Subj : Then and now
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Thu Aug 22 2019 06:55:08

   Daryl wrote --

> world, ham radio, and nets, revolve around them". It, like the BBS, is a 
HOBBY -- it should never take PRIORITY over such things like church,
> family, health, job, or especially "honey-do's". :P

  WHAT!!  Heresy!  Burn him!  :)

>   I'll try anything once. But, most days, I prefer to "eat on the
> cheap". But, as my late wife noted, she didn't are whether we ate at
> McDonald's or The Olive Garden...food was food.

  One of a number of things I noticed on my trip.
  My last cross country trip was in the mid 1970s.  Then you had
mom-and-pop diners along the road.  Those are nearly all gone now.  I recall 
seeing
only two (ate at one) on my trip.  Now they are all the same FF joints.
  Of course gas stations with a max of four pumps are gone, replaced by
many pumps with options, convenience stores, etc.
  I was in a truck stop somewhere in PA (can't recall off hand where,  near
NJ) for gas that was more of a mini-mall than a truck stop.  And inside
instead of hearty truck driver food were national burgers and subs. 
 
>   Now, in competition, you wonder "Why should I work so hard? I'll get a 
trophy, anyway". :P

  I still haven't gotten my trophy from the times I was called into work
with only minutes notice to fill in for someone who didn't show up.
  Joe
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