because Troy has lots of hills and you needed that low gear to get up all the hills.
Were you robbed in Troy?
My family lived on Long Island, before innocence lost and we didn't lock doors or worry much. Dad was (about 1970) mugged in NYC in an elevator at the Time-Life bldg. Here is the grandeur of the place I recall seeing as a child. Cafe duMonde and the Snake Stair still visit my dreams.
https://time.com/30406/time-life-building-60s-mad-men/
When I came to the US for my Ph.D. in physics, I missed the home baking, my mom made this German style cake base and put canned peaches on it and glazed it with some chopped almonds on it. Yummy! And as a young boy I was always in the kitchen observing how to cook and bake. But when I called her long distance and asked her for our home recipe for the cake base, she replied ‘Stephan, you can’t bake!’ Whereas I replied (having gotten my Master’s already) ‘mom, I am a physicist, I can do anything!’ She didn’t like that.
The only thing I didn’t master is playing piano well. I read that you have to develop the kinetic skills before the age of 11 or so, that is when the brain stops to quickly form new synapses. And I was too lazy to practice at that age.
Supposedly, you can regain this brain activity if you crawl on your belly on the floor like a baby or toddler. This puts you back into that infant development stage and then you can learn these skills again.
I visited a kinesiologist here in Reno who worked with the athletes from UNR. He had a device where you would lay on with your body face down and it had movable extensions for arm and legs, where the athletes would mimic the crawling of an infant and that put their brain back into this development phase and would improve their athletic learning ability!
My nephew had to do something very similar since he didn’t develop the micro-motoric for handwriting. He also had to do exercises like jumping jack and this helped him to learn how to write.
Super interesting but I didn’t practice piano with this kinesiology technique to improve my piano playing skills…
That is interesting. Once upon a time, many more people learned how to play the piano. I never even tried because I knew I had a terrible singing voice and figured why learn to play the piano if you can't sing along to your songs? That's the same excuse I use for never learning how to play the guitar.
Your artistic gift is your flair with words.
Kazoo with me?!
I learned how to play bridge in a battalion landing team off the coast of Vietnam. We had a guy who taught us. We called him pappy because he was so much older than we were. He was 26, a draftee who volunteered. Haven't played bridge since.
Beyond that my list of what I can't do or don't know is enough to fill that warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark or whichever movie that was in.
Never played bridge but lots of other games. Rummy, canasta, Pitch, poker, hearts, spades, but my favorite was cribbage. Wife and I play rummy sometimes but she never took to cribbage. Still love her with that flaw!
all good games.
At one time I knew how to play Spades and Hearts, but I didn't play enough and now I've forgotten. My next List Column might be on the things I DID learn to do that many of my peers couldn't do. For example, I love the game of chess and very few of my classmates learned how to play.
I once got some stilts for Christmas and became a pro at walking on stilts. At one time, I was the worst person in my class at jumping rope. For some reason this bothered me and I got a rope and practiced all the time. In a few months, I could jump rope as fast as a welterweight boxer!
Good column idea!!
Stilts? Wow!!
We call over-easy dippy eggs. Peel the top off of the yolk and dip half a piece of toast in it until the liquid is used up. Then take the leftover egg white/hard-cooked yolk and put it on the other half piece of toast to eat.
Exactly how we always ate our “dippy eggs” as kids.
What a lovely list. Especially the memories.
I can do a lot of those things, not all, but I sympathize about the standard shift learning experience. My (now ex-) husband tried to teach me, and he yelled so much I had to ask another friend to teach me. The only good thing that came out of that first attempt was the memory of him yelling "your other left! Your other left".
Good grief, man! You ballroom danced 🕺 to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love!?" You're a DANCING MACHINE! I can imagine doing the Trump Dance to that song, but the rhythm is pretty irregular, and very funky. You're my new hero! 👏
Fun read - and a great point; I wouldn't be ashamed by most of those - but the admission of having a Citation in the family ... a mistake I made when getting a 'second car' for our family. It was an experience I wish on my list of things I never learned to do. The day the lease expired, I handed back the keys and have not been in or near one of this since. I believe they've all gone, correctly, to the metal masher that turns them into tin cans ... since that is their DNA ....
That car was a lemon. Rush had constant issues with it. He called it the "Chevy Frustration."
You won't be happy. I've long thought, so long as Durham-Humphrey persist, a prescription should be needed to buy an automatic transmission. It's a medical device.
Automatics are more expensive, less efficient, less reliable, and facilitate incompetent driving.
I like this comment. I am now in the obsolete category for almost everything. I recently rented a new Ford escape, my comment when I returned the car to the dealer- the tech nerds are out of control. The electronics said one tire was low, as far as I could determine the tire pressure was fine. And I only got the cruise control to work one time. What happens if you lose the fob thing for starting the car? I didn't have an extra, like the key I keep in my wallet.
But how'm I supposed to text while driving?
-said no one same, ever.
It's really not that hard. 🙄😉
LOL
Genuinely shouted with laughter. Thank you so much for this omg.
FYI. Eggs fry best in butter. Heat the butter on medium high then crack the eggs and drop them in. After a minute turn for over easy
Lots of butter!!
I 'vote' bacon grease for fried!! (The skirt of a fried egg is best achieved w/grease) and 'not burning' butter for scrambled. The French seem to me to undercook scrambled eggs. Shiny is okay, wet is gross. Can we agree?
Thanks, Donna!
LOL... it was interesting reading your list! At almost 20 years your senior, I can do all but 2 on your list, but my list is more extensive, plus I can't ride a bike !! I tried, but ... am I the only American who can't?
Congrats for the list and the fact you are so human. No one likes those who think they can do everything and everyone loves a trier. Humble men are also very popular
My wife used a zero turn when she worked at a campground for the DEC.
I can move it at low speed if I half too but don't try to mow.. We got it because she wanted to mow but hated my old rider. So after 4 years I still have to admit that.
I have a backhoe loader all kinds of tools and work on my own vehicles but let her have her day.
If she tries to pick on me I offer to let her run the backhoe! She declines!
She is a really great cook, so I stick to making the oatmeal every morning!
Used my neighbor's 0-turn a couple of weekends ago. Took some getting used to, but it turns out that they're a lot easier to control at speed than trying to go slow. If too fast, just go to a lower gear so you can keep the control handles further forward.
Our lawn isn't as smooth as most and when I was mowing it I tended to go about medium speed. Old age and getting bounced around don't agree with me. Wife flies on the zero turn, probably top speed so I just use the old one and do the rough areas slow! We are a great team at it!
You fit in with a lot of my friends! I’m the 77 yo retired nurse.. the only thing that I’ve not done yet is play bridge! At least you’re not afraid of changes.. lol! You’re pretty cool to post that list.. I never read a list like that before! Cool!