{"id":34423,"date":"2025-10-03T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34423"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:24:22","slug":"right-there-with-adaptive-curmudgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/03\/right-there-with-adaptive-curmudgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Right There With Adaptive Curmudgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/adaptivecurmudgeon.com\/2025\/10\/02\/roaring-twenties-and-the-improba-broom\/\" target=\"_new\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDepression People\u201d wasn\u2019t all old people, just some. You could tell by how they acted. They hoarded the tiniest resource. I remember seeing a box labeled \u201csmall bits of string\u201d that had, you guessed it, small bits of string. It wasn\u2019t a person who needed the bits for some logical reason, say a fly tying hobbyist. This was a person who\u2019d been through The Great Depression. It created a desire to preserve things they might need. I remember other things; jars of buttons, dull needles, bent nails. All available for a song in the 1970\u2019s. All carefully stored in case the \u201cplenty\u201d of 1970\u2019s disappeared.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * * *<\/p>\n<p>Does some portion of each successive generation become \u201cDepression People\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>I do not have a box labeled \u201cbits of string\u201d. I do have a bunch of campfire wood culled from old pallets. I\u2019m damn near there aren\u2019t I?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who, me?<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons that I&#8217;m not making much headway on the garage is that I have so much stuff that I might use or repair someday, so I cannot throw it away today.<\/p>\n<p>And AC talks about a broom that he didn&#8217;t want to get rid of.  Ah, brother, I have not only a collection of brooms that do only an okay job and backup brooms that only do an okay job in the garage and a trashcan full of such tools in the shed, but when it comes time to retire them, I cut the broom handles off and save them for some unknown use in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said: \u201cDepression People\u201d wasn\u2019t all old people, just some. You could tell by how they acted. They hoarded the tiniest resource. I remember seeing a box labeled \u201csmall bits of string\u201d that had, you guessed it, small bits of string. It wasn\u2019t a person who needed the bits for some logical reason, say a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34425,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34423\/revisions\/34425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}