Yup, same here. Back in high school (this is in the 80's) the neighbor would hire whoever he could get to help with puttin up hay (I was his regular)...I talked a couple of the hotshot football players that lived in the neighborhood into helping one summer. They may have been able to bench more than me, but when it came to mowing hay, they couldn't hang...never came back. Apparently their grueling football practice wasn't so tough after all
I fit your definition of a boomer in so many ways, including the ability to type as much as 2 words a minute with my pointer. On the other hand I do not agree with your conclusions. Based strictly on the year I graduated high school I should have been a hippy but I never went off in that direction. I know exactly how much the dollar has lost value because my present savings do not give me any sense of security although it is well over a million dollars. 20 years from now that is likely to be like a hundred grand today so I am doing what I can to make it grow. I have done things with my hands all of my life and had to do so from an early age. My parents stayed married until my mother died and then my dad remarried a few years later and is still married. I was and still am to some degree a city kid although I spent summers on my grandfather's farm while I was growing up. I am not a troglodyte and do not fear E-10 or any other modern crap although I am honest enough to think I would like it better if there were no alcohol in my fuel. Anything else new or different, bring it on and I will evaluate it. I do not buy into new technology simply because it is new. I want to see how it will work out better than the previous whatever and will refuse to adopt anything that is a step backward no matter how in vogue it is. As far as fearing technology, I would bet dollars to donuts you can't keep up with me programming a new database using MS Access no matter what your generation, very few people can. I know exactly what shorthand is but I never studied Gregg so I will leave that to someone who did. If your reference to shorthand is the meaningless shortcuts to proper punctuation and spelling used on twitter then yes, I do avoid it and so should you. Hot springs and gardening are no mystery to me. I have worked around cows, see how I spent my summers, and know about things that nobody but a farmer really needs to know like how soon a pullet will start laying or when the eggs will be of a good enough quality to start selling them instead of keeping them for your own use. For everyone not familiar with the term, pullets are young chickens and pullet eggs are really unpredictable. Single yolk eggs are about as common as double yolk eggs and yolkless eggs. As a chicken matures her eggs start to resemble the eggs you find in a grocery store. Egg farmers, at least old school ones like my grandfather, keep pullet eggs for their own use because they know that folks don't expect to ever see double yolks and such and they sell the eggs of more mature chickens. Even at the extreme low price of an egg, people will not tolerate anything but what they are used to seeing. Any egg sent to a grocery store must have one and only one yolk. You need to remove your cranium from your rectum, wake up and smell the coffee.
Whoaaaa!!!! Every time one of these videos comes up I watch all these good people talk sh$t about different generations. It's a joke. Every generation has a problem with the generations after them because they are looking at it through older eyes. They do not agree with the different ways things are done and they fail to see the problems with there own generation. Pretty sure this has been going on forever!!! Personally I think these are vids are funny. They are a certain group of our generation but don't put me or anyone on here in that group!
It's the parents fault. When I was younger I was RENTED out !!!!! Trees, roofs didn't matter.......Left alone with a quota to hit or don't come home. The way it was. No argument nuttin. When my kid and a buddy of his were younger probably around 8 ish I'd stack pallets up by a couple of Bridgeport's and they would drill holes. They would get little cuts minor burns and swiverz in der lil fingys. The guy's in the shop liked having them around.....It toughened them up !!!!! Grab a smoking drill and turn around and realize that crying isn't going to help. As the years went by they developed, maybe not enjoying it but not b@&##$#g like a bunch of .......
All I know is haying is the worst job I've done in the heat and humidity. The tractor towed the trailer and we stacked 3 bales high. The 1st layer was nothing, the 2nd layer, you had to heave it up. The 3rd layer, was all muscles. You all that have done it as a teen know. It left you itchy as all heck. And, this was after 8 hours of landscaping already, in my case. That being said, young or old, in this club we all work hard doing what we do. Thats what we ALL do, and that's what unites us. Keep cutting my friends.!!!!!!!!!!!!
That statement about Mexicans sounds a little close to political to me, lets keep them out of it. This is what I see as a problem with this site as well as many others. Someone puts up a real funny video but a few pages later its turned into a real stupid chitfest. Tired of it folks, its happening way too often here.
We in this club have far more that unites us than divides us, lets keep it positive. On to a different thread, see ya there.
I was the kid driving the tractor so I have no opinion on the layers. I did get differing instructions on where to set the throttle from the folks tossing hay onto the wagon.
Kyle, I am going to disagree. I see that you quoted me but completely misunderstood what I was saying. I have no doubt that my own generation had much the same problems as the present one and I believe you could get that from what I said if you actually thought about what I said. I have zero issues from the present generation. They are exactly what we, the older generation, asked them to be by our actions. Some endured the same or similar hardships that I did and are turning out to be similarly competent adults. Some were coddled by their parents and turned out the way their parents should have expected. My youngest daughter spent her summers doing things like installing stereos and alarm systems in cars and earned my respect for what she does. She is the one that thought it was cool to work with dad when I was doing things around the house and I gave her jobs to do like screwing things in place after I had made sure they would fit. It let her learn how to use a screw driver, a very simple skill. We get exactly what we set our kids to do. If that is nothing, they will have no skills. If we demand that they learn basic skills it will happen and we can ultimately be proud of them.
Exactly, I always tell them that I don't care if you ever do it again at least you'll know how. Like I said a few posts ago ..... It's the parents fault. When did it become the "norm" to rely on the school to provide the total education ???? How many kids can't even change a tire ?
Had a guy in his early 20's work for me....... Along side me........His dad came in and said I was overworking him......WTF ?????
Wifey and I were in Chicago Wednesday night. She wanted to eat at Gibson's. She was of the impression that I needed a jacket, so I suited up. Even put a shine on my favorite old wingtips. First table we see out in the sun room is full of lumbersexuals. WTH? In downtown Chicago? I just said "Apparently you were misinformed about the jacket and tie requirement ". All during dinner I kept looking around for the trees those fellas had been working on. They must've already hauled 'em off.
