# This still exists?? Your moments right out of the past. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565 "2018-12-04T21:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/21 "2018-12-05T19:16:10Z")
Michigan still has three operating one room schoolhouses in 2018. One of them is in Bangor, MI which is sort of near where I live. They have about 30 students ranging in ages Kindergarten through eighth grade, all of whom are taught by 2 teachers. I’m amazed at what they do with those kids there with the few resources they have. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/22 "2018-12-05T20:17:30Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Forcing you to cruise on back home. Kids these days have no idea what the previous line even means. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/23 "2018-12-05T20:18:35Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > I remember those days. We heard stories about people putting the tab in the can and swallowing it, but never knew of anyone actually doing it. It was always the kids in \. I remember there was an episode of _Emergency!_ in which one of the cases was, indeed, a guy who’d swallowed a pull-tab, and had gotten it lodged in his throat. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/24 "2018-12-05T20:20:59Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I remember there was an episode of _Emergency!_ in which one of the cases was, indeed, a guy who’d swallowed a pull-tab, and had gotten it lodged in his throat. Memory confirmed, or at the very least we are suffering from the same mis-recollection. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/25 "2018-12-05T20:26:01Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Forcing you to cruise on back home. Happened to me once but fortunately there was booze in the blender. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/26 "2018-12-05T20:44:37Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Happened to me once but fortunately there was booze in the blender. Had some extra sandals too. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/27 "2018-12-05T20:51:53Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > The google maps image actually catches a level crossing keeper in the act!! > > (Though not the one we met :(). > > I mean, what are the chances of\* that\*? Well, if it take the keeper 2 minutes to close both gates then 2 minutes more to open them again and it happens at the same interval during all daylight hours, then the odds are roughly 1 in 4 that any given minute the picture is taken would include the keeper in action. I’ll let you adjust the variables accordingly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/28 "2018-12-05T20:52:34Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Memory confirmed, or at the very least we are suffering from the same mis-recollection. 🙂 I found it. Season 5, Episode 3, “Election,” first aired 9/27/75. As per [the summary description on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emergency!_episodes#Season_5_(1975%E2%80%9376)): > [@](#): > > The firefighters first save a man who got his arm stuck in a drainpipe, then his brother, who swallows a beverage-can pull tab and aspirates. In scanning through the episode descriptions, I’m struck by the number of cases of: - rescuing someone who got their hand / arm stuck in something - helping someone who became high or poisoned by ingesting something they didn’t realize was harmful ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/29 "2018-12-05T21:27:04Z")
I can think of one at Marston Lane (yup near where the battle of Marston Moor took place) Theres another just up the same line a couple of miles > **[Hessay Level Crossing - The ABC Railway Guide](https://abcrailwayguide.uk/hessay-public-level-crossing-york)** > > Hessay Level Crossing at the ABC Railway Guide. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/30 "2018-12-05T21:55:17Z")
The [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_keeper#Current_status) of countries with current lighthouse keepers is interesting. Several are listed as to when the last manned lighthouse was converted to automatic. Italy apparently still has quite a few. The US no longer has any but Canada does. It esp. wants to keep the one on [Machias Seal Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machias_Seal_Island) manned to maintain it’s sovereignty claim. It’s both manned _and_ automatic. “Hey guys, time to helicopter out to a godforsaken island for your fun 4 weeks of doing nothing. Let us know if the Yanks invade.” ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/31 "2018-12-05T22:55:55Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Well, if it take the keeper 2 minutes to close both gates then 2 minutes more to open them again and it happens at the same interval during all daylight hours, then the odds are roughly 1 in 4 that any given minute the picture is taken would include the keeper in action. I’ll let you adjust the variables accordingly. 😃 Ahem. In most of those hypothetical minutes you would not see a keeper _caught in the act_. You would see the back of the (stationary) car in front; or (if you were lucky) a keeper being run over by a google van with a camera on its roof. Variables adjusted? 😉 j ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/32 "2018-12-05T23:06:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Here is a similar one](https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/01/japan-keeps-this-defunct-train-station-running-for-just-one-passenger/423273/). LOL that’s not just a similar one, it’s the same one. I mean not my station, but that was my line. Seemed like it had 5-10 stations like that one. Hokkaido is crazy rural but it seems like no town is too small for a train stop. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/33 "2018-12-05T23:22:45Z")
Just this morning, somebody handed me a phone book which was delivered to her home. At one time (barely over a decade ago!) my family delivered more than 40,000,000 of the things a year, this is the first new one I’ve seen since… 2016, I think. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/34 "2018-12-05T23:43:03Z")
Also from Japan: fax machines everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/35 "2018-12-06T00:00:56Z")
> [@Dragwyr](#): > > Michigan still has three operating one room schoolhouses in 2018. One of them is in Bangor, MI which is sort of near where I live. They have about 30 students ranging in ages Kindergarten through eighth grade, all of whom are taught by 2 teachers. I’m amazed at what they do with those kids there with the few resources they have. This wonderful movie said there were still about 200 one-room public schoolhouses in the U.S. as of 2010 or thereabouts. Most of them were in Native American or Alaskan communities, and others were in the extreme rural west. Warning: because one interviewee talks about “an older boy who was a bully” who sexually assaulted classmates at knifepoint, probably including him, it is not for young children. [http://www.countryschoolmovie.com/](http://www.countryschoolmovie.com/) Back then, they had things like “School of the Air”, on radio and later TV, and now they can get almost anything online. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/36 "2018-12-06T00:03:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Just this morning, somebody handed me a phone book which was delivered to her home. At one time (barely over a decade ago!) my family delivered more than 40,000,000 of the things a year, this is the first new one I’ve seen since… 2016, I think. I delivered them in 2012 (some households flat out said they didn’t want them, so I didn’t give them any; one woman, however, wanted a spare for her car) and I still get one. I use it just enough to justify doing so, even if it is in teeny-tiny type. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/37 "2018-12-06T00:08:18Z")
This isn’t on the scale of some of the things listed above, but my current doctor’s office has paper-only patient records and calendaring. I went in to check when my next appointment was and the receptionist had to pull out a big 3-ring binder and start leafing through it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/38 "2018-12-06T00:20:03Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I delivered them in 2012 (some households flat out said they didn’t want them, so I didn’t give them any; one woman, however, wanted a spare for her car) and I still get one. I use it just enough to justify doing so, even if it is in teeny-tiny type. Where did you deliver them? There is a non-zero chance you worked for me or my family’s business. PM me if you don’t want that info in the open, I won’t be offended if you don’t want me to know at all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/39 "2018-12-06T00:29:53Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Just this morning, somebody handed me a phone book which was delivered to her home. At one time (barely over a decade ago!) my family delivered more than 40,000,000 of the things a year, this is the first new one I’ve seen since… 2016, I think. Last time I saw someone whip out a phone book it raised literally all the eyebrows in the room. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565/40 "2018-12-06T00:52:34Z")
All this talk of phone books remind me of the day in 1979 that they were delivered to my house. Oddly, the guy rang the doorbell and handed it to me, perhaps to hear [the inevitable line.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aIf1YnbbU) (It was the same week as the movie release.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-still-exists-your-moments-right-out-of-the-past/825565.md?page=3)