What fact makse you feel old?

BAMFMeredith

I didnt read through the thread, but Eminem's daughter Hailey is on her HIGH SCHOOL's volleyball team!

Yep. Here she is.

biggsexy7

**Sorry this is so long, I just received it in an email**


Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right;we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.


But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Thank You! I agree with you 100%. I have often said we have so many things now days to help make life easier and do things faster yet we don't hae time to do anything. We use to go visit friends now everyone just text or emails them. Sad

aamb

policemen look as if they should still be in school :huh:

lu136mickey

Im going to be a grandma in Oct.

Ninatoots

So many of my friends and family are dead!

jlewis2896

My husband regularly yells at passing teenagers to "Stay off my lawn!"

My second son is as tall as me

I discuss bowel movements with my elderly neighbor when we ask each other how things are going

Going to bed at 11pm is considered staying up late

lu136mickey

**Sorry this is so long, I just received it in an email**


Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right;we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.


But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Thank You! I agree with you 100%. I have often said we have so many things now days to help make life easier and do things faster yet we don't hae time to do anything. We use to go visit friends now everyone just text or emails them. Sad

So True love this

stephensmith0929

i once owned a members only jacket!

treesha450

my youngest son will turn 21 this summer !!

SomeMorr

GNR - Apetite for Destruction is considered "Classic Rock"... that came out the year I was born

My best friend that I have known since she was two years old (Im four years older than her) graduated college last year.

People born in the 90's make me feel old.

alikrorp225

My daughter will be a senior in high school in the fall. My middle child will be a freshman in high school. My baby just finished elementary school and is moving up to middle. It seems like yesterday that I was a senior in high school....I have to ask...WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?! lol Thankfully, I can say that even when my joints creak with each step, jump, elliptical turn, or zumba move, I feel better now than I did 10 years ago. That's a good thing!

jdploki70

My 7 year old son makes me feel old. The fact that people look at me in awe when I tell them that I saw Star Wars in the theater during the first run of the movie doesn't help either.

Perfectdiamonds1

I remember when television stations when off at midnight. There was no all night TV Stations:laugh:

Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel

I remember when Coca-Cola clothing was popular...and Guess jeans with the little zippers on the bottom...parachute pants were popular when I was in elementary school....rolled up jeans (the tighter the roll, the better) were a junior high thing (there's another one, we called it JUNIOR HIGH, not MIDDLE SCHOOL). LOL, I could go on and on and on...

DoingItNow2012

Hmmm. My kids consider techno the grandfather of dubstep.

My first car was a 1980 Chevette and I had a boom box with D batteries in it because the radio didn't work.

I can remember having "party lines" where you had to share a phone line with 2 or more neighbors in the small town I grew up in. (You could actually pick up the phone and hear their conversation.)

OMG, I was debating whether certain songs were techno or dubstep with my nephew. But I don't really know the difference. I almost brought up house music, but left it alone. yikes

beachlover718

We are having an 80's theme day at work on Thursday. One of my staff members was born in 1988! She barely lived in the 80's! How can possibly know how to dress like we did "back then"?!?!

i once owned a members only jacket!

Can I borrow it, just for one day?

bellesouth18

:explode:

My upcoming birthday. :noway: 59!!! :sad:
I was 19 before I got a color TV. My parents still had their black and white Zenith.
I had a preteen crush on the Monkees singing group. :blushing:

rileamoyer

my 6 year old grandson thinks a corded phone is cool and likes learning to dial it (call his mom whenever he visits on it).

magichatter06

We are having an 80's theme day at work on Thursday. One of my staff members was born in 1988! She barely lived in the 80's! How can possibly know how to dress like we did "back then"?!?!

i once owned a members only jacket!

Can I borrow it, just for one day?

I was born in 1988 :frown:


The fact that my nephew is a senior in HS now makes me feel old!

smantha32

My 30 year reunion is next year.
People today don't remember a world before CDs.
I was 15 when John Lennon died.. (32 years ago.? EEP!)
I have 30 year old cocktail dresses I bought new, now considered vintage. *sigh*

auntiebabs

I am a Great-Aunt (or a Grand-Aunt if you prefer)

The little girl that I used to baby-sit when I was in H.S. is now 40

The first time I saw Star Wars it was in the theater and I was on a DATE.

I remember watching "Gidget", "The Flying Nun", "The Monkees" and "My Mother the Car"

frootcat

People who can legally buy cigarettes today weren't even born when I graduated high school.

auntiebabs

The year I was born, the Berlin wall came down and the Internet went up.

The year I was born, the Berlin wall WENT UP.

Jersey_Devil

that kids born in this century have no idea what the world was like before the internet and cell phones.

Exactly!!
They have never used a card catalog at the library, had to read a book to get facts or going to visit friends in person. :laugh:

oh wow- i hadn't been to the library in at least 10 years, AT LEAST, and when i went a few years ago i walked in and couldn't find the card catalogue. I asked the librarian where it was and she was laughing her *kitten* off!!!! She's like "ummm, everything is on the computer."

Jersey_Devil

We are having an 80's theme day at work on Thursday. One of my staff members was born in 1988! She barely lived in the 80's! How can possibly know how to dress like we did "back then"?!?!

i once owned a members only jacket!

Can I borrow it, just for one day?

you gonna wear flock of seagulls hair?

jdploki70

We are having an 80's theme day at work on Thursday. One of my staff members was born in 1988! She barely lived in the 80's! How can possibly know how to dress like we did "back then"?!?!

i once owned a members only jacket!

Can I borrow it, just for one day?

I was born in 1988 :frown:


The fact that my nephew is a senior in HS now makes me feel old!

The fact that you were born the same year I graduated HS makes me feel very old...

Hellbent_Heidi

Hmmm. My kids consider techno the grandfather of dubstep.

My first car was a 1980 Chevette and I had a boom box with D batteries in it because the radio didn't work.

I can remember having "party lines" where you had to share a phone line with 2 or more neighbors in the small town I grew up in. (You could actually pick up the phone and hear their conversation.)

OMG, I was debating whether certain songs were techno or dubstep with my nephew. But I don't really know the difference. I almost brought up house music, but left it alone. yikes

This just gave me a new one.

I have NO clue what "dubstep" is :laugh:

amysmommy116

Knowing my younger sister is only 19 months younger than me and is getting ready to graduate from college.

ComicBookGeekGirl

Children who I babysat as a teen are now entering collage.

marieautumn

the fact that i work with people who were born in the 90's...and mind you this is not fast food but oil and gas industry.