You know you're old when...

Esteban · 10-31-2021, 01:48 PM

You used this medieval contraption...

dscabra · 10-31-2021, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

And, more importantly, for these.

Ahh! The true meaning of "pay-as-you-go".

Patton250 · 10-31-2021, 06:27 PM

You know you’re old when,

you don’t care when a manufacturer removes technology from a product.

grannyknot · 10-31-2021, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Lady Jane

When you always kept a dime or quarter in your purse/ wallet.

A dime? We all kept a piece of wire about 4" long in our wallets, if you put the wire through one of the receiver holes and touched the other end to metal case of the phone you would get a free call.

M_Six · 10-31-2021, 07:40 PM

On Halloween you walked around your own neighborhood with just your friends and it was after dark.

Wifey and I just came back from our usual walk out of our neighborhood and across to the McMansion neighborhood. Holy Shit. The streets were lined with cars and SUVs and there was a steady line of more traffic weaving through them with some large ATVs mixed in. Not sure how that's safer than having kids walk. I doubt more than 25% of those people were from that neighborhood. I guess it's a thing now to pile the kids into the family vehicle and drive them around to as many neighborhoods as possible?

DenverSteve · 10-31-2021, 07:46 PM

You chase after rogue leaves on your lawn........ more than the mrs.........

3.0L · 10-31-2021, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

And, more importantly, for these.

I saw the following scribbled on a stall wall many years (decades) ago:

"Here I sit broken hearted, paid a nickel and only farted."

Buug959 · 10-31-2021, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

I saw the following scribbled on a stall wall many years (decades) ago:

"Here I sit broken hearted, paid a nickel and only farted."

"Yesterday I took a chance, saved a nickel and shit my pants."

DenverSteve · 11-01-2021, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Onesie

.....Can't fathom how people drive at night with screens on max white brightness in front of them. I guess they don't drive?

Ha....you know you're really getting old......... when you don't drive at night.

Hopefully I've got decades before that. However, that's why I live in the city - so I can walk or bike almost anywhere.

DenverSteve · 11-01-2021, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Lady Jane

When you always kept a dime or quarter in your purse/ wallet.
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What do you mean "when" there missy........? (Shaking cane at computer screen) Still do.

Lady Jane · 11-01-2021, 12:35 PM

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Esteban · 11-01-2021, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Lady Jane

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That looks like the oil can that was used on the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.

UncleWede · 11-01-2021, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

That looks like the oil can that was used on the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.

Not only did you correctly identify the device, you were also able to put it in context of a period-correct colorized talkie!!!

I'll get off your lawn now.

Esteban · 11-01-2021, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

Not only did you correctly identify the device, you were also able to put it in context of a period-correct colorized talkie!!!

I'll get off your lawn now.

Yeah, very effective when the movie went from black & white Kansas to Technicolor Oz and then back again.

Oetzie97 · 11-01-2021, 04:27 PM

... you start getting up early without an alarm.

Tommy-G · 11-01-2021, 04:31 PM

When you can't remember what you had for dinner last night

dscabra · 11-01-2021, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Oetzie97

... you start getting up early without an alarm.

Because laying in the same spot without moving hurts too much to sleep through.

wdb · 11-01-2021, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by dscabra

Because laying in the same spot without moving hurts too much to sleep through.

You should mattress shop. Wirecutter just did a whole thing on mattresses, very informative. Also you might think about pillow;, as I get creakier I find that I actually care about them where I never did before.

dscabra · 11-02-2021, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by wdb

You should mattress shop. Wirecutter just did a whole thing on mattresses, very informative. Also you might think about pillow;, as I get creakier I find that I actually care about them where I never did before.

My commitment was more for humor than my personal life experience. I have a memory foam mattress and very comfortable goose down pillow. I don't compromise on pillows anymore. My latest pair cost $300!

Janchu88 · 11-02-2021, 11:33 AM

... after one evening of drinking it takes several days to recover

3798j · 11-02-2021, 06:20 PM

You know your old (and a Pennsylvania resident) if you remember the bars not selling beer or liquor until the voting polls closed on election days...Bars would put sheets over the liquor bottles and paper cups on the beer tap handles.

3.0L · 11-02-2021, 08:39 PM

You know the real meaning of, "Put out."

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