[PRCo] On the subject of old age

[Schneider Fred]

Old age is

1)   When you are running 1711 at PTM and you can remember reading  
the advertisement in the Pittsburgh Press announcing its delivery.    
(Old age is also remember photographing the same car at Mingo Mine on  
the Charleroi line in 1953.)

2)   Old age is being asked to judge an antique car show at the  
Baltimore Streetcar Museum and saying OK but I will not be willing to  
award a prize to anything younger than myself ... so those guys who  
came with a 1941 Chevrolet can go home without the price.    
Fortunately there was a chap there with a ancient Sears Roebuck that  
had just gone through a wheels up restoration and we all agreed that  
it won.

3)  Old age is making the mistake of asking your dad to watch the old  
time movies with you on Howdy Doody and not having enough brains at  
that age to understand that it was just making him feel old.  They  
weren't old to him, just his youth being brought back to the  
forefront.   (If we were still living, he would be 101.   But he did  
tell me of driving along the National Pike in Aunt Carrie's 1927  
Chevrolet and being overtaken by a Ohio Electric interurban car on  
very uncertain track near Columbus.   He also once took the steam  
boat Senator Cordill from Marietta to Pittsburgh instead of the  
Baltimore and Ohio railroad because he had a day to kill.)