Ya Know You're Old When....

[Misty_Morning]

Misty,

Do you remember the LED Calculators? I do.

Cat

I remember in grad school writing LED programs for the scientific instruments.


Yikes.....I feel so old.

 

[galaxygoddess]

You know you're getting older when you look at a 21 year old and think they are children.

Cat

I do this, and I turned 24 feb 1...



Oh, when you see a 4 year old excited over underdog, and remember being in her place....

 

[Misty_Morning]

When you see the birthdate of a co-worker and they were born AFTER you completed university.

HAHAHAHAHA!

Know this!

As a Contractor for the DoD....one of my "boss's" (military dude) was born the year I graduated from high school!

 

[slyc_willie]

HAHAHAHAHA!

Know this!

As a Contractor for the DoD....one of my "boss's" (military dude) was born the year I graduated from high school!

You know you're old when you card someone born in 1987 . . . and they're legally old enough to drink.

Or when you get an email notifying you that your 20th high school reunion is coming up . . . .

 

[SlickTony]

When dishy young guys look through you and past you and call you ma'am.

 

[Misty_Morning]

When dishy young guys look through you and past you and call you ma'am.

Some dude called me ma'am when I was 20......most distressing.

 

[SeaCat]

I remember in grad school writing LED programs for the scientific instruments.


Yikes.....I feel so old.

I remember when DOS 1 was groundbreaking programing.

I still have and remember how to use a Slipstick.

I still remember when there weren't coffee shops. If you were on the road and wanted a cup of coffee you stoped in a diner.

I remember the old Root Beer Stands.

If you got it on with your neighbors daughter the only things you had to worry about were her becoming pregnant or her Daddy.

I remember when having your ten year old shovel the drive wasn't Child Abuse, and having same ten year old come to rescue your butt on an open cab tractor in the middle of a blizzard was accepted.

Hell I remeber when the Principle of the school didn't batt an eyelid when you store your rifle in his office. He knew you were running a trap line and hunting to and from school.

Cat

 

[Ǽltya]

You remember when there were only 3 channels on the TV, 4 if you got PBS.

I remember when my sister and I were the remote controls.

 

[feeeriek]

when schools where still segregatied

 

[Stegral]

when you have watched two cars be tagged as "spontaneously combustable"
The lovable Pinto & the Fiero....
both have a tendancy to catch fire if rear ended...

when floppy discs (literally) were enough to store everything.
My first computer was a commadore 64...

I still have my "scientific calculator" from highschool.
we were allowed to use them for exams only, not everyday use.
I remember when "homework" was a punishment, not status quo.

I remember when gas was 45 cents a litre.... (now $1.125)
I remember cars without computers, they ran fine, still do if you can find one.
those ones last ALOT longer than new cars...

I loved the rubix cube... do you remember the pyramid that came out too???
I remember "boom boxes" or ghetto blasters that were huge & loud.
I remember a sony walkman that had AM/FM & played tapes was high tech...

I remember playing outside with the warning of "Be home before dark"
I remember not having to inspect hallowe'en candy, ever...
I remember going to certain houses because THEY made carmel apples...

I remember helping out around the house happily because I earned my money.
I can remember TV's that had 2 dials & rabbit ears... no remotes or cable...
coming home from a fight after school got you grounded or drug over to the other kids house to "chat" with that kids partents to be sure it "all got straightened out" so it didn't happen again

I remember when I was taught & learned to respect my elders.
I remember when police officers were respected & not shot at.
I remember when pot & acid were the "heavy" drugs.

My first son (now 18) is enjoying motley crew, judas priest, black sabbath & many others thanks to him thinking it was new when he heard them on different video game backgrounds... & cringed when he realized it wasn't new music to me...lol... but he still likes alot of the music I grew up with & we swap songs all the time now...

(Long hair still makes me drool.... gawd I miss the 80's)

 

[slyc_willie]

I remember programming in Basic on a Commodore 64 . . . .

 

[feeeriek]

daktari

 

[jomar]

OMG Mine are into the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the Doors right now.

My kids love the good stuff too.

Old when they don't laugh at my jokes for the third time.

 

[jomar]

I remember programming in Basic on a Commodore 64 . . . .

Punch cards.

 

[SlickTony]

I remember running through the fog when Mosquito Control sent the fog trucks around, not realizing that running through clouds of insecticide probably wasn't good for you.

I remember when you could actually sit on the grass in your own yard and not get up itching in a thousand places due to chiggers and redbugs.

 

[slyc_willie]

Punch cards.

Yep. Remember that, too.

I served in Clinton's Army.

 

[LoquaciousLady]

When the best thing about a relative working for IBM was getting a pre-release copy of OS/2.

When you still remember how to program in Logo or Basic or Cobol.

When you're on the phone with tech support and they tell you to go to Start-->Run-->cmd and type by the "blinky C thingie" and you explain patiently that it is the DOS command prompt.

When your kids want to go shopping for the newest trend - spandex leggings and fingerless lace gloves - and you offer to lend them your old ones.

When you remember the opening to "Social Disease" on the "Slippery When Wet" album as the dirtiest thing you'd ever heard.

When your keyboard pre-dates your children and runs through three different adapters to plug into your CPU because you don't like these newfangled "soft touch" keyboards - you need the click of a manual typewriter to feel like you're typing.

You remember when "dialing" the phone actually meant turning the dial of the numbers.

You remember The Simpsons before they had their own show.

You still have a Rick Springfield concert button on your denim jacket at the back of the closet.

The local museum contacts you about borrowing half the contents of your garage for a "history of computers" exhibit but you won't let them have the Trash 80 because you need it as a door stop.

You remember smoking your first cigarette - bought from a vending machine because you were afraid of getting caught buying them any other way.

You're still annoyed about when the legal drinking age went up to 21 because you'd already been drinking for a year and had to stop!

 

[feeeriek]

phone numbers started with letters

 

[Misty_Morning]

Punch cards.

heehee...

I have no idea what you're talkin bout

 

[DesertPirate]

OK, gonna really "date" myself.

You remember when there were only 3 channels on the TV, 4 if you got PBS.

You had a "mobile phone" that was the size of a man's shoe.

You remember sitting in gas lines, only on odd or even days.

You remember when the Rubik's cube came out.

I admit to all of the above
But I worked at the gas station that had lines as a senior in High School
I first felt old when I heard a John Lennon song as elevator music

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Punch cards.

I used one at my first job.

You are the only person that remembers rotary phones. (I still have one in my kitchen, working).

 

[slyc_willie]

phone numbers started with letters

Okay, that beats them all . . .

 

[Misty_Morning]

phone numbers started with letters

Ding, ding ding.....

We have a winner!

 

[DesertPirate]

does anyone remember a four finger bag? or a two or three?

Jimmy Buffett wrote the story of my life, "Pirate Looks at Forty" when I was 20

Now 51 and it really came pretty damn close

As far as the bag sizes? Used to live 30 min. off the border to the South, nuff said

 

[feeeriek]

Ding, ding ding.....

We have a winner!

what did i win huh huh