[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

My Grandma used to call Grandpas’s car “the machine.”

[ConservativeWarrior]

Phrases my second generation Irish American grandfather used until his death:

- Battries
- Colored folk
- Eyetalians
- Cripple spot (handicapped parking spot)

[COBOL2Java]

My Grandma used to call Grandpas’s car “the machine.”

I remember my Great Aunt (born 1890) would refuse to wear a seat belt (back in my day all we had were actual "belts" that went across the waist). Her reason? "I'll just jump out of the jalopy before we crash"

I always thought it might have been something she saw Buster Keaton do in a silent movie.

[Bigg Red]

I was just thinking of that term. When I was in grade school in the 1950s, one of the nuns used that term for a car. My mother explained to me that quite a few older people used that word.