You know you're old when...

[Eltronin]

You rode on the tail board of the fire engine to calls, You picked up the phone to make a call and had to make sure no one else on the party line was using it, Rotary phones, using the card catalog in the library.

 

[cdbd3rd]

You know you're old when you'll pay good money for things you used to consider punishment... like getting spanked by a middle-age women in a nun's habit

Dunno if that's the thread-winning post, but it's certainly top 5!

 

[Baahb3]

When the cashier asks for your phone number and you reply with 867-5309 and they just enter it without question.

 

[Grimstad]

...when riding in the back of the pickup meant standing in the bed and holding onto the edge of the roof pointing out woodchucks to your cousin

 

[Deamon81]

When your Character level was 10 max in DDO

 

[cdbd3rd]

When your Character level was 10 max in DDO

Oof.

Too soon, man. Too soon.

...when riding in the back of the pickup meant standing in the bed and holding onto the edge of the roof pointing out woodchucks to your cousin

Running down country roads standing on the back bumper holding on to the tailgate. Why else was the back bumper flat on top if not for standing on?

 

[Grimstad]

Running down country roads standing on the back bumper holding on to the tailgate. Why else was the back bumper flat on top if not for standing on?

Exactly.

... when you remember what vertical and horizontal controls were

 

[Chiefvisigoth]

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...

I actually grew up in the 60s. Missed the first assassination early in the decade. My dad was in the Air Force, and we were in Istanbul. Remember the others in '68. Remember watching all the riots and the Vietnam War on the 6 O'clock News. Also, drive-in movies, as a kid, which always seemed to be Elvis movies.

 

[ACJ97F]

You recall pre-transition when the DDO team fixed reported bugs. [Still looking at you, U37 filigree.]
You could slam down the receiver on a spam call to bust his eardrums.
Playing Wizardry 1-3 on a library computer.

... when you remember pregnancy tests necessitated the sacrifice of a cute fluffy bunny.

Now you have me remembering the M.A.S.H. episode when they operated on Radars rabbit for that.

 

[RangerOne]

I actually grew up in the 60s. Missed the first assassination early in the decade. My dad was in the Air Force, and we were in Istanbul. Remember the others in '68. Remember watching all the riots and the Vietnam War on the 6 O'clock News. Also, drive-in movies, as a kid, which always seemed to be Elvis movies.

I got duped into one Elvis movie. I think it was Viva Las Vegas. Trailers had some monsters but it was just those gosh darn kids playing a prank. My drive in time was mainly Godzilla. Dad was retired Army and I think he enjoyed them as much as I did. When he passed my best friend and I slipped two tiny Toho figures into his pockets as he lay in his casket. Thanks for the memories off topic thread.

 

[Sagastar]

You know you're old when - you started playing DDO the enhancements were in text only, no pictures.

 

[Hobgoblin]

when the person you called old no longer calls you kid!

 

[Grimstad]

When we didn't know Mr. Greenjeans had green jeans because the tv was black and white.

 

[Phoenicis]

You are no longer amused by 'You know you are old when' threads

 

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

You know you're old... when your back goes out more than you do.

 

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

You know you're old when... "getting lucky" means you found your car in the parking lot!

 

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

they had some new clerks they were having to teach them what coin values were and how they added up. Sad but true.

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Holy Cow thats crazy sad. And now pennies have been canned. The entire planet is becoming Amazon.com.

 

[Grimstad]

And I heard they don't teach script writing in school anymore

 

[Buddha5440]

...when you walk like Tim Conway playing "The oldest man" character...or you even know what I mean by that.

 

[DBZ]

And I heard they don't teach script writing in school anymore

They don't everything is a lost art these days is that a good thing only time will tell