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flashback
when an earlier moment is portrayed in a story
or when a past experience is remembered.
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Fortunately, or unfortunately, I am old enough to remember
the manual telephone exchange at our local post office
which my grandmother owned.
These push button phones are now so old and clunky
and only good for one thing….making phone calls.
Comparatively large my current phone...
…can do so much more than phones of yesteryear
and has a whopping 128 GB of storage.
Compare this with the 80 MB of storage
on our first computer.
My Father always talked about riding a horse to school.
From his first car, which needed greasing
every time a long trip was planned…
WoollyMuses 
I remember phones with push buttons and even with dials. My dad, who grew up in the Finnish countryside, used to tell us every time we moaned about the cold, how he had to ski 10 km to school and back. Different times 😂.
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Our Dad’s sound a bit alike…only Dad would refer to riding a horse to school. The first phone I remember was something along the lines of this antique;
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/wall-decorations/wall-mounted-sculptures/antique-western-electric-n317cg-hand-crank-oak-case-wall-clock-bell-rings/id-f_22110702/?¤cy=aud&utm_content=condensed&gclid=CjwKCAjwrPCGBhALEiwAUl9X09lLZGwO0IqWiBEsr_tuzpqfRc7yldAIBFi1iKBMDbudlAgQUDBHQRoC7g0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
My maternal grandmother owned the local telephone exchange and se would have to connect callers with those being called.
And certainly…different times. My first wool classing job I was paid $19.00 per day…$6.50 MORE than the unskilled labour in a wool shed. I remember saying that 5 years of wool-classing $$$$ and I could retire. Now 200 somethings are earning 10 times that salary per day…..AND expecting a bonus for simply doing their job.
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Never mind push button phones – I remember when they had dials!
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Love your flashback photos Woolly. Imagine having to ride a horse to school! One thing though .. why would you have to grease the car before long trips? What’s being greased?
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As oil lubricates then engine, so grease lubricates external joints/bearings…without grease joints could overheat and seize up. The the trip the more likely this would occur if not greased prior to the trip. Grease was squeezed into a nipple on the joint/bearing to keep it cool, flexible, using a grease gun. Sealed bearings came along in the late 50s or 60s, which meant any joint or bearing which required lubricant were made, lubricant added and covered by a rubber (I think) seal. Lastly SandyL, if I am off the mark please remember that I am not a mechanic and never was all that interested in how/why a car works…just that it does.
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Thanks for explaining Woolly. Even if you’re off the mark, I wouldn’t know. I’ve just never heard of anyone greasing a car. Hence the term ‘grease monkey’ for mechanics I guess.
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I think we have just aged ourselves SandyL! 🙂
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