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  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    When you don't want to go to concerts because they are just too loud.

    I still go but I take earplugs with me, and I usually hope it's someplace I can sit the whole time because standing a long time makes my lower back hurt. :laugh:

    edited because I dont speel gud. :wink:
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member

    ETA: My husband was 1 when 'Ghostbusters' was released (8 years younger than me) and my parents took me to see it in the theater. We have a WHOLE lot of fun playing the 'Do you remember?' game at my house :laugh:

    I saw Star Wars first run, in the theater when I was 12. This thread is depressing. And funny. lol
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    When a ticket to a Stones concert cost $3.00 and it cost HOW MUCH now?

    I don't know, but I paid 18 dollars to see them in 1983.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    Knowing how to use a computer is an accomplishment lol as expose to common education in today's times.

    It's an accomplishment now too for some.

    I work on, build. support PCs and there are some people who can't even figure out how to turn them on, or don't realize the CPU and the monitor aren't the same thing. And I think "you had to use a computer every minute of your years in school, how do you not know this???"
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    putting anything other than dance on the (hug, dance, spank, date or pass) thread to a majority of the women seems overly pervy!
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    You think "Nightmare on Elm Street" Movies were scary....then see them with your 17 year old niece who looks at me like I fell off the porch and bumped my head! (Okay I agree...they are cheesy now! LOL)

    Oh and complain about gasoline being $3.55 a gallon, starting stories with "when I was your age I paid .79 cents a gallon for gas...."

    Yeah the first Michael Meyers Halloween movie with Jamie Lee Curtis is a cheesefest deluxe. :bigsmile:

    And I remember when gas when up to 75 cents a gallon during that shortage in the late 70's and everyone thought that was highway robbery.
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    You jog and your teeth fly out of your mouth and somehow land in someone else's coffee.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    Saturday morning tv consisted of Fat Albert, Shazam!, and some goofy apocalyptic show about a six wheeled armored vehicle roaming the land.

    LOL!!! I think that was "Ark II".
  • happystars82
    happystars82 Posts: 225 Member
    When u have to ask your kids to help you with technology!
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    When you realize your 20 year old has never had anything other than high speed internet his entire life.

    300 baud modem baby... you could go make yourself a snack before you totally connected. :bigsmile:
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    When Mick Jagger of the Stones sings "What a drag it is to get old " (is Mick lying ??):laugh:

    Mick is actually dead already. He just hasn't figured it out yet.
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    When your mother thinks this is hot:

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    -dies of no plz kthx-
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    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.

    Or when you need to turn on the closed captioning because you can't pick up half of what's being said.. and I was tested with perfect hearing a year ago too. lol
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    When your daughter asks
    "what was that dial thing on the old telephones all about, must have taken you ages to ring a number"!!!

    It DID! And I remember trying to do it too fast and totally screwing it up and having to start over from the beginning multiple times. Thank GOD for push button phones.
  • HealthyishWithMaggieG
    HealthyishWithMaggieG Posts: 397 Member
    When you're working for a semi-pro football team, get hit on by several of the players, start thinking about actually dating one of them, find out he's only 22, and realize you're old enough to be his mother.

    Now, the 32 year old with washboard abs, that wasn't creepy at all... and my friends were jealous over that one. ;-)
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    When you're working for a semi-pro football team, get hit on by several of the players, start thinking about actually dating one of them, find out he's only 22, and realize you're old enough to be his mother.

    Now, the 32 year old with washboard abs, that wasn't creepy at all... and my friends were jealous over that one. ;-)
    Oh damn, had to fan myself reading this LOLLLL
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    You walk into the university library, see the Quaint Old Technology exhibit, start playing Frogger and PacMan on the Atari 2600 system left for that purpose and you're the only one who knows what it is.

    Still have a working Atari in the house. lol
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member

    Tommy James and the Shondells played at your High School Junior /Senior Prom

    Before my time, but this is actually pretty awesome.
  • crazie4lulu
    crazie4lulu Posts: 762 Member
    when you daughters ask you..." Did they have that when you were born"? When i was born??? it wasnt the ice age!!! LOL
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    When your mother thinks this is hot:

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    -dies of no plz kthx-

    I can't imagine anyone on earth thinking this is hot. Unless their eyesight has failed.
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    when you daughters ask you..." Did they have that when you were born"? When i was born??? it wasnt the ice age!!! LOL
    Rofl, that's cruel XD
    Love how blunt kids are.
  • HealthyishWithMaggieG
    HealthyishWithMaggieG Posts: 397 Member
    When your mother thinks this is hot:

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    -dies of no plz kthx-

    I can't imagine anyone on earth thinking this is hot. Unless their eyesight has failed.

    Who IS that? I get the feeling he WAS hot, in his prime. He just did not age well. And, I'm sure I'll kick myself when I find out who he is.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    When your mother thinks this is hot:

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    -dies of no plz kthx-

    I can't imagine anyone on earth thinking this is hot. Unless their eyesight has failed.

    Who IS that? I get the feeling he WAS hot, in his prime. He just did not age well. And, I'm sure I'll kick myself when I find out who he is.

    Mickey Rourke. He was also a boxer and had way too much plastic surgery to fix all the times he was punched in the face. He should have let it go.

    he used to look like this:

    mickey8.jpg
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    He scares me :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    Punch cards in computer lab in college?

    Your fur coat is twice as old as your current students. (and your answer is, "Of course it's real!)

    you are older than most of your students' parents.

    troglodytes. cavemen. neanderthals.

    most importantly, your knees tell you so.
  • HealthyishWithMaggieG
    HealthyishWithMaggieG Posts: 397 Member
    When your mother thinks this is hot:

    0eadb3414d372478c4646491906122d8.png




    -dies of no plz kthx-

    I can't imagine anyone on earth thinking this is hot. Unless their eyesight has failed.

    Who IS that? I get the feeling he WAS hot, in his prime. He just did not age well. And, I'm sure I'll kick myself when I find out who he is.

    Mickey Rourke. He was also a boxer and had way too much plastic surgery to fix all the times he was punched in the face. He should have let it go.

    Okay. I knew he had had work done. I just thought he looked even further different (and worse) than this now. Personally, I never thought he was attractive.
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    Punch cards in computer lab in college?

    Your fur coat is twice as old as your current students.

    you are older than most of your students' parents.

    troglodytes. cavemen. neanderthals.

    most importantly, your knees tell you so.
    trilobite .-.
    Blah, didn't like science class.

    And I'm only 28 and my knee tells me so!

    -must be old- LOL
  • V0lver
    V0lver Posts: 915 Member
    when you have trouble figuring out navigation using google maps
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member

    Okay. I knew he had had work done. I just thought he looked even further different (and worse) than this now. Personally, I never thought he was attractive.

    Me neither, but at least in the 80's he didn't look like a science experiment.
  • HealthyishWithMaggieG
    HealthyishWithMaggieG Posts: 397 Member

    Okay. I knew he had had work done. I just thought he looked even further different (and worse) than this now. Personally, I never thought he was attractive.

    Me neither, but at least in the 80's he didn't look like a science experiment.

    Haha! Agreed!

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