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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 320046" data-attributes="member: 3373">Always had indoor plumbing but I'm pretty sure it was installed just before the time when I could remember that stuff. Never rode bike to school but had an aunt who worked at the school so rode with her. First tractor I drove was an 'R' JD. had to start the gas engine and use that to start the diesel. Do I want to go back? For morals and character, probably. For convenience, nope. Don't farm but do help a guy out and there is no way I would want to sit on that old JD for 12+ hours/day. I can easily do that sitting in a climate controlled cab, push a button so the tractor can take me to the other end and then the ease of turning around can be done with a finger on the wheel.Getting across the lake in a 14' boat with a 10 hp motor, compared to the comforts of today. Or driving in the snow with a car or 2-wheel drive vehicle. Thought I was in heaven when I bought my first 4-wheel drive Blazer. Now you have to special order to get a 2-wheel drive.Think we got our first TV in about 1956-57. Finally got to watch Captain Kangaroo. Cried my eyes out that first morning when the antenna wasn't hooked up and there was nothing but snow on the TV. The good old days? Sometimes and sometimes not so much.</blockquote>