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Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:38:15

I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

Chicago was always pretty easy due to the layout*

Posted by MtHoodIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MtHoodIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 19:17:30, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Much like with phone numbers, directions were always "Ask RSMBob". Unfortunately...

Posted by RSMBob <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RSMBob' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:07:49, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

...I am now obsolete

[dazzle] I STILL PRINT OUT MAPQUEST MAPS, DAMMIT! [/dazzle]*

Posted by Illiniphil <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Illiniphil' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 15:29:05, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

saw Chris Porter at the Houston Improv a few months back - had a bit "there are people in the

Posted by bulldogmba <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bulldogmba' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:58:08, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

audience who've never been lost...."

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

I love it when you get the occasional boomer

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 11:07:17, in reply to "saw Chris Porter at the Houston Improv a few months back - had a bit "there are people in the"

who tries to give you directions to their house, and you have to pretend like you're paying attention until they give you the address, which you're just gonna plug into your phone and blindly follow.

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audience who've never been lost...."

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

My dad occasionally still gives me verbal directions, even though he and I both use GPS

Posted by Taz <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Taz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:55:55, in reply to "I love it when you get the occasional boomer"

Old habits die hard, I guess.

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who tries to give you directions to their house, and you have to pretend like you're paying attention until they give you the address, which you're just gonna plug into your phone and blindly follow.

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audience who've never been lost...."

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Sometimes you just need to yeet a bobcat *

Being an Illini fan is a goddamn curse.*

It really is hard to process a world where navigation didn't exist

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:47:43, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

I was a pretty early adopter of Garmin and remember what a game changer it was.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

I was thinking the other day about an office job I had in '98

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:51:19, in reply to "It really is hard to process a world where navigation didn't exist"

The computers we used didn't have Windows, they were basically just a DOS shell for our database. I honestly can't remember how we passed the time.

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

constantly think about how my job would have been 20 and especially 30+ years ago

Posted by ijustkrushalot <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ijustkrushalot' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:53:02, in reply to "I was thinking the other day about an office job I had in '98"

most of what I do is looking at a maps of all of our utilities, districts, systems, etc... and pulling up google street view and aerial photography to look at properties.. then sending emails.

There are things I can do in 20 minutes that would have taken a full day or more for someone a generation before me.

I was a census enumerator in 1990. Had to find all sorts of hidden residences.

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 14:48:29, in reply to "I was thinking the other day about an office job I had in '98"

Assuming street view and GPS would make that job a lot easier.

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The computers we used didn't have Windows, they were basically just a DOS shell for our database. I honestly can't remember how we passed the time.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I spent a summer working for the Polk directory.

Posted by Illiniphil <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Illiniphil' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 15:45:56, in reply to "I was a census enumerator in 1990. Had to find all sorts of hidden residences."

Same thing....had to find addresses that were listed in the previous year's directory. Some of them were tough to find.

Talk about a company that the Internet destroyed....

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Assuming street view and GPS would make that job a lot easier.

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The computers we used didn't have Windows, they were basically just a DOS shell for our database. I honestly can't remember how we passed the time.

My first job was a pizza delivery guy

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:55:41, in reply to "I was thinking the other day about an office job I had in '98"

Imagine doing that job without navigation. It was a small town, mind you, but it still was a lot to process.

My first "real" computer was a Gateway I got in grad school in 1995. I remember what a total gamechanger getting an AOl account was. I can still hear the dial up sound in my head.

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The computers we used didn't have Windows, they were basically just a DOS shell for our database. I honestly can't remember how we passed the time.

Imagine working at Gumby's Pizza in 2004

Posted by ijustkrushalot <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ijustkrushalot' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:55:21, in reply to "My first job was a pizza delivery guy"

all the drunken calls at 2am from people ordering pokey sticks and not knowing where the fuck they were or where they were going, I am amazed they ever got delivered.

And then working as fast as you could in AOL because you were getting charged by the minute.

Posted by Illiniphil <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Illiniphil' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 15:30:50, in reply to "My first job was a pizza delivery guy"

Or by the hour.

Or something like that.

I remember playing live games on AOL where the prizes were free hours of login time.

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The computers we used didn't have Windows, they were basically just a DOS shell for our database. I honestly can't remember how we passed the time.

when we first got the Interwebs my parents had a notebook next to teh computer to log our time

Posted by ijustkrushalot <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ijustkrushalot' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:55:59, in reply to "And then working as fast as you could in AOL because you were getting charged by the minute."

because we only had 20 hours a month

modern map app directions are pretty poor, relatively speaking*

Posted by torinese <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=torinese' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:50:45, in reply to "It really is hard to process a world where navigation didn't exist"

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I was a pretty early adopter of Garmin and remember what a game changer it was.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

I know Seattle pretty well, and I totally agree

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:53:12, in reply to "modern map app directions are pretty poor, relatively speaking*"

that the "fastest" way is usually not the way that a navigation app would take you.

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I was a pretty early adopter of Garmin and remember what a game changer it was.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

My kingdom got Google maps to get a 'go around this train/construction/etc' button*

Posted by Taz <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Taz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:54:39, in reply to "I know Seattle pretty well, and I totally agree"

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that the "fastest" way is usually not the way that a navigation app would take you.

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I was a pretty early adopter of Garmin and remember what a game changer it was.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Sometimes you just need to yeet a bobcat *

Being an Illini fan is a goddamn curse.*

i'm convinced they perform AB testing regularly*

Posted by torinese <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=torinese' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 11:00:54, in reply to "I know Seattle pretty well, and I totally agree"

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that the "fastest" way is usually not the way that a navigation app would take you.

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I was a pretty early adopter of Garmin and remember what a game changer it was.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

what does that mean in English?

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 11:06:01, in reply to "i'm convinced they perform AB testing regularly*"

We all have that friend (or parent) who will follow literally everything a GPS tells him to do, even if it means driving into a lake.

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that the "fastest" way is usually not the way that a navigation app would take you.

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I was a pretty early adopter of Garmin and remember what a game changer it was.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

we had a leather-bound atlas growing up. i wore out the spine.

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:44:41, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

i would look at maps of places for hours and quiz myself on facts about them. even today, i will look at googlemaps when i'm bored. i'm a very visual thinker and essentially have a street view running in my head at all times of day. part of my brain is constantly traveling around to places i've been and if i focus on it, I can pop down and have a look around. for example, it's currently on tatum at shea in scottsdale facing north. I can see a fry's to my left, a group of one story doctor's offices to my right. there's a trader joe's across the street on the left and a bigger strip mall across and to the right with a paradise bakery and an albertson's grocery store behind that.

if i've been somewhere once, i will always be able to find it again.

"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

I wear out Atlases to this day about every 10 years or so. Love looking at them*

Posted by MtHoodIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MtHoodIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 19:18:43, in reply to "we had a leather-bound atlas growing up. i wore out the spine. "

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My parents still have a 1969 Encyclopaedia Britannica set, in a custom bookcase

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:38:46, in reply to "we had a leather-bound atlas growing up. i wore out the spine. "

that they presumably threw in if you bought the whole set. It has a World Atlas that I always found interesting as a kid. Now it's utterly remarkable given how changed the world is now. Deprecated place names. Countries that don't exist, etc.

I kind of want to bring it to my house and use it as a curiosity but they still have it out and display it.

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Regular atlas jammed between passenger seat and middle area*

Posted by JeffFrank <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=JeffFrank' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 14:52:16, in reply to "we had a leather-bound atlas growing up. i wore out the spine. "

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After a week in isolated, mountainous Utah last week, driving without GPS can be fun *

Posted by illini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:21:14, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Thomas Bros Street Guide was indispensable on the West Coast

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:13:58, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

There was also an L.A. County Shortcut book that showed how to avoid every freeway

Yep...I bought a new Thomas Guide every 3-4 years, always at Costco*

Posted by RSMBob <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RSMBob' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 16:06:17, in reply to "Thomas Bros Street Guide was indispensable on the West Coast "

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There was also an L.A. County Shortcut book that showed how to avoid every freeway

Enough of this country has poor cell service that everyone should still carry a road atlas, and

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:11:24, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

have some basic wayfinding skills.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Back in my day, we used to just pull up the wagon to the next tavern and ask

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:15:35, in reply to "Enough of this country has poor cell service that everyone should still carry a road atlas, and"

On the old wooden turnpikes there was usually a tavern or maybe a farmstead every 80 miles or so, so once a day or so there's be some kind of help

an atlas is a great time kill for long road trips*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:15:27, in reply to "Enough of this country has poor cell service that everyone should still carry a road atlas, and"

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have some basic wayfinding skills.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Offline / downloadable Google maps has mostly made this a non-issue.*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:13:23, in reply to "Enough of this country has poor cell service that everyone should still carry a road atlas, and"

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have some basic wayfinding skills.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

OK Boomer, good one*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:12:05, in reply to "Enough of this country has poor cell service that everyone should still carry a road atlas, and"

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have some basic wayfinding skills.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

The days of asking toll booth operators and stopping at gas stations to ask for directions*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:08:44, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

a few years ago I did a road trip with my parents, brother, and his kids through SD

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:06:37, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

my dad had been here to visit and normally he'd just drive straight back via I-80 but this time we did a whole trip with everyone through Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, and whatever other touristy things we could hit through SD and NE Wyoming.

my dad planned out the whole route with a couple maps and and an atlas, wrote out all of the directions, and had a copy for each car.

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

Wall Drug! Corn Palace!*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:50:02, in reply to "a few years ago I did a road trip with my parents, brother, and his kids through SD"

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I drove cross country in ‘09, after GPS was out there, purely with that spiral atlas

Posted by snipes824 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=snipes824' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:05:03, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

Just for old times sake.

It helped that you’re just on an interstate 90% of the time, but it was still nice.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

My dad and I would look at his trusty road Atlas for all of our big trips and map

Posted by Taz <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Taz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:02:49, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

It out.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Sometimes you just need to yeet a bobcat *

Being an Illini fan is a goddamn curse.*

Oh, if you want to "understand the interstate system" this is fun video

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:53:53, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Up to date Rand McNally Road Atlas and the floating compass.*

Posted by ibdoc <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ibdoc' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:49:31, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

I used to depend on my wife reading maps which often led to yelling*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:42:21, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

my dad's atlas book was a big source of entertainment on long road trips*

Posted by lcubed <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=lcubed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:42:03, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

100%*

Posted by biclops <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=biclops' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 10:10:13, in reply to "my dad's atlas book was a big source of entertainment on long road trips*"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Can I pull out all the stops, and get out of this town?
I wanna make you proud, but I really don't know how.

It’s crazy to me that it’s almost impossible to get lost anymore.

Posted by JFG <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=JFG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:41:36, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

That used to be a thing.

And it’s crazy how reliant I’ve become on navigation. We were in the Smokey’s over spring break and once you get in there and have no cell service…you’d think I was back in covered wagon times with how rudimentary I felt.

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

I think people are shocked with how much you actually had to pay attention.

Posted by longsnapper <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=longsnapper' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:46:18, in reply to "It’s crazy to me that it’s almost impossible to get lost anymore."

As in "wow, I have to read all these roads signs?!"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

Lots of puns, no real answers

The last question leads me to believe that this was a set up*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 4, 2025, 9:40:12, in reply to "Here's some entertainment for this board of old heads:"

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I remember riding along with my dad when he worked for a Chicago area courier/delivery company. I got pretty handy with the ol' spiral-bound street atlas.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

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