How to tell if you are old.......
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?
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
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What's a cassette tape?
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When the music that was on the weekly top ten is now on the classic or oldies station.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Power brakes, steering, windows were optional on new cars.
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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.... 😆
@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.3 -
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
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When it didn't hurt.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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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.
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@d_blades said:
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.Or the extra channels were one another dial on the TV.
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.3 -
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.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain4 -
When you sniffed the mimeographed tests in class.
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@YankeeMan said:
When you sniffed the mimeographed tests in class.I can smell that thought.🤣
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.4 -
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
How do you like my profile pic Taborski? @matkn2935 -
Laughing about the guy in his 50's who thinks he's old and has aches and pains.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis7 -
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 Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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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.
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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.
I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...1 -
More hair in your ears than on your scalp. Sofa King wrong...
@GuitardedHey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?4 -
typing was actually taught on type writers
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You know you're old when you get Furniture Disease; that's when your chest sinks into your drawers.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis9 -
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@Yakster said:
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.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.In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.2 -
When you stop putting individual candles on you birthday cake and go with the two digits of your actual age.
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Remembering staring at the clock and waiting for the tile to flip.
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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.
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Thinking how convenient it was waiting for a TV dinner to heat up in the oven in under 45 minutes.
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Ahh... the good ol days.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter0 -
You guys are so old goodness
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