You're Know You're Old When

[instymp]

and donut wholes were something delicious at Dunkin Donuts

 

[voorhees]

Now that I'm in the over 40 crowd and the 10+ years married, I get it, but I work and manage a print center and campus post office. And we hire work study students for part time work and are usually cute young college age girls. Its nice to be around them for sure, but its a take in small doses kind of thing for sure.

However, I can live with that!

 

[keith929]

I knew I was getting old when I turned on one of the top 40 radio stations and not only did I not recognize a single tune but couldn't understand a word they were saying.

 

[baronsamedi]

I went to the '82 World's Fair. I think I was in the 4th grade. I also went to the '84 World's Fair in New Orleans!

 

[nsfisher]

Geez, 1964 seems like a long time ago now.

 

[mluyckx]

It's worse when your daughters and all their friends are scolding you for calling anyone "hot". With three daughters in their twenties and all their friends that I've known since they were in elementary school,trust me... I feel older each day ;-)

On the other hand, they love coming over still to this day and hang out. Guess it means we did something right for the neighborhood kids :puffpipe:

 

[colcolt]

ha ha I assume you are talking about Knoxville colcolt. I wasn't born until 88.

Yep, and it was right down town two blocks away from where I worked. I'd fill out a leave slip and take off many times around lunch and stay there the rest of the day taking beaucoup pictures. I had lots of leave time or annual leave as it was called. I took shots at night with my big 6x7 Pentax using transparency film and my trusty five pound tripod. I hated to see it over. It lasted from May till October. I saw Red Skelton there during that summer. What a great guy he was.
I don't think a man's mind gets much past 25. I still look at gals in their 20's like I was there too but what hurts is they're not looking back anymore.

Geez, 1964 seems like a long time ago now.

It was. That was the year I graduated from high school!

 

[photoman13]

My dad was born in 1964 lol. But I wish I could have went to that. I see people wearing their dad's world's fair shirt all the time. Sounded like a really cool thing to be able to go to.

 

[lazydog]

You mention where you were when Jack Kennedy got shot & someone asks you who Jack Kennedy was. or.... you look at one of your briars and realize that you bought it over 40 years ago. The worst, you are thinking that your present vehicle may just be the last one you will ever have to buy.

 

[igloo]

You remember when your family got its first color tv and it took four grown men to bring it in the house . Your first radio took a nine volt battery and only got am . Your mother defrosted meat on the kitchen counter .Your parents dropped you off at the sunday mantinee and you could walk home safely . You got a Pong game . Your dad had a shingle hatchet and used it . When gay meant you were happy . All the cars were over twenty feet long . You had a rotary dial phone .The only time the house was locked up is when you went on vacation .Your mother would make you help the neighbor take the grocerys into the house .You know what points are .Playground equipment was made out of steel and could give you third degree burns in the summer .The only choice for sneakers was black or white .Tennis had wooden rackets .All the woman had shaved eyebrows and colored them in with a pencil .Window frames were made of wood . Fruit had to be in season to get it .Soda came in glass bottles . And last but not least you could smoke anywhere you damn well pleased .

 

[revs]

You are old when you could drink from a garden hose and not worry. When your curfew was the street lights turning on. When you shared a telephone line with the neighbors and it was a rotary. And Prince Albert still came in a can.
And at Halloween, the neighbors would give out home made cookies or fruit or popcorn balls and we ate them without question. I miss those days.