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  • STrooper
    STrooper Posts: 659 Member
    You remember that Motel 6 meant $6/night.
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,730 Member
    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.
  • plateaued
    plateaued Posts: 199 Member
    Carbon paper and that white liquid to fix the typos.
  • blytheandbonnie
    blytheandbonnie Posts: 3,275 Member
    When date night consistes of going to the grocery store on senior discount day. That would be Wednesday here, if you're curious.
  • Hexahedra
    Hexahedra Posts: 894 Member
    When you can legally marry someone half your age or younger (not that you want to).
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    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:
  • oskybosky4
    oskybosky4 Posts: 62
    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.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    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.
  • oldandhealthier
    oldandhealthier Posts: 449 Member
    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:
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    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!
  • Underworld_Dandy
    Underworld_Dandy Posts: 22 Member
    When the barber trims your eyebrows.
  • tuckerrj
    tuckerrj Posts: 1,453 Member
    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, , , ,
  • jjlibunao
    jjlibunao Posts: 78
    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...
  • Overridden
    Overridden Posts: 19
    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.
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    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

    :bigsmile: :laugh: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,730 Member
    You reminisce about Saturday Morning Pictures and The Green Archer which always had a great cliffhanger.
  • griff7809
    griff7809 Posts: 611 Member
    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?
  • littlebuddy84
    littlebuddy84 Posts: 995 Member
    You're in a nightclub and the music is so loud you have to go home :huh:
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    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.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    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.*

    *j/k
  • Jimaudit
    Jimaudit Posts: 275
    When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.

    4? ...I'm a little closer to a decade...haha
    Decade? I'm a little closer to three decades (3 more years).
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  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    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."

    :|
  • IslandDreamer64
    IslandDreamer64 Posts: 258 Member
    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!
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 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.
  • emergencytennis
    emergencytennis Posts: 864 Member
    your hairdresser asks if that is your natural colour, you say yes and they say "Wow, aren't you doing well!"
  • jenijen25
    jenijen25 Posts: 137 Member
    youd rather stay in and watch a good rom com than go out lol
  • avlama
    avlama Posts: 502 Member
    when your 5 year old makes that "wow" face when you tell him how old you are :-\
  • 1yoyoKAT
    1yoyoKAT Posts: 206 Member
    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.
  • sam308lbs
    sam308lbs Posts: 1,936 Member
    when you dont find 18 - 20 yr olds attractive anymore

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