Posted on 02/12/2016 7:15:02 AM PST by gop4lyf
That was 16 years ago for me and I’m not old yet.
75 is the new 60 ...
Your wife gives good presents
I was able to drink legally when you were born. Old my butt!
Me too!
That, dear PROCON, is a serious TMI.
Ha...my son is older than you! Enjoy your 40s...for many people it’s when they start getting comfortable in their skin.
Depends on what she wants you to do with it...
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Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: — Do you remember Slow Food ??
Do you remember??
‘Someone asked the other day,
‘We didn’t have fast food
> when I was growing up” I informed him.
‘All the food was slow.’
‘C’mon, seriously. Where did you eat?’
‘It was a place called ‘at Home,’’ I explained !
‘Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the
dining room table, and if I didn’t like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did
like it.’
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer
serious internal damage, so I didn’t tell him the part about how I had to
have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I
figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a
golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had
something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck.
Or maybe it was Sears Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe
he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never
had heard of soccer.
I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed,
(slow)
We didn’t have a television in our house until I was 11. It was, of course, black and
white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem
and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a
locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 19 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called ‘pizza pie.’ When I bit into
it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered
itself against my chin and burned that, too. It’s still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the
living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and
make sure some people you didn’t know weren’t already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered
newspapers—my brother delivered a newspaper,
six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to
keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite
customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change.
His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home
on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There
were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy
viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of
these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don’t blame me if they
bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn’t what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother’s house (she died in December) and he
brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper
with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter
had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something.
I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to ‘sprinkle’ clothes
with because we didn’t have steam irons back then. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with table side jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the > telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV
shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels...[if you were fortunate)00
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H green stamps
16. Hi-fi’s
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins !!!
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You’re still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don’t tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You’ re older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the bestparts of my life.
Yep, 40 was the last age I still had a gall bladder, lol.
I couldn't ski at 15. Coordination, agility, and balance all conspired against me. Gravity was the only one who'd have me, and he was a Sadist. Hitting the slopes at 65, 75, or 85, would just mean I wouldn't see 66, 76, or 86, respectively.
Did I write this and forget that I did?
Looking back now, I’ll just bet that your 30’s seemed like a blur
Gall bladders are so yesterday! ; )
20 years flew by huh? It all goes downhill from here. LOL!
yikes!
You neglected to mention metal tins that required a key to open. Yes, I am ancient and moving rapidly to the archives
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