| You know you're getting old when ...
Posted: 9/24/2009 9:02:54 AM | When you had to wait until the holidays to watch any of the Charlie Brown Specials because there was no vhs tapes or dvds.
You remember when you went to your friends house so you could watch Miami Vice(because your folks thought you were to young to watch that show..
MTV showed music videos.
You only had to be 16 to smoke.
Some of your neighbors who own property in your neighborhood were born in the 1980's..LOL.
Bands actually wrote their own music and played instruments.
People call you sir...
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Posted: 9/26/2009 11:53:53 AM | I know I'm getting old when I look at my doxie, now almost 10, and realize that he's going grey around the mouth and on the waning days of his life. That makes me sad...
on another note: also know I'm old when an adorable 20 year old tries to pick me up and all I can think about is how much he reminds me of my son and how he should be in bed at that hour. | |
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Posted: 9/29/2009 6:48:02 PM | I dunno...I guess I felt kind of old when my gay step-son introduced me to his new roomie...who is my age. After the usual "fatherly" questions, like "What brought you here from there? Where do you work? Do you have kids?" the guy actually called me 'sir'.I mean...we are contemporaries. Ok...I don't want the step-kids getting hurt in a relationship and all and I'm NOT their dad and they are all grown up...but still...the nerve of the guy! Just had to hug him! Knobette laughed her azz off...as did her son. They are supposed to be here for Thanksgiving...hope they make it! (No...I didn't 'come on strong' and they knew I was just teasing a bit.)
How about telling them about actually smoking IN a hospital. I don't think they believed me.
How about spending all day outside building a go-cart for a single run down a steep slope...that wound up with small injuries and a busted go-cart...but it was fun! | |
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Posted: 9/29/2009 8:03:03 PM | When i start out telling my kids a story "when i was a kid"
1. we had to stay outside to play
2. we didnt have cool toys
3. Our favorite thing was a rope.
4. and we didnt back talk or we'd get our mouth smacked...
the music though, it takes me back but i believe it bridges the age gap. Example me and my son (15) stayed up all night listening to music that i listened to growing up and some other older stuff.... it was a common connection we had. And he knew most of the music.... COOL!!! oh ya, thats OLD too, Right? | |
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Posted: 9/29/2009 8:49:36 PM | You know what the series "Dark Shadows" is...
You can remember when gas was below $1 ...
You know who and what Def Leopard is...
You can remember when video recorders were Beta
You remember the advent of color television LOL
You also know what "Lost In Space" was
You remember the phase where it was really hard to tell the guys from the girls | |
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| You know you're getting old when ...
Posted: 11/15/2009 5:05:28 AM | when I have to explain Knight Rider
remember Smoking in the mall
when I am out and think everyone looks like babies
when I think how much less respect kids seem to have for authority figures,
seeing people dressed up in the 80s style for a party
knowing there was a point in time when a parent could correct a childs behaviour and not be a bad parent, seems backwards now,
remembering the first time we got cable. | |
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Posted: 11/15/2009 7:43:55 AM | | When I found my old "Pong" game that must have cost $100. My kids both looked at me with that horror movie face as if to say "Dad, we didn't know you were THAT old!" | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 10:09:37 AM | I knew I was old when I could remember:
life before Windows (I still use Windows 3.1 keyboard shortcuts)
What the UHF/VHF televesion bands were
Black & White TV
Upgrading to cable for the first time
Green Commodore 64
Using pliers to flip an Apple II floppy disk because the program was "THAT huge"
Calculating everything by hand at that being NORMAL
When solar-powered calculators were the new fad
Tie-dye shirts
The Neon color craze
Teased hair
Bushy bikini zones
Female armpit hair in movies/tv
Text-based video games (e.g. "You walk down a corridor, you see a fork in the road, do you want to go: a) Left? b) Right or c) Backwards?") | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 11:49:00 AM | | took my daughter to see nin last summer, while we were then she asked if i had ever seen them before i said sure a few years ago, then went a googled the concert when i got home because i couldn't remeber exactly how many years...it was 18 | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 12:46:12 PM | | when i run into old students i had em when they were 10 now they r 18 ... when my sons were trying to get me to play their 360 and i told em to wait and i went and got my atari system out ...(they almost rolled their eyes like wow mom is old)...when i try to use the new cell phones and start reminscing about the good old days where we had to go home to make calls... | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 1:04:34 PM | | When that balloon boy a few weeks ago was supposidly off flying in what looked like the space ship from the movie Flight of the Navigator. And yet nobody knew what I was talking about, even when I told them that Carrie from Sex in the City was in that movie. | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 2:01:18 PM |
Please, some kid calls me Ma'am at the gym I go to. It makes me want to punch him in the adam's apple every freaking day.
Yeah. Reach over and squeeze his zit. | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 2:58:46 PM | Maybe not a big thing for a non-asian, but...
No longer being asked for ID going into a bar. Wait, maybe it isn't such a bad thing looking over 21! | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 4:06:30 PM | ^^^^and I thought you burned your bra long ago!
You know you're getting old when your kids friends ask if this is your grandpa!
[where's my grecian formula]  | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 6:02:48 PM | When my kid asked me what the black circles framed on the wall at Cracker Barrel were there for.
I asked 3 times before she walked over and pointed at them. LP's... Records!...
She didn't know what a record was... I still remember the playing little 45's... | |
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| You know you're getting old when ...
Posted: 11/16/2009 9:31:40 PM | when you have to explain what the phrase "sounding like a broken record" means.
When you realize the kids living in the dorms were less than 2 years old (if they were even born) when you graduated from high school.
When you have to call the kids to explain how to operate an electronic device because you can't make heads or tails out of it.
When you remember taking 2 quarters to the store and leaving with a candy bar and a can of pop.
When you could $5 worth of gas in the car and actually go somewhere.
When the kids start a sentence with "Hey Mom, you lived back in the 70s (or 80s)......"
When the kids laugh cause you text 5-10 words per minute if you're lucky. | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 9:45:17 PM | When your kids friends annoy you, and then you think back and realize that they are just like you were at that age.
When you ask a younger co-worker if they remember a tv show, and they give you a funny look, and you realize that they were about two years old when it was airing. | |
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Posted: 11/16/2009 11:56:50 PM | when you start reciting things that you promised yourself you'd never do out loud when you were older....
even worse, remining yourself of a parent you have | |
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Posted: 11/17/2009 12:47:45 AM | Reasons I feel old:
Because I always have to ask people what their internet abbreviations stand for.
Because I always think those abbreviations are stupid when I learn what they mean. (I cringe every time I read "lol", and I think "what, you don't have shit better to say, so you wanna tell me when to laugh?")
Because I hate the fact that everybody uses the word "like" 20 times per minute when they talk, and people see this as normal. (I remember when people first started doing this ... I was in sixth grade, and I hated it then too.)
Because I can't listen to any of the radio stations for more than 10 minutes at a time, and I live in a major metro area that is one of the biggest radio markets in the world. The hip hop stations play Gucci Mane or Lil Wayne every 5 songs, and The rock stations play nothing but alterna-crap. The r n b stations play an R Kelly song every 9 minutes.
Because I'm one of the only people I know without an Ipod.
Because I seem to fart at least a hundred times a day.
Because the last time I went to a club on "old school" night and heard songs from five years ago, I thought "What the hell? This isn't old school!"
Because when my nephew is watching today's cartoons, I shake my head and reminisce about Tom & Jerry.
Because the last time a really attractive woman in a bar showed interest, I just thought to myself: "Hmm, she is drunk as hell, and judging by what she has to say, she would be nothing but a headache if I got involved with her in any way."
Because I hate "reality" tv shows.
Because I work with a lot of very good looking women, but have absolutely no interest in any of them.
Because on a Friday night its far more tempting to watch Law & Order or CSI reruns than it is to go out. | |
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Posted: 11/17/2009 1:30:31 AM | You know you're getting old when...
You remember T.V. stations use to go off the air at midnight or 1 am. And Play the national anthem every night.
You remember T.V. stations didn't come on the air till 2pm and there was that test pattern on just before the station came on.
You remember T.V.'s that had this little white dot that stayed on the screen after you turned it off.
You remember TV's had tubes that would go bad.
You remember only 3 networks and PBS. And the Watergate hearings were on every freaking channel.
You ask kids about the "little rascals", "three stooges", "Abbot and Costello", "the Lone Ranger", or "Captain Kangaroo" and they don't know what you are talking about.
You remember the oil crisis and gas rationing from the 70's.
When Sesame Street is the same age as you are.
When your younger cousins kids are starting college.
When you wore polyester suits and thought it was cool.
When people wore coat and ties to just about every event.
Remember coke machines that served glass bottles and had a little stand next to it for the empties.
Remember when cartoons were only on Saturday Mornings.
Remember when cable first came to town and you turned the channel with a box that was connected to the T.V. with a long wire.
Remember when porn only existed as magazines.
Steel cans with tabs you ripped off to open.
Russia and Communism were viewed as a real threat and not just villains for movies, books, or video games.
Remember when microwaves had 2 buttons Heat and defrost.
Remember when digital watches first came out and were expensive.
Remember when the largest theater in town had 2 movie screens.
Remember when theater seats where comfortable.
Remember when people could smoke in a movie theater or on a plane.
You feel old explaining culture icons like pet rocks, lava lamps, strobe lights, roller disco, Saturday Night Fever, Happy Days, The Fonz, Archie Bunker.....
When radio stations had live and local Disc Jockeys. A.M. played music and not talk or sports.
When C.B. radios and Ham radios were the only way to talk live or "chat" with people far away.
When there was only one phone company.
Feel old when you could go to the beach all day get sunburned and not care. | |
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Posted: 11/17/2009 6:45:48 AM | You remember envying the rich kid in junior high as he showed off his brand new TI-2500 pocket calculator-the one that ran for about 15 minutes on 4 AA batteries.
You remember getting home from school to find mom watching the only show she watched all day-this new quiz show called Jeopardy.
In your first programming class you remember feeling Oh-So-Superior to the data processing students who stored their programs on punch cards while you used the much more modern punch tape.
When home NFL games were blacked out regardless of whether they were sold out or not.
When an auto tune-up meant plugs, points and condenser. | |
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| You know you're getting old when ...
Posted: 11/17/2009 6:57:38 AM |
You know you're getting old when.. ...
When you look at your parent(s), and you realize that you have switched "roles". You become the "parent", as they are getting older/slower/with ailments, etc................ | |
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