You know you're old when...

cdbd3rd

cdbd3rd

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Who grew up having to use an outhouse?

Always a bonus on winter nights when you find one of the dogs sleeping on the hole cover. Warm seat, ftw! :D

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All y'all youngsters crossing this thread later - just let us have this. It's one of the rare times we get to feel good about being this damn old.
 
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DDO Gaming

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Grimstad said:
You fast forward through the love scenes in action movies
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you know you're old when...you can no longer sit in a chair and spend most of your time wailing in bed. Folks there are people who are genuinely old whereas all of you play a fastpaced gaming system called DDO (particularly true if you reaper).

So...stop complaining please. Having a great memory has no relevance to being old. And sure...horomonal changes ocur all the time and things that triggered emotions earlier in your life may no longer interest you as you evolve onto different interests (psychological evolution is also a thing).

So...stop wailing and enjoy life :)(y)
 
Grimstad

Grimstad

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cdbd3rd said:
Who grew up having to use an outhouse?

Always a bonus on winter nights when you find one of the dogs sleeping on the hole cover. Warm seat, ftw! :D

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All y'all youngsters crossing this thread later - just let us have this. It's one of the rare times we get to feel good about being this damn old.
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In the late 60s, my grandparents bought an old farmhouse in PA as a vacation home for a few thousand dollars. It had a beautiful old home on 110 acres with a pond, a huge barn, and a cemetery just off the property that dated to the late 1700s. Not only did it not have a bathroom (we used an outhouse that was occasionally cleaned out by the "honeydipper", but it had no running water (we dipped water in a bucket from the well), no electricity (we used candles), it had a cast iron wood stove, and was heated by a coal furnace in the basement. The times we spent there were the best in my life.
Tremes said:
I am old enough to remember when we had 3 tv stations and at 10 at night there was a message asking do you Know where your children are? Then a 11 pm all the stations would go off the air.
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They'd play the national anthem and then you'd get a test pattern for the rest of the night.
Tremes said:
I am also old enough to remember when I got my draft notice. Only lottery I ever won. Glad I will never win that one again.
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I lucked out on that one. Nixon ended the draft in my junior year. I ended up joining the army anyway.
 
Grimstad

Grimstad

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... you remember gas was around 40 cents a gallon when you got your driver's license

... the drinking age was 18
 
Grim

Grim

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..when you remember being sent to the corner store with a note to pick up a pack of cigs and a 6pack for your dad.... and they sold it to you.
..when you remember after getting the smokes and beer for your dad, he would send you up on the roof to turn and hold the antenna so he could watch Hee-Haw.
..if you remember Hee-Haw.
 
toaf

toaf

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Theo said:
when you find these while cleaning out your closet ....
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those IBM punch cards? those things work great for setting gaps
 
Buddha5440

Buddha5440

"There are some who call me...Tim"
Grim said:
..when you remember being sent to the corner store with a note to pick up a pack of cigs and a 6pack for your dad.... and they sold it to you.
..when you remember after getting the smokes and beer for your dad, he would send you up on the roof to turn and hold the antenna so he could watch Hee-Haw.
..if you remember Hee-Haw.
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Grimstad

Grimstad

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Grim said:
..when you remember being sent to the corner store with a note to pick up a pack of cigs and a 6pack for your dad.... and they sold it to you.
..when you remember after getting the smokes and beer for your dad, he would send you up on the roof to turn and hold the antenna so he could watch Hee-Haw.
..if you remember Hee-Haw.
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yes (except it was mom), yes, and YES!
And remember the number to call is BR-549

... when you remember mom telling you to be home for supper when you ran out the door after breakfast
 
Grimstad

Grimstad

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Grimstad said:
In the late 60s, my grandparents bought an old farmhouse in PA as a vacation home for a few thousand dollars. It had a beautiful old home on 110 acres with a pond, a huge barn, and a cemetery just off the property that dated to the late 1700s. Not only did it not have a bathroom (we used an outhouse that was occasionally cleaned out by the "honeydipper", but it had no running water (we dipped water in a bucket from the well), no electricity (we used candles), it had a cast iron wood stove, and was heated by a coal furnace in the basement. The times we spent there were the best in my life.

They'd play the national anthem and then you'd get a test pattern for the rest of the night.

I lucked out on that one. Nixon ended the draft in my junior year. I ended up joining the army anyway.
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Oh, and I forgot to add, we had a party line. I think it was 2 shorts and a long

... when you remember dialing "0" and you got an actual local young lady who directed your call
 
Grimstad

Grimstad

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... when you remember pregnancy tests necessitated the sacrifice of a cute fluffy bunny.
"can't catch me cause the rabbit done died"
 
Chiefvisigoth

Chiefvisigoth

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Theo said:
when you find these while cleaning out your closet ....
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I know exactly what those are. We had one of those at my college when I took Fortran as an elective. Dropped that course, took more time than my Calculus class trying to debug programs. Loved the printouts for scratch paper, though
 
RangerOne

RangerOne

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Aw you kids and your 1970s.

The 60s was where it was at.

Supercar, Herculoids, Presidential assassinations (learned what mourning meant because they canceled my cartoons for the, well, morning)
Taking your jug of water and blanket (half of one for me, sister had the other half) to school because Cuba was only a hundred miles away
Computers were only in movies for most of us
Dad worked one job, mom stayed home and with four kids we always had hella large Christmas
Saturday night at the movies was a big thing. What, this was at the theater only six years ago?
Those Beatle guys need haircuts

And so it goes...
 
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Tremes

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RangerOne said:
Aw you kids and your 1970s.

The 60s was where it was at.

Supercar, Herculoids, Presidential assassinations (learned what mourning meant because they canceled my cartoons for the, well, morning)
Taking your jug of water and blanket (half of one for me, sister had the other half) to school because Cuba was only a hundred miles away
Computers were only in movies for most of us
Dad worked one job, mom stayed home and with four kids we always had hella large Christmas
Saturday night at the movies was a big thing. What, this was at the theater only six years ago?
Those Beatle guys need haircuts

And so it goes...
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Mom would take us Sat mornings to the local theater and leave us there to watch the cartoons, and morning serials, while she did her grocery shopping. Coke was 10 cents candy bar was 5 cents (and bigger than the $2 bars now days). Gas was 25 cents unless there was a gas war going on then would get down to 19 cents. The guy would come out clean the windshield, air the tires, check the oil and give you a mug, glass, s&h green stamps or something once done.
 
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