You know you're old when....

[Dustbuster]

you start throwing dollar bills at 2 women dancing with each other

[CQB Elite]

.....when you start keeping a plastic urinal in your car for really quick pit stops......

[billyscott]

When you first learned to use a phone, and you picked up the handset, and an operator said "number please". 

[Caster]

When your user name is Oh Shoot.

[dralarms]

When you see casters name and it reminds you of the time your mom gave you caster oil.

[billyscott]

Caster oil reminds me, you're old if you know what paregoric is and were ever forced to take it.

 

[Caster]

Caster oil reminds me, you're old if you know what paregoric is and were ever forced to take it.

Is that anything like Joggin in a Jug? I remember that!

[Schadenfreude]

Caster oil reminds me, you're old if you know what paregoric is and were ever forced to take it.

Paregoric - I think my mother must've had a 50 gal drum of that stuff

[Dane]

...when, in order to pull a double shift, you need a nap in between. (Which I did exactly that today)


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[Tedro2022]

... when you yell at a kid for riding his bike across your front yard...


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[Varmint]

Paregoric - I think my mother must've had a 50 gal drum of that stuff

 

There was always a bottle at the house.

It had it's own particular smell that if you've ever had to take it, you would recognize immediately.

 

Seeing the cars that were new when we were teenagers, and wished we could afford, now have antique tags on them.

[Transplanted Hoosier]

When you try to explain to your grandkids what a party line was.

[Guest kingarmory]

When you used to drive or shoot for hours because it was cheaper than doing just about anything else.

[Guest PapaB]

Yea, I remember Church keys, just don't remember drinkin' any brews with'm. I hated them damn thangs. Made it hard to get to my sardines and mustard.

Church keys were can and bottle openers, not the key used to open cans of sardines, coffee, spam etc. The key you're thinking of turned an ordinary can into a weapon, those boogers were sharp. Remembering those keys makes you old too.

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Church+key

church key

noun Slang.

a small metal can opener having a sharp triangular pointed end for punching holes in the top of a beverage can, as of beer.

Edited December 10, 2013 by PapaB

[DaveS]

 

Dave

[Sidinman]

........when someone says you remember that joint, and they were talking about a bad place to be.

Edited December 10, 2013 by Sidinman

[Caster]

When everything you have is falling. Falling out, falling off, falling down or falling apart.

[Good_Steward]

when you remember black & white tv only

when telephones had rotary dials, & we had party lines

I remember buying gas for .34 cents

 

Or when your TV weighed 600lbs and got three stations.....when you were able to get the dial to stick halfway... 

[Guest Bonedaddy]

 

Church keys were can and bottle openers, not the key used to open cans of sardines, coffee, spam etc. The key you're thinking of turned an ordinary can into a weapon, those boogers were sharp. Remembering those keys makes you old too.

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Church+key

church key

noun Slang.

a small metal can opener having a sharp triangular pointed end for punching holes in the top of a beverage can, as of beer.

 

Oh...ok. Hell, I just called them can openers. I always heard church keys but thought they were the roll up things. Guess no one ever actually showed me. There were always a few of'm 'round the house. And yea, a sardine can top could be used to skin a man. Ya know, beer was a lot easier to drink when you used one of them keys on it. You could put  a big ol' air vent for lettin' it drain like a pipe.

Edited December 10, 2013 by Bonedaddy

[bart305]

When children taking a history class ask you to help them study, and you lived through this "history"

[Guest PapaB]

When children taking a history class ask you to help them study, and you lived through this "history"

As an adult. :stunned:

[Guest Cazador]

I started reading this thread and had to take a nap to finish it. Unnn what was the question? Can someone tell me how to get home?

[Sidinman]

you ride the roads on bicycles, picking up soda bottles to carry to the store for the deposits. So you could buy candy & sodas.

[79troublehead]

When sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous.

[DaveS]

I have to add this one in. I've been a Civil War reenactor for many years, and my Grandkids volunteer me to come to school and talk to their classes about "the war", and how "their pawpaw fought Yankees"! Talk about feeling old now? lol

 

Dave

Edited December 12, 2013 by DaveS