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Tom-ADC
10-17-2012, 02:33 PM
My oldest daughter turned 53 today, bless her heart!

Chicken Thief
10-17-2012, 03:01 PM
In 10-15 yrs landlines are gone!

geargnasher
10-17-2012, 03:02 PM
Dang, I started feeling older when I began to hear songs that were new when I was a teenager on classic rock radio. I'm not old enough for that to be happening yet!

I remember a good friend of mine commenting that his oldest daughter (same age as my dad) had turned 50. He looked at his wife of 55 years and said "How did that happen, heck, WE'RE not that old!"

Gear

smokeywolf
10-17-2012, 03:28 PM
I feel old when I hear kids say, "Elvis Presley? Who's that?", "Two bits? what are bits?", "A sawbuck? Is that part of a saw?", "Milkman? Is that the guy that milks the cows?", "Shave and a haircut? You mean the barber used to shave you too?".

smokeywolf

TheDoctor
10-17-2012, 06:14 PM
When I realize I have been in the Army longer than some of my soldiers have been ALIVE!

starbits
10-17-2012, 06:59 PM
When kids started buying tennis shoes that cost 5 times what my first car did.

When I realized I was older than the Sergeant major in my unit.


Starbits

cdet69
10-17-2012, 07:12 PM
When new employees were not born yet whenn I started working for the same company.

km101
10-17-2012, 11:49 PM
When my granddaughter asked me what those "black, flat thing" are! She had never seen or heard of a record!

When remarking on something obvious, I said that "Ray Charles could see what is wrong here." And someone asked me who Ray Charles was.

Nazgul
10-18-2012, 06:26 AM
Got a new service manager where I work. Real hard charging Marine. Told him I was in the Corps, he asked when I went in. He said "Oh, that is the year I was born!"

Don

Greg B.
10-18-2012, 03:36 PM
1) When I was shooting my Luger at the range and one of the 25 yr olds asked his budy what it was and the reply was "an old Luger".

2)When Speer discontinued my favorite 275 gr. 338 bullet.

3) When I had to throw out my last empty can of Hercules Bulls Eye.

Roosters
10-18-2012, 03:50 PM
If you can find it your Senior High School Picture or year book. :sad: If that don’t do it you good to go.

badgeredd
10-18-2012, 04:05 PM
I felt like I was getting older when my oldest daughter started driving...so I guess now my oldest grandsons are driving...well that makes me feel even older than older!

Edd

sundog
10-18-2012, 04:09 PM
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?

oneokie
10-18-2012, 04:18 PM
Rocks are older than dirt.

Echo
10-18-2012, 04:33 PM
Too many instances to list, but it really irritated me (at the educations system) when my grand-daughter didn't know who Jimmy Doolittle was.
And 'That was the year I was born' was laid on me 40 years ago!

bearcove
10-18-2012, 07:43 PM
Rocks are older than dirt.

Naw, Dirt is worn out rocks.

Jammer Six
10-18-2012, 10:22 PM
We tested the rock.

We broke it.

That's how gravel was invented.

Bad Water Bill
10-19-2012, 06:38 AM
When I look at the age of members here.

OVER 25,000 members and I am OLDER than all but about 17 others :veryconfu

How can that be when I KNOW I am only about 45??

dragonrider
10-19-2012, 09:06 AM
When I wake up in the morning.

captaint
10-19-2012, 10:26 AM
My father in law, God rest his kind soul, had a horse drawn milk route in Philadelphia. He said when he first started to do the route, the horse knew where to stop. He didn't have to sweat the addresses. He did this when he was in his early twenties. What a guy. I still miss him. Mike

bearcove
10-19-2012, 11:52 AM
Getting glasses, again.

Bad Water Bill
10-19-2012, 12:17 PM
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
10-19-2012, 12:29 PM
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
10-19-2012, 12:31 PM
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
10-19-2012, 12:39 PM
Just yesterday when I bought a 25¢ package of potato chips, and it cost me $1.09.

Dale in Louisiana
10-19-2012, 12:57 PM
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
10-19-2012, 12:58 PM
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:kidding:

fcvan
10-19-2012, 01:07 PM
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
10-19-2012, 01:07 PM
http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r600/threescrew3/billybeer.jpg

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

mold maker
10-19-2012, 01:25 PM
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.
10-19-2012, 02:02 PM
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
10-19-2012, 10:35 PM
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
10-19-2012, 11:05 PM
Selling toys to buy houses.

dagger dog
10-19-2012, 11:27 PM
The iceman,milkman,postman, and DOCTORS made housecalls.

**oneshot**
10-20-2012, 07:00 AM
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
10-20-2012, 08:17 AM
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
10-20-2012, 08:47 AM
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![smilie=w:

41 mag fan
10-20-2012, 09:10 AM
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:kidding:


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


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
10-20-2012, 10:01 AM
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
10-20-2012, 10:36 AM
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.

Bad Water Bill
10-20-2012, 11:20 AM
[QUOTE=41 mag fan

.03.......wasn't that when the pony express was still in operation??? ;1887720]



Dad burn it yungen. Git bak ta yer MAMA n ask her fer sum smatz.

Pony xpres costed $1.50 pr ounse an no grante ta letr got der.

An dem hawses wuz fastest onez I evr rode.

Then da singn wire,rale rode n gubment ruint thingz.

Nuf histeri fer now.:bigsmyl2:

looseprojectile
10-20-2012, 12:54 PM
Jim has some original teeth. I admire that in a man!
If you don't want to suffer don't get old.

I consider myself over the hump. No tooth pain to disturb me anymore.
I don't think I ever had a tooth worth saving.
I always went to the dentist regularly, to get a rotten tooth removed.


Life is good

waksupi
10-20-2012, 02:31 PM
I'm off to put an old friend in the ground in about an hour. THAT makes me feel old.

Junior1942
10-20-2012, 05:42 PM
I'm off to put an old friend in the ground in about an hour. THAT makes me feel old.Our old friends are slowly fading away. Back in 1989 or so after my 2nd heart attack, I was feeling about as low as a man can feel. I didn't think I had long to live, so I made a will. In it, I listed the six friends I wanted to be my pallbearers. Well, heart attack #3 didn't kill me in 1993. And four of my six pallbearers are dead now.

R.Ph. 380
10-20-2012, 07:09 PM
Our old friends are slowly fading away. Back in 1989 or so after my 2nd heart attack, I was feeling about as low as a man can feel. I didn't think I had long to live, so I made a will. In it, I listed the six friends I wanted to be my pallbearers. Well, heart attack #3 didn't kill me in 1993. And four of my six pallbearers are dead now.

You better hurry up and kick the bucket, or you aren't going to have anybody to carry you to the hole........................hehehe

Tom-ADC
10-20-2012, 11:11 PM
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

Jerry, that's funny, reminds me, my mother, myself and my oldest all had the same English teacher in high school, I think she finally retired.

wallenba
10-20-2012, 11:22 PM
"Good morning sir, with the senior discount, the breakfast special is only $3.99 today. Would you like a menu?"

facetious
11-14-2012, 06:31 AM
remember when you would fall and every one made fun of you, now thy yell be careful it could be his hip!!

Geraldo
11-14-2012, 10:00 AM
Seeing my dad get old.

Crawdaddy
11-14-2012, 11:49 AM
A call last month that said I am going to be a Great Grand Dad... Yikes...

Smitty's Retired
11-14-2012, 01:06 PM
Me and my better half was at her annual family reunion this past July. You realize you are getting old, when they want a picture of all the older Aunts, Uncles and you are one of the crowd.

quilbilly
11-14-2012, 01:09 PM
I knew I was over the hill when I went into McDonalds and they gave me the senior discount without asking.

rockrat
11-14-2012, 01:19 PM
Ony when my soon to be twenty year old Daughter tells me "gee Dad, you are getting old, I never noticed that when I was living at home".

All the aches nowadays, I KNEW already that time was catching up to me, just different to be reminded from your kid.

I still don't get the senior discount most places. Those that do give it to me without asking my age, make me a bit insulted that they think I am old enough for the discount, but my Scottish heritage in me is just smiling at the money I am saving:)

Harter66
11-14-2012, 02:25 PM
I have a very clear memory of my Dad coming unhinged in Kernville Ca when the clerk told him white gas was going to cost 65 cents a gallon in the can inside because the gasoline venders wouldn't deliver anymore. He said something like " really 65 cents? It was 38 cents in the pump last week" but much less polite.

Old hit me when the Scorpions were elevator music. 3 years ago my baby girls took me out and bought all the drinks,then apoligized for all the times "mom thought you were drinking too much". The youngest boy just finished a 6yr hitch in the Army next year I'll only be twice his age instead of the 23x I started out . I figure I must be getting younger. In April I'll have grands 1mo ,3,5 and 6.

I remember penny candy and a coke machine w/10 oz cokes for a quarter. And thinking $10/would be living the high life................

It doesn't matter what happened to the years so long as we've had fun and lived right.

Tom-ADC
11-14-2012, 06:22 PM
A call last month that said I am going to be a Great Grand Dad... Yikes...


That will do it everytime, just found out our third will arrive in July 2013!!

dragonrider
11-14-2012, 07:39 PM
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

You win Jerry, hands down. :drinks:

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

I don't remember the iceman, but the milkman and doctors.....yes. We just recently got mail delivery to the house, always had a po box before that.

Bad Water Bill
11-14-2012, 09:21 PM
TWO years ago my GRAMMAR SCHOOL had their 60th reunion, Those folks sure getting OLD.:)

Ed Barrett
11-14-2012, 11:37 PM
I was always working out of state or out of the country when they were having a class reunion. Finally got to go to the 50th. I felt so good after that I felt guilty. I wasn't in a wheel chair or a walker, and after all the years of shooting I didn't have a hearing aid.
My first car was a 47 Studebaker that I got for $20. Gas was 18.9 cents a gallon and two bucks worth was the most I ever put in a car until I drove across country in the Navy. Someone always pumped the gas, washed the windshield and checked the oil. I remember buying .22 shorts for 15 cents Long rifles were 20 cents.
When beer at the EM club at Great Lakes went from 10 cents a glass to 15 cents.
I could go on but I'm really starting to feel old.

Gliden07
11-15-2012, 07:26 AM
I started to feel old recently. I was layed off and am going to a trade school to get my HVAC/R licence. We seem to be a pretty diverse crowd. But the yonger students there when they talk I just about need a translator for!! I actually greeted a younger student the other day by saying "What up Dawg??" I could'nt believe I said it!! LOL!!

bearcove
11-15-2012, 09:46 AM
Standing in the bed of the truck and relize that I better climb out.

Jumping might not be a good idea!

popper
11-15-2012, 12:37 PM
When you get lost in the town you were raised in.

blackthorn
11-15-2012, 01:04 PM
Old age really hit home two and a half years ago when my oldest son turned 50 (April)! This year my second son turned 50 (October) and my Grandaughter, age 28 (October) presented me with my great Grandson 2012 (February)! In 2013 (January) I will turn 74!

hiram1
11-15-2012, 07:38 PM
When the young kids come to the shop and try to show me how to weld.thay been doing it in school.and know it all you know.thay have been in school for 6 mo.and i have been doing it for years like in 30.It is so funny when thay dont know how to set the welder to weld.then i set it on about 300 amps and let them go at it.but i still feel old.And welding schools are a big rip off.

Mal Paso
11-15-2012, 07:52 PM
Bought an Ultra Dot for my S&W 629.

41 mag fan
11-15-2012, 08:04 PM
When you ask your boy if he'll be home to put the 4wheeler in the back of my truck for deer season opener sat morn, he says sure will then leaves.

few minutes later you realize, how are you gonna get it out? 2 bad knees now really sucks.

Whoever thought up the term "golden years" ought to be shot.
Mid lifes been torture for me, I hate to see what the "golden years" will be like.

Bad Water Bill
11-15-2012, 08:16 PM
DO NOT COMPLAIN

It sure beats the alternative.:bigsmyl2:

bob208
11-15-2012, 10:41 PM
when you go to an antique shop and see toys you got for christmass.
when you still own and drive a car and a truck with out a computer in it.
when all kids say that is so old school.

Bullet Caster
11-15-2012, 11:28 PM
When I went with my dad to the service station (SUNOCO) and paid .12 cents for a gallon of gas and hearing him complain about the price after fillin' up the old '55 Chevy wagon. Cokes were 6 cents at the barbershop. Hearing "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" and "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport". My dad used to fix television sets and hearing how $5.00 was too much to charge for a resistor and hearing him say, "sure the part only cost 5 cents but the $4.95 was for knowing where to put it." BC

Ickisrulz
11-15-2012, 11:56 PM
I am now older than the current guy playing James Bond.

I'm older than Roy Scheider was when he played in Jaws.

In reality I'm not old, but these two things make me feel like I'm headed that way.

Hawkeye45
11-19-2012, 05:59 PM
Try asking your kids what a party line is...

GT27
11-19-2012, 07:45 PM
When what doesn't hurt,doesn't work! When you hear snap,crackle,&pop before you pour milk on your Rice Krispies!

1Shirt
11-19-2012, 08:34 PM
When what doesn't hurt,doesn't work! When you hear snap,crackle,&pop before you pour milk on your Rice Krispies!

Age is a state of mind! That said, I would like to know where my last 40 years went to!
1Shirt!

leftiye
11-19-2012, 10:08 PM
Ah'm 39. Ah'm in good compny.

bearcove
11-19-2012, 10:37 PM
When guys with gray hair give you gadget tips.

ROGER4314
11-26-2012, 11:14 AM
I'm 66 so it doesn't take too much to make me feel older. Our Texas weather is driving my arthritis crazy! It was in the upper 30's early yesterday and I just went outside this morning to a warm and humid morning at about 70 degrees. Later today, I'll ride the Harley in my shirtsleeves! It's nice to be away from serious winter but these drastic temperature changes sure make my joints hurt!

Flash

Chicken Thief
11-26-2012, 06:54 PM
http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm153/Chickenthief/Blandet/20-1.jpg
http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm153/Chickenthief/Blandet/053701-01.jpg

Wal'
11-26-2012, 08:21 PM
When your son just smiles at you when he picks up the bucket of wheelweights you easily put in the shed ten years back ......

Charlie Two Tracks
11-26-2012, 10:07 PM
A very nice looking, young lady and I were approaching the doors at a local Casey's. She got there a couple of steps ahead of me and held the door open for me................ dang.

Bad Water Bill
11-26-2012, 10:20 PM
When you have a YOUNG lady tell her child "hurry up and run up and open the door for that old man" you know you are there.

The alternative is even worse.

trying2learn
11-26-2012, 10:53 PM
Now I am by no means trying to compare. Just thought you all might like these. As I am only 32 or 33 heck I can't ever remember. But I was talking to a young tech the other day and we got to talking about where we were for certain things. I said I can remember when and where I was at the time of the okc bombing. He stopped tilted his head said wasn't that the world trade centers. I politely said no. It was the downtown bombing. He then smilled laughed and said hey tim I wasn't even born then. I didn't know about it. Could you tell me? He was serious thats what made me feel real old.

I was putting gas in the other night and made a comment to a young lady about how I remember helping my dad put it in at 83 cents a gallon and there was regular or unleaded again I got a what is that look, she then said is it like cng or diesel?

My kids brought me a cassette tape and asked how they worked.

Again I don't have the years of experience you fine gentlemen do but I wish to learn everything I can, and thought you all might enjoy that.

One last note and this is my bragging moment. I don't have to tell any of my kids to run to open the door. They do it on their own and say your welcome not you bet or any number of smart answers. I had a vetren stop them and myself to say thanks for saying thank you not something else.
Sorry I had to brag when I read the comment on the kids being told to open the door in respect of the elders. But my father would have knocked me to the ground for disrespecting my elders. Sorry that was so long.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

10x
11-26-2012, 11:15 PM
Once I was young.
Now I am old
In between went by way too fast.

My grandfather was born in 1882, My father in 1913, My son in 1981, Grandson in 2006.
There has been a lot of lead down the barrel and one or two misfires but it has all been good.

Bad Water Bill
11-27-2012, 12:52 AM
One last note and this is my bragging moment. I don't have to tell any of my kids to run to open the door. They do it on their own and say your welcome not you bet or any number of smart answers. I had a veteran stop them and myself to say thanks for saying thank you not something else.

Your parents should be very proud of you and your children.

waksupi
11-27-2012, 01:04 AM
A very nice looking, young lady and I were approaching the doors at a local Casey's. She got there a couple of steps ahead of me and held the door open for me................ dang.

Same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago, and SMILED when she did it. And she wasn't flirting. :sad:

Blacksmith
11-27-2012, 02:17 AM
I was sorting old papers and came across a pamphlet from my first shooting club where I was a junior member and first learned to shoot. It was the Powder Burners Rifle & Pistol Club and was sponsored by Arthur Cook Supply Corporation, Arthur Cook won a gold medal in the 50 meter rifle prone event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Annual Senior Membership $10.00
Annual Junior Membership $5.00
Initiation Fee (Junior & Senior) $5.00
Range Fees 35 cents per half hour
Equipment Rental No Charge
Trap and Skeet Fees with Shells $3.50 per round
Trap and Skeet Fees Without Shells $1.25 per round
Instruction No Charge

The Club had a Loading Room and to quote from the pamphlet "Here members may cast their bullets and reload pistol, rifle or shotshell with the complete selection of tools."

The directions to the range start out Follow Rt. 1 north to Beltsville Drive in Theater ..........

trying2learn
11-27-2012, 02:25 AM
Your parents should be very proud of you and your children.

Thank you sir I am sure my dad would appreciate the kind words.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

facetious
11-27-2012, 04:05 AM
Thy used to say you were good looking , now when thy see you thy say you are looking good.

Bullwolf
11-27-2012, 05:14 AM
Things like this make me feel old.
Look closely at the price tag. Pay close attention to the cost, as well as the location.

54671

And I will be re loading that brass too.

- Bullwolf

nitroproof
11-28-2012, 05:00 PM
1. When I tell someone I watched Sputnik go over...
2. I used a slide rule in college...
2a. my first calculator cost $35 - it could add, subtract, multiply, divide AND do square root!!!
Any of which anyone under 30 finds totally unbeleivable.

Blacksmith
11-29-2012, 02:43 AM
When my son moved into his house he needed a phone to receive calls until the phone company could install one. I had an old rotary dial phone in designer black so I loaned him that. My grandsons had never seen a dial phone except in pictures and they about wore out the dial playing with it. That was years ago and one of them, in college now, mentioned it at Thanksgiving. Man am I OLD!

10x
11-29-2012, 09:48 AM
When my son moved into his house he needed a phone to receive calls until the phone company could install one. I had an old rotary dial phone in designer black so I loaned him that. My grandsons had never seen a dial phone except in pictures and they about wore out the dial playing with it. That was years ago and one of them, in college now, mentioned it at Thanksgiving. Man am I OLD!

Really??? I still have a "party line" dial phone on one extension. You have to pull up a plunger to talk. It was the second phone in my parents home...

Jim
11-29-2012, 10:00 AM
30 degree slopes.

Bad Water Bill
11-29-2012, 10:19 AM
Really??? I still have a "party line" dial phone on one extension. You have to pull up a plunger to talk. It was the second phone in my parents home...

Does that bring back memories.

My cousin worked the switchboard in her town for over 45 years. When a light lit up I pulled out a cord and plugged it into the lighted hole. Eva Rae would say "Hi Mable how is your ??? and she would point at a different hole. I would pull out the matching cord and plugged it in the hole she pointed at.

To bad all of those folks have left us. But they left me with a lot of good memories.

Silvercreek Farmer
11-29-2012, 11:50 AM
If I hurt this bad now, I can't imagine how I will feel when I am actually old! I'm already saying, I remember when that only cost $x.xx and I am only 31! I do know what records, 8 tracks, party lines, two bits, and 8mm film are though...

nitroproof
11-29-2012, 02:25 PM
trying2learn's post ended with:

"SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2"

I had to Google to figure out what it was...

Now that makes me feel old!

Blacksmith
11-29-2012, 03:03 PM
Thanks for Google or there is a whole lot I wouldn't know what people were talking about.

wallenba
11-29-2012, 03:34 PM
I overheard two teens referring to my classic 1964 Plymouth Fury as an 'antique'. I guess maybe it qualifies, but it seems not that old to me.

DRNurse1
11-29-2012, 04:08 PM
Waking up next to a new lady every morning, whom I married 40 years ago. Now where did I put my glasses?

casterofboolits
11-30-2012, 09:53 AM
Just yesterday when I bought a 25¢ package of potato chips, and it cost me $1.09.

How aout a nickel soda now costs $1.69!!!! A nickel Hershey bar costs the same!@:shock:

bearcove
12-05-2012, 10:12 PM
Well I must admit I don't feel that old after reading this last page. I still open doors for women and haven't seen that change.

smokeywolf
12-17-2012, 12:31 AM
This was included in a recent email to me from Mrs. George Madis

RETIRED HEALTH MESSAGE

As I was lying in bed pondering the problems of the world, I rapidly realized that I don't really give a rat's ***. It's the tortoise life for me!

1.. If walking is good for your health, the postman would be immortal.

2.. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, and is fat.

3.. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years.

4.. A tortoise doesn't run and does nothing, yet it can live for more than 150 years. And, you tell me to exercise? I don't think so.


I'm retired. Go around me.


God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.


Now that I'm older here's what I've discovered:


1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

2. My wild oats have turned into prunes and all-bran.

3. I finally got my head together, and now my body is falling apart.

4. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

5. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

6. If all is not lost, where is it?

7. It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

8. Some days, you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.

9. I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few.

10. Kids in the back seat cause accidents.

11. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.

12. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.

13. The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom.

14. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees.

15. When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone want to play chess?

16. Its not hard to meet expenses . . . they're everywhere.

17. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

18. These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter . . .. I go somewhere to get something, and then wonder what I'm hereafter


19. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

20. DID I SEND THESE TO YOU BEFORE..........??????

smokeywolf