This is true. I've spoken to a number of people our age. I'm 25. Not very many people with actual hobbies. I think everyone our ages considers hobbies something like knitting or painting models or something they'd label as "lame."

I used to watch TV considerable more than I do now. My hobbies have always been cars, computers, electronics and cobbling together random things to make life easier and/or lazier. Yesterday was spend repairing cruise control modules and repairing a 70s' Kenwood Model 650. Today will be spend testing that 650, working on a C# application for a friend of mine and general cleaning/organization. Tomorrow will be car repair day and more code work. Maybe a movie tonight or tomorrow. I also have to fix my one friends linux server box.

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82 300SD 145k
89 420SEL 210k
89 560SEL 118k
90 300SE 262k RIP 5/25/2010
90 560SEL 154k
91 300D 2.5 Turbo. 241k
93 190E 3.0 235k
93 300E 195k

1985 - 1st U.S. restaurant opens in Amherst, New York

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1983 300D
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Yeh, we are few and far between. At one time in history probably every man could at least change their own oil. Its sad now that women do more then men. You talk to guys and its like you say, they think hobbies are lame and getting together with guys means your gay...society has created some strange rules now..

Man wish you were local....I love electronics, cars and at one time computers...they've gotten so complicated I've gotten bored with them.

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That's why I'm doing flash cards instead of differential equations.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

How bizarre, I had no idea. Funny I did a 3,500 mile road trip through the eastern US and Canadian atlantic/maritime provinces in 1997, when I got my first SD, and I don't recall ever seeing one on the US side.

One of the rare occasions we've EXPORTED anything to do with fast food to you guys ....

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2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Okay technically speaking they've gotten to cheap...I use to like the hardware aspect of computers, now you need a scientific lab in order to replace a component...can't even replace an LCD panel in a laptop any longer...they are all glued and sealed in...

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From your description, I strongly suspect he was in category two.

I'm hoping he was the exception in your similar interactions. Even among the ten-second-soundbite-youtube-smartphone-addicted generation, there are still those who know and practice common courtesy. That guy is just a self-centered jerk. In prior generations he would have been listening to a song on the CD/cassette/8-track/radio and told you to wait ("don't interrupt my tunes, man!") and then forgotten you anyway.

That stinks. I remember pulling the keyboard on my (now) 2-year-old Dell Inspiron & all the warnings that came with the instructions about the computer/keyboard self-destructing if it was looked at the wrong way...

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Ugh. I know the kind. Sad to know stupidity caused the death of a once nice car.

I'm only 23, and I was into the whole Facebook, Smartphone and all that business when i was around 18-20, then I started getting more and more irritated how much it costs and how all the company's and stuff expect you to spend an arm and a leg keeping up to date.

I got rid of my smartphone and deactivated facebook for about a year. i have facebook back, but its really getting on my nerves recently. slow. full of idiots, etc.

I'm so glad to have a wife that knows about cars too. her car (92 Buick Wagon, havent got her into a TD yet) made a little clunk one time leaving a store. she stopped, backed into a parking space and shut it off immediately.
water pump shaft sheared off. never seen anything like it. got it home safely, she changed it herself. what a girl!

But anyway, the society of today is making people expect instant gratification for everything. you want it, you got it right now.

People have no communication skills, its going downhill guys.

Hope you don't have to deal with any more bozos like that guy ever again.

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1982 300D (w123, "Blue Car")
2001 Ford F150 "Clifford" (The Big Red Truck)
1997 Dodge Ram 2500 12V Cummins
1996 Dodge Ram 2500 12V Cummins
Previous Vehicles:
1995 E300D, 1980 300SD, 1992 Buick Century, 2005 Saturn Ion

Unfortunately the cell phone guy will make the engine failure whunter's fault. He will cook some story how whunter kept rescheduling the meeting and if he only kept his appointment the motor will still be running. Really, these people live in an alternate reality.

Good grief. Especially now that the W123 are becoming hipster-trendy, a lot are about to die because of negligent (young) owners. Sigh.

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Yeh be cautious...if you remove the wrong screw it will call dell and report you...

I can't do PC's anymore....got so sick of sitting down at the puter....turning it on and getting the blue screen of death....then spending the next 12 hours reinstalling windows....just to find about windows went ahead and wiped my hard drive for me

Lol I may be 28 but I remember the birth of the internet...I feel old...the days of AOL flooding the world with CDs...internet crashing at the pickup of the phone.....when MySpace was the first social network....spending hours in yahoo chat rooms.....ah the days before I had to have a Google account....to shop at Safeway....

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sometimes you can do things interesting with the data plan. Like you can run VOIP so you can make long distance calls without cost

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! God I swear everything I enjoy becomes a trend and gets ruined for me.

Wow, the OP is a saint. I would have waited in the Timmies at the first meeting for the length of time it took me to choke down one of their garbage coffees (why the hell is it so popular?) and that would have been it. No way I would have met him again unless he called me and apologized profusely.

I would give a LOT to have somebody like him around where I live, and you'd bet I'd at least be buying his coffee if for some reason I screwed up the meeting time and he had to wait on me.

That poor car, it deserved a much better fate. What a waste.

Technology is a two edged sword. I'd rather my daughter and her merry little band of hooligans sat down in front of a TV playing Minecraft than simply watching some TV show that's basically a thirty minute commercial for buying a line of dolls. Minecraft is like Unlimited Virtual Lego, it's a good way to stretch a kid's mind.

I'd much rather they were outside, and that's why I live on a farm, and that's where they get exiled when the weather is good so they can shoot bows at stuff or throw manure at each other. Occasionally one gets mauled by a barn cat, and that's an opportunity to teach the survivors rudimentary first aid and that nature is not like Disney.

I will punch every hipster in the face that I see abusing a W123. I need to buy up as many as I can now!