You know you're old when...
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You remember that Motel 6 meant $6/night.0
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When you remember that your TV came from Radio Rentals and your dad spent all his time adjusting the vertical and horizontal hold with a plastic knitting needle.0
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Carbon paper and that white liquid to fix the typos.0
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When date night consistes of going to the grocery store on senior discount day. That would be Wednesday here, if you're curious.0
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When you can legally marry someone half your age or younger (not that you want to).0
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It's Friday night, and I'm super excited to go to bed early so I can sleep as long as I want and not blow my entire day tomorrow. My fiance asked me if I was 80 years old in my head :blushing:0
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When someone you think is older than you offers to pick up something you dropped on the floor
When you start to say the same things as your mum used to say and the kids say you are turning into grandma
When £8.00 a week was a good wage
When the first house you bought cost £4000 and you thought it was expensive
When you are looking for a new dress for a wedding and start thinking is that style too young for me
When your oldest nephew is about to celebrate his 40th birthday and your 'baby' youngest son is 25.
When your mother is 96 next month and she thinks you are same age as her - bless her
When you fall asleep watching tv in the afternoon
On the other hand having a younger husband, contact with your young adult offspring who try to keep you up to date with new technology, music etc, trying new activities, all help to keep give you a young outlook even if your body doesn't quite match.0 -
You're driving somewhere at 10pm and see some kids walking and find yourself thinking, "What are they doing? Don't they know it's a school night?"
You see a group of teenagers and wonder if they have eating disorders and then realize they're thin because they're young.0 -
when the only way you know what day of the week it is, by the day on your pill caddy when you take your meds.:sick:0
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Saturday morning tv consisted of Fat Albert, Shazam!, and some goofy apocalyptic show about a six wheeled armored vehicle roaming the land.
Tom Haden showing Popeye, Tom Slick, Super Chicken and George of the Jungle cartoons in between turning squiggles into drawrings.
Looney Tunes, Mighty Mouse, Tom Terrific, Boris and Natasha, Fractured Fairy Tales, The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Gumby, Davey and Goliath, and Colonel Bleep from Zero Zero Island.
Might Mouse:
Here I come to save the day!0 -
When the barber trims your eyebrows.0
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You remember rotary phones and shared party lines, getting a Coke and a candy bar for 25 cents, cars without power steering or power brakes or air conditioning, , , ,0
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I'm 42 and I have some co-workers (at the school I teach) that are 24 years old.
I had already graduated from high school when they were born...0 -
When you leave the house to go out at 8, you feel like a rebel.
Ha! At 9 I feel just absolutely James Dean,at 10 I am sleepy and want to go home.0 -
Not only know all the words to Basketball Jones, but can also sing it in falsetto at the appropriate lyric, quote the name of the original singer, the year it came out, and had the album at one time (vinyl).
Take *THAT* you punks !! LOL
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You reminisce about Saturday Morning Pictures and The Green Archer which always had a great cliffhanger.0
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You need a nap, a shower & a cup of coffee before a night out on the town.
Then you come back at 1am.
You too?0 -
You're in a nightclub and the music is so loud you have to go home :huh:0
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You vaguely remember, or maybe only think you remember, when Jane Fonda was an antiwar protestor, and criticized for her ignorance.
You remember when Jane Fonda and her wanna-be chorus line member outfits were all the rage.
You remember when Jane Fonda said that no one in this culture is completely comfortable with her or his body.
You remember when Jane Fonda was praised for her response to the Vietnam War.0 -
You remember when:
Thailand was Siam;
The Czech Republic was Czechoslovakia;
Taiwan was Formosa;
Sri Lanka was Ceylon;
Yugoslavia existed; as earlier did
The Austro-Hungarian Empire.*
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When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.
4? ...I'm a little closer to a decade...haha0 -
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You come home from a doctor's appointment and say, "She looked like she's about 18. I don't know *how* she's a doctor."
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When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.
^ Get out of this thread!
When your friends have grandchildren in school, when your favorite songs from your childhood (in the 60s and 70s) have been turned into Muzak, when you think staying home in your pajamas on a Friday night sound amazing, when you'd rather not have a drink. I could go on but I won't!0 -
You realize the volume goes to 11 BECAUSE YOU NEED IT THAT LOUD
You it's a good night because you only had to get up twice to pee.0 -
your hairdresser asks if that is your natural colour, you say yes and they say "Wow, aren't you doing well!"0
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youd rather stay in and watch a good rom com than go out lol0
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when your 5 year old makes that "wow" face when you tell him how old you are :-\0
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When your children are now older than you were when you had them.
When you reminisce about the smell of a fresh ditto.
When you remember watching TV in black and white, with a rabbit ear antenna that was built in, and there was no remote, you had to get up and actually turn a knob to change the channel but there wasn't that much on anyway.
When you had a transistor AM radio and it was cool.
When TV dinners came in aluminum trays and had soup in them and were cooked in the oven.
When there were no cell phones and you used to have to hunt down a pay phone and have change to put in it.
When you used to have a Walkman with tape cassette and roller skated (not bladed) in public rocking out to disco.0 -
when you dont find 18 - 20 yr olds attractive anymore0
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