Things that make me feel older!

[bearcove]

Getting glasses, again.

[Bad Water Bill]

There you go again.

I have been getting new glasses for well over SIXTY+ years

Making me try to rememember back over 1/2 a century + should be outlawed.

[GLL]

I had a young 19 year old coed join my college class this semester who indicated her mother was 19 when she also took my class 20 years ago. The bad part is her grandmother took my class 40 years ago !

Jerry

[btroj]

Getting older makes me feel older.

Change happens. We can either embrace it and cope or we can get old and bitter. I hate old and bitter.

[Junior1942]

Just yesterday when I bought a 25¢ package of potato chips, and it cost me $1.09.

[Dale in Louisiana]

Dirt.

Yeah, we beta tested dirt for the Army digging foxholes and filing sandbags. Lots of foxholes and a lot more sandbags. I think they have more sandbags than there is dirt.

Now I hear people say things 'older than dirt'. So, just what am I supposed to think? Huh?

Only 62 here. I tell 'em at work, "I'm NOT older than dirt, but I remember when it was still on the pallet.

dale in Louisiana

[Bad Water Bill]

Just yesterday when I bought a 25¢ package of potato chips, and it cost me $1.09.

STOP THAT

Yesterday I was going thru a box of my OLD STUFF and found a fold out postcard of the BUDWEISER team. I picked it up at a show here many years ago. On the back it said place a THREE CENT STAMP HERE.

Who else can remember when the U S Post Office could deliver a 12" X 4 1/2 " card across the country for .03 and turn a profit.

I must be getting REALLY old but don't need to be reminded. I seem to be doing a good job all by myself thank you

[fcvan]

Yup, like finding a box of factory 32-40 in your stuff and seeing the original price was $5.65 which was a lot when minimum wage was still $1.65 or thereabouts.

[Roosters]

When you realize they haven’t made Billy Beer since the 70s

[mold maker]

Post cards used to be "Penny Post Cards", and that included the card and postage. Of course the penny was real copper with wheat heads on the reverse.
I spent many a Sat. at the moves, bought a hot dog, drink and a box of corn, and still had change from my quarter.

[Tom W.]

My youngest grandson graduated High School this past summer and joind the Army. Now my Youngest son, age 33, announced that he and his S.O. are expecting...
And everyone tells me my fiancee looks 38....and I don't!

[looseprojectile]

In my mind I can still see the Ice man delivering ice to an apartment building in south Seattle near Sicks Stadium. With his horse drawn wagon. A lot of it was carried up three flights of stairs.
My sister, born in 1921 thinks she remembers ice cost a dime then.

No one locked their doors and he walked right in and put the block of ice in the icebox. You left the money on the icebox. No contract --- No dime --- no ice.

A dimes worth of penny candy was enough to make you sick.
A bottle of Coke was a nickel.


Life is good

[bearcove]

Selling toys to buy houses.

[dagger dog]

The iceman,milkman,postman, and DOCTORS made housecalls.

[**oneshot**]

Penny candy store on the corner, cooler full of bottled Pepsi with the opener on the side. Please put the bottle back in the "wooden" case. Man, a quarter went a long way in that place.

[Revolver]

You guys make me jealous, those sound like great times. I'm a bit ashamed of the world I'm living in right now. So many people being taken advantage of and so many people taking advantage of everything.

[Jim]

Penny candy store on the corner, cooler full of bottled Pepsi with the opener on the side. Please put the bottle back in the "wooden" case. Man, a quarter went a long way in that place.

Man, it's a wonder I have any teeth at all, considering how many of those penny jaw breakers I consumed as a kid. Ten cent bottled Pepsis and five cent Milky Way bars ruined my appetite for many a supper.

As for entertainment, nothing beat penny boxes of matches and punks and five cent 16 count packs of fire crackers. And let's not forget how many BBs you could get for a nickel. That was a day's worth of shootin' right there.

My friends and I would a quarter size chunk of dry ice for a nickel from the ice cream man. You put that in a mayo jar about half full of water, screw the top on tight and we had explosives!

[41 mag fan]

You know you're gettting old when the kids on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader are smarter than you are!!

STOP THAT

Yesterday I was going thru a box of my OLD STUFF and found a fold out postcard of the BUDWEISER team. I picked it up at a show here many years ago. On the back it said place a THREE CENT STAMP HERE.

Who else can remember when the U S Post Office could deliver a 12" X 4 1/2 " card across the country for .03 and turn a profit.

I must be getting REALLY old but don't need to be reminded. I seem to be doing a good job all by myself thank you

.03.......wasn't that when the pony express was still in operation???

The iceman,milkman,postman, and DOCTORS made housecalls.

My F.I.L. makes comments all the time how the post man and millkman strike a close resemblance to the kids!!

[Nazgul]

Sat done with some other techs at work, about 7 of us at the table. One guys says " Today is my birthday, 19 years old." . Went around the table and I was 30 years older than the next oldest guy.

I need to quit and shoot more.

Don

[higgins]

I'm getting more selective about the brass I'm willing to bend over and pick up when scavenging at the range. 9mm and .40 S&W don't make the cut any more, unless they're laying beside something I really want.