(October 30, 2018 at 8:57 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(October 30, 2018 at 7:13 pm)Fireball Wrote: I'm old enough to be yo daddy! I graduated HS in 1970.
Dang, must hurt to be that old. (I graduated the year after you.) How'd you make out in your draft lottery?
IIRC, my number was in the 200s. Not that it matters- two years later I joined the US Navy of my own volition. I figured I could learn a trade. Interestingly enough, the mechanic work that I did as a kid qualified me for working in the engine room of a ship. I wanted to go into the nuclear Navy as an electronics tech. I didn't know that I could get a contract and a guarantee of the "A" school of my choice. My mistake/lack of knowledge. :/
BoT, the only things that hurt to any major degree are my feet, now that my hands have been altered by carpal tunnel release surgery. I used to have "plier hands" according to my friends, because I could remove stuff that no one else could. Now, I call them "candy hands" because a I can't do a lot of stuff I used to do, though they are slowly coming back to strength.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.