You know you're old when...

“But I'm not old!”
Sassafras
7:14:54 AM
2/04/05

Sass, your over the hill now...lol


remember when you couldn't wait (seemed like forever also) to turn 18 or 21. Well once you hit 21 those yrs start flying by. Now you wish it would slow down so you can do all you want to do.”

“My 1st car was a Henry J.






But, I'm going on 26.”

“I AM NOT OVER THE HILL! The hill is 50 isn't it? I have 18 more years. I still don't know nearly enough to be over the hill.

Pink, I did go to downtown hudson's once. It must've been an amazing place in it's day, a hint of what Detroit once was. I do still call Marshall Fields Hudsons. =)”

“Over the hill.......

And ready to ROLLLLLL!!!!!”

“You Know You’re Getting Old When…..

You receive an email announcing the arrival of your Great Niece:




Alice Caroline Mather
arrived Philadelphia -- Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 9:12pm
7 lbs 7 oz.”

“er.... 'Grand' Niece...

I'm kinda new at this.”

“... and my mind is starting to go...”

“...you post on this thread. 'cept me. I hope.”

“Tilt...

It's not fair when you don't even have any kids yet, and your In-laws are already grandparents (thus making you a grand-aunt or uncle) and you're still in your 30s!!”

“I can remember waking early one morning with a world champion hangover with the pictured infant's mother (about the same age as the pictured infant) in the next room screaming as if someone had set her on fire.

Makes my head hurt just thinking about it, LOL”

“Im on my third grand kid :) but you arent really old untill you start having great grand children”

“unfortunately, if there's only 19 years between each of my sister-in-law's generations, that would mean I'd only be about 55 before I'd be a great-great aunt.....

*** shudders at the thought! ***”

“CONGRATULATIONS, Tilt!! I wish i could see the picture.

Hey! We have a Mather here on TT. Oh wait, that's her TT handle. :D”

“dead!!!”

“7 cent 16 oz. RC Colas, nickel Hershey bars, ten cent double scoop ice cream cones, 20 cent Saturday matinee tickets and 10 cent popcorn, riding your bike all over town, even at night, and never having to worry about people bothering you, gas wars at filling stations(not the same as oil wars in Iraq) 8-tracks, when a record used to be a 33 LP, punch cards to run your Fortran program in college ........”

“When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up. What with walking five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average, despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death! And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've. Got. It. So. Damn. easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned Utopia! When I was a kid we didn't have the internet - when we wanted to know something we had to get off our fat asses and go to the library and look it up ourselves! And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter! With a pen! And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox. And it would take like a week to get there!
And there were no mp3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and screw it all up!
You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just "download" porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or jack off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalog! That's it! Those were your only options!
We didn't have fancy #&%!$ like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was...it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances!
And we didn't have any new age Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600 and Comodore 64! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and "Adventure" And the graphics sucked! See that little square? Your guy was that little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen ....forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like life!
And When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same god damn height! If a tall guy sat in front of you? You were #&%!$ outta luck! And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 7 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little #&%!$ty book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning! D'ya hear what I'm saying? We had to wait all week, you spoiled little bastards! That's exactly what I'm talking about!

You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1980.”

“That's all you know.....”

“I was lucky, my stepfather had 5 years worth of Playboy magazines down in the basement.

They were all from the 60's though, so they pretty much just showed boobies. But I was glad to be able to see that!
last edited: 2/04/05 3:55:58 PM”

“Death is not always a sign of age”

“BM, Chinese food for lunch?”

“"Under the bedsheets?"”

“can one use a spoon with General Tso's chicken?

Maybe I should send out an email and ask????????”

“LIMPY--

LOL!!!

I love it!

Call waiting/cell phones were virtually non-existent in the 80s...

There's a few reasons why Thinkbubelz and I DON'T own cell phones:

1) If I wanted someone to call me 24/7, then I'd sit by the phone and wait all day and night...

2) I like the peace and quiet of being somewhere (anywhere, in the grocery store, in the woods, in the bathroom, etc.) away from home and not have to deal with phone solicitors (thankfully, the solicitors lessened since the National "do not call" list went into effect) or other people trying to see what I'm doing at that moment. If you need to reach me, LEAVE A MESSAGE on my answering machine at home!


One great thing about the invention of caller ID is that you can look at the phone and decide to let it go to voice mail or your answering machine... :-) hee hee hee...

There's something to be said for the sound of silence... I really hate it when I'm in a grocery store and it sounds like someone's talking to me--I turn around and it's some idiot talking on his or her cell phone. I don't remember which comedian said it, but they were right about the following-- it used to be that if you heard someone talking or muttering to themselves while walking down the road, you'd think they were crazy... now it's like a million people milling about and having disjointed conversation and invading your "personal space" with their ceaseless yakking....”

“pink, what is worse than that is people that have the Nextel phones. Now you get to listen to both people talk.

Did you ever have a 2 party phone. That is where 2 families shared the same line. Sometimes you may have to wait forever for the old biddy down the street to get off so you could make a call.
If you wanted to call someone you picked up the phone and the operator came on and said Number please...not all of the numbers were numbers either..our first phone number was CA226. I am suprised I remember that.


Limpy, you were lucky to have those video games to play with. My first video game was pong or was it hockey...lol heck it was basically the samething”

“I had Pong and Breakout which connected to the antenna leads on the TV.
(Rod Hockey was my sport)”

“You know you are old when everything you own is polyester:)”

“Polyester....the material of the future!!!!”

“Yes! Limpy - Atari RULES!!!”

“"There was forty of us livin' in a hole in the road and every night our father would come home and kill us with a broken bottle."


"You had a father?”

“You remember playing with Flubber, a greenish substance that you could mold into different shapes or into a big ball and bounce it like a Superball or Silly Putty.”

“You are either old or fat or both when you can't tie your shoes anymore!”

“You know your getting old when your oldest daughter is getting married this year, you enjoyed (and still do) led zepplin, Pink Floyd, jimmy Hendrix,ect.... you do remember dial phones ( and no call waiting back them) I still have the wide banned high waisted bell bottoms (and still fit in them ;') ) whew. where has time gone? And I cryed when I turned 19. ( 18 was legal drinking age in Texas then and I didn't want to get a day older.) And let's not forget those immunizations that left that round scar on your upper arm. And how about holding the intena of your black and white T.V. so you could get a better picture?”

“Before I retired I was training 2d LT's younger than my oldest son. And I had been in The Marines longer than some of the kids that worked for me had been alive”

“I'm in my 50's & can't wait to retire (soon). I love cell phones, computers, cable modems, GPS & call waiting. I still like 5 speeds over auto trannies. I'm reserved on digital camera's. I like ice making refrigerators & front load washers. I still like wooden (slam) screen doors from my (long ago) youth. I like dyson vacuums, power tools & backhoes.”

“...you poured a 5 cent bag of peanuts into a 6 ounce bottle of Coke.”

“...when you fart dust.”

“You know you're old, when "Getting lucky" means being able to find your car in the parking lot.”

“Yea, and getting a little "action" mean your prune juice is working! LOL”

“...you remember when the doctor made house calls.”

“...when you forget where you parked your car at the train station,


3 days in a row!”

“...when you ask yourself. "did I put on deodorant this morning?"”

“Damnit! I think I forgot to do that this morning”

“... when .... when ... I forgot, what was the question again?”

“Deodorant - what's that? is that one of those DDX things?”

“... when you can remember the names of your prescription drugs but not your kids.”

“...when you re-marry to get on a good health plan. Money is a bonus, looks are optional.”

“_you remember all TV sets being just black and white viewing.

_you remember all movies were just in black and white.”

“I didn't know which movies were in color because my folks refused to buy color TVs for a long time.”

“I didn't know that TVs or movies existed because my parents stapled my eyes shut.”