You know you're old when...

“"the full-sized full flavored EATING marshmallows"

as opposed to what?”

“i want to know where i can get me some a dat pistachio lemon shortbread. that sounds yummy!”

“you remember 25 cent packs of Cigarettes...

You Remember when it was a sign of prosperity to be a "$ 10,000.000 a Year Man"

Yes, 10 THOUSAND....”

“Why 3 places past the decimal? Did you get paid in mils instead of pennies?”

“you remember gasoline for less than 20 cents per gallon”

“...when you find a gray hair in your nether region. Ruined my whole damn week.”

“why, did you have plans for those hairs?”

“LOL. Just made me feel old as dirt!”

“When you can remember what Viatalis is.

When you can remember cigarette commercials on TV.

When you can remember Spiderman....on TV.

When you can remember when they still delivered milk to the front door.

When you can remember someone waking you up to watch Neal Armstrong step onto the moon.”

“When you were the person waking someone up to watch Neal Armstrong step on the moon.”

“LOL...when you look at the Firefighter who is taking a group of men inside....and remember not too long ago he was the 8 year old kid bringing you water on a hot fireground.

HERE is the kicker, I may have told this, but a few months ago my daughter (now 12) was with me on Saturday while we went to the Farm to relax. I got a call of a fire and the Chief was requesting an investigator. I arrive on scene, my daughter gets out and starts chatting with the petite cute little Newspaper reporterette.

I am inside with the Ladder company and the Engineer on the Ladder was working on a stubborn spot. We had it knocked down and the guys were going through the usual comparisons of the various spectators.

The engineer pipes up, "Well that little blonde in the kahki short is going to be a killer in a couple of years." He says.

I look over at him and said, "Trev, do you know who that is? Thats my 11 year old daughter." (LOL) He remembers 8 years or more ago when she was a little girl coming by to visit daddy.”

“Wow, you guys really are old.
8D”

“You know you are old when you lived through a lot of that stuff but you DON'T remember it. :-)”

“What was it....if you can remember the 60's you werent' there.”

“.when you find a gray hair in your nether region. Ruined my whole damn week.”
Creek Dancer
2:07:26 PM
11/14/06


Shave it all off. It'll make you look much younger.........maybe even sexier.”

“Seeing a nice trim job on a chick gets me going every time.
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“When the pastor asked you to stand & say the Lord's Prayer in church and when the service is over you turn to your husband and say "Did they forget to say the Lord's Prayer?" to which he replies "No..they said it 10 minutes ago..where were you?"”

“You know you're old when... you remember opening beer cans with a can opener. Many people still have a can opener in their fishing tackle box.

You know you're old when... you miss Sing Along With Mitch.
last edited: 12/23/06 12:54:45 PM”

“You know you're old when you weight the effort required for a task against the reward of doing the task. An example is walking from an attached room into a trailer, which requires going up two steps, to turn on the computer and check on TT. You are definitely old, when avoiding the task usually wins.”

“NS..sometimes checking on TT isn't worth the steps! LOL”

“That's becoming more and more true, crazygurl. I'm just talking about stopping to consider the expenditure of energy required to do a task. Years ago I would not even think about it.”

“Yea...but you are still going NS..take that into account. You are like the engergizer bunny...!!! Keep resting and your batteries will be recharged soon!”

“Thanks, crazygurl. However, I really felt it during these last problems, getting so down and out that I needed a defibrillator installed and then the blood clots. I am currently in a slow recovery. Formal rehab and my own rehab should bring me out of it quickly. That and Hazel Creek in October should do it.”

“Rehab, sucks, but is necessary.”

“you can remember when intersection traffic lights did not have turn signal lights.”

“You cut yourself shaving, and dust comes out......”

“I think that actually happened in that movie "The Andromeda Strain".

The first computer program I ever wrote was stored on a small roll of paper with holes punched in it....

Honda Civics were the size of golf carts....

And 8-track tapes were state-of-the-art,   LMAO”

“... when you remember driving a new car with no seat belts and three on the tree”

“Hey, I remember traffic lights w/out turn signals! We still have a whole bunch of them in our town. Now, who called me old?! ;)”

“You know what three on the tree is. LOL”

“loaf of bread, gal of gas, either for .28 cents”

“You remember 8-track tapes and still think they are cool.”

“I saw a computer once that had 4K (that's 4K) of RAM that cost the county over 30 grand.”

“Good grief! Remember when hand held calculators came out? They were $350! Now they're like 8 bucks at Walgreens.”

“You know you're old when...
“you can remember when intersection traffic lights did not have turn signal lights.”
nowslimmer
9:02:37 PM
9/23/07

Hell, the town I grew up in doesn't have a turn signal light on it's only traffic light that has only been in place for 15 years.

Hamilton County, NY only has one traffic light in the whole county and it only flashes red on two sides and yellow on the others.

Are you saying all these people are old too? ;-)”

“you know you're old when ...

You can't remember that traffic lights with turn signals just appeared not too many years back.

lol”

“you know you're old when you run out of gas after you've Run Out of Gas.........”

“Still no traffic signal in my hometown. I do remember when our phone number was 7R14 and you rang "central" to get a number not on the party line.”

“I can remember paying my teacher my lunch money for the week at school and it was $1.25

I remember gas being 29 cents a gallon and I could get a soda and a bag of chips for a quarter.

I remember gathering soda bottles and selling them for a 2 and later 3 cents deposit.”

“A 3-speed column shifter, nicknamed "Three on the Tree" (alternatively, "Three in the Tree"), began appearing in America in the late 1930s and became common during the 1940s and 50's.

wiki

sorry. had to look it up.”

“HPM knows how to drive one. Hell, he has one still sitting in his parents' side yard. Three on a tree that is.”

“When you started college....

- you still had rotary dial phones (granted, it was only a few months)

- you had to bring a typewriter to school

- you had to split your phone bill by hand (and hoped that your roommate had paid their half!)

- you had a 128K Mac in the Computer lab (and if you were one of the lucky 12 people you got to use one...

- the university still used Hollerith (?) cards (the ones with the "chads" and a cut out corner) for registration

- the university still had a card catalog

- the road you travelled into campus had no traffic light at an intersection with a dirt road... (it now has a 2 lane highway, a traffic light, and the corn fields are now filled with a high school and a strip mall.)

- students used to say hello to each other while walking to class

- Walkmans and Honda Sprees were all the rage on campus

- when asking a current student at your alma mater to type up a form on a type writer, they stare at you blankly and ask you "where does the paper go?"

- some of the bars around campus were open to students 18 years and older, and if you were underage, you would have to try to mooch a hand stamp off of a legal aged friend...

- you could actually stay out until 7:30 a.m. sleep for 2 hours and still function....”

“You remember the milkman delivering to your door.”

“- the university still had a card catalog

Hey my school had one of those in the architecture library, I bet they still do.”

“... if you learned to type on a keypunch machine

... if you did some major work using Fortran”

“Finishing college was easier with a computer (1995) than when I started back then (1978). Somewhere 12 years was taken up in between.”

““You remember the milkman delivering to your door.”

Ours came right inside through the back door!”

“we had a milkman at our home b4 college (1975)”

“Recently, I had 2 school visits where I had the chance to relive high school and to experience school lunches.

It wasn't bad, really...

Lunch cost only $3.50 for staff (only $2.50 for students.)

For that I got:

1)
Chef Salad with about 4-6 oz. of turkey lunchmeat and 4 oz. of cheese, 2 packets of dressing, 1 cup of grape juice, 1 piece of fruit, and a 2-pack of Oreo cookies.

2)
a Chicken Caesar wrap, 1 bottle of water, a cup of chicken noodle soup and an apple.

Pretty decent amount for mere pennies on the dollar to what a fast food meal costs (and much healthier!)

However, back when I was in high school, I think lunch only cost $1.50 (with milk costing $0.05 back in elementary school (some of my friends remember when milk cost only $0.02!!)”

“I recall signing up for classes and if there were no punchcards left, the class was full ---

Lunch money was WAY back there!   LOLOL

Dick? Jane? Sally? Spot? Puff??

Phonics?       Structured COBOL?

”