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How to tell if you are old.......
0patience
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You remember a time.....
Before cassette tapes.
Before personal computers, internet and "You got mail."
When the car stereo would cut out driving under an overpass.
When a VCR was reel to reel and you needed a cart to haul it.
When any phone number with several zeros was a pain.
When you had to pull the choke and let the engine warm up or you weren't going anywhere.
When you could dial 4 numbers to call someone local.
When you picked up the phone to make sure no one else was on the line.
What can you add?
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Wylaff said:
Atmospheric pressure and crap.
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What's a cassette tape?
When the music that was on the weekly top ten is now on the classic or oldies station.
Power brakes, steering, windows were optional on new cars.
Hate to break it to you Tony, but if you understand what "you got mail" is in the first place, you're still old, even if you can't remember a time before it.... 😆
When you had to put a cassette tape adapter into your car stereo and plug it into your CD player, and if you hit a crack in the road the music would stop for 10 seconds
When it didn't hurt.
Headlight switch was on the floorboard, along with the starter or maybe the windshield washer pump, that you actually pumped.
There were only two TV channels both B/W.
Ethyl.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Or the extra channels were one another dial on the TV.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
When the high-tech electronics I wanted for Christmas consisted of a Walkie-Talkie set and a Transistor Radio with one of those ear thingy's so you could listen in private.
When people played chess.
When you didn't know a kid who couldn't ride a bicycle.
You remember when every kid in your neighborhood was outside playing, every chance they got.
IF you can remember when there were only two genders.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
When you sniffed the mimeographed tests in class.
I can smell that thought.🤣
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
First car had an 8 track player. Only had 2 albums. Back in black and Cat Scratch Fever. LOL. After getting tired of that over and over and over, I spent around $100 and upgraded to a cassette tape player! That was my life savings back then, and likely doubled the value of the car. LOL
Atari 2600 was all the rage!
Laughing about the guy in his 50's who thinks he's old and has aches and pains.
I knew someone who had a reel-to-reel stereo.
When board games actually got played. Sleeping in the rear deck of the back windshield on the highway as a kid. The tv remote had one button, basically a garage door opener. When cable tv came out it had two channels, A & B.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
You used to be able to buy cassette tapes that had “singles” on them , just two songs on them,… and they were cheaper than full album.
Which guy would that be?
Bias-ply tires. Having to feel your way in the dark to change the fuse that popped every Christmas Eve. Vacuum tube testers in gas stations and grocery stores. Steel engine oil cans and wiper blades on display racks between gas pumps. When “five dollars worth of regular” would fill the tank in my parent’s station wagon. CB radios in everyone’s car.
More hair in your ears than on your scalp. Sofa King wrong...
@Guitarded
typing was actually taught on type writers
This thread is making me feel young. Vacuum tube testers were getting hard to find when I was trying to fix the junk CB radio I salvaged.
You know you're old when you get Furniture Disease; that's when your chest sinks into your drawers.
I got my first TV, cause one of the tubes blew and the guy didn't want to get it fixed.
A 12" black and white that I pulled the tubes, went down to the local grocery store, put them in the tester machine, found the bad one, bought one and went home and had TV in my bedroom.
I was stylin.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
When you stop putting individual candles on you birthday cake and go with the two digits of your actual age.
Remembering staring at the clock and waiting for the tile to flip.
Adjusting the rabbit ears and finding the sweet spot and then standing there to watch your UHF show as to to not lose the signal.
Thinking how convenient it was waiting for a TV dinner to heat up in the oven in under 45 minutes.
Ahh... the good ol days.
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
You guys are so old goodness