Thought this might be an interesting fun topic.
1) When youy first thought with buying clothing is: how much trouble or expense is it going to be to take care of it.
2) When you have to explain to your coworkers what buckshot and a rain barrel is. I threatened to stand at the groundhog's hole with a load of buckshot so no way was he gonna stick his head out and see a shadow! LOL
3) When you have to explain vinyle records and record players.
Anyone have more to add??? ;D ;D ;)
1. When the people I work with believe that my photo can be found on the original Woodstock
album.
2. When the youth I work with ask me "what is an album......and what the heck is Woodstock"?!
3. When I tell the medical students I graduated from college in 1977 and they weren't even born
until the 80's!
4. When you don't have to shave your legs or armpits anymore but you have to occasionally pluck
out that black hair on your chin (this should be under "you know when you're post-menopausal")
5. When you worry about not having enough time to get everything done and accomplished in
your life....you feel like time is moving way too fast!
When you can remember that TV shows use all be in black and white.
1. When you want to go on the change you are so sick of periods
2. When sarcastic tenagers all you Mummy
3. When you realise it was nearly 20 years since you left school
4. When you fall down and everything hurts for weeks
5. When you're totally incontinent
1. When you can't remember what you did last night and you didn't even have a drink,
2. You have clothing you used to wear that came back into style again,
3. You see the new tv heartthrob and realize he/she was born after you graduated high school,
4. A crazy Saturday night is staying up to watch a whole movie after the kids go to bed and eating a whole bag of candy while doing it.
Here's a personal one: I was working with the new guy at work about a year ago and he said "have a good weekend Ma". I counted back and realized I really was old enough to be his mother...
When you son tells you that he found his first grey hair and that his hair line is receding like his father's.
When you hear you are about to become a GREAT grandmom for the 12th time. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Or when you mention that blue jeans were only $2.98 a pair when you were growing up and your grandson says "Gee Nana, they had jeans back then?"
You get all kinds of Geez, Wow and Holy Cow when you mention you have been married for 56 yrs.
I am still trying to come to terms with this disease and realize I have had it for over 45 yrs. Even though I am in remission, all it's gifts are still working. :(
Take care all there be better days a comin".
Huggles, Pooh
I was born in the first half of the last century of the last Millennium.
SOO, 50 seems young
heck, 60 seems young!
Hugs
Elaine
When you have to preface certain comments with "before you were born"....that has been the hardest thing!
Whew, where have all the years gone by? Hey, if you find my years roaming around, please give them a snack and send them back my way! ;D
Patze
1.Talking about TV shows, music, and musical groups and the people around are looking at you and saying "Who's that??" or "What??" and really don't have a clue what I am talking about. :D
2. When the year on the sign in stores for buying alcohol and cigarettes gets further and further away from my birth year....don't know why I notice this all the time but I do...lol. You know the one..."You must be born before this date in such and such year to purchase alcohol/cigarettes"...its displayed behind almost every counter and cash register where these items are sold it seems.
3. When my co-workers parents are younger than me!
When you have to pause in the middle of telling a story to explain what a phone booth is.
Explain to my kids what "near beer" is that they use to sell to 18 year olds in the early 70's
what the "draft" is
My kids/grandkids have never heard of "Tarzan".
And the kicker is when my grandson was 7 years old asking me if I KNEW GEORGE WAHINGTON
eye2dry
Middle age is when everybody you meet reminds you of someone you already know.
Old age is: Telling your kids that you remember going with your dad on "rounds" during a "black out" during WWII. Dad had to check that everyone had their windows covered and all lights out. It was very, very dark driving in the dark with no car lights and a very small flashlight.
Remebering what you were doing the day Queen Elizaabeth was corinated.
Can tell everyone exactly where you were and what you were doing the day JFK was assassinated.
Having fond memories of riding on street cars in Minneapolis while visiting relatives. If they has kept the street cars we wouldn't be having such high fuel prices!!
Having the ability to understand so much about WWII because we studied it a lot in school. Knowing that it took place all over the globe and more men died than people realize.
Oh, and the best of all---walking to the corner gas station at age 4 and buying a bottle of pop for 5 cents. It was safer on the streets back then and more Moms were home to help keep track of everyones kids---and everyone did help keep track of and discipline everyones kids. Just part of life in those days. Irish ;D
You know you're old when you realise that you got married before your work colleagues were born - oh and when you baby is suddenly a quarter of a century old! :)
I loved everyone's replies! So true! Some others I thought of:
When the home telephone was located on the kitchen wall. And when it rang, you answered it. No caller ID, no answering machines. And of course no cell phones. I remember when my parents got another phone put into their bedroom, an 'extension.' Boy, that was exciting for back then!
A slice of pizza and a small soda - 35 cents. A bottle of coke from the vending machine - 10 cents.
You could smoke absolutely anywhere.
Forty+ years ago, if you worked a cash register, you actually had to look at the price, take the money and figure out the change. No scanning, no people swiping credit cards, and no, the cash register did not tell you the change to give. Wow!
Back then, if I was looking for a job, I responded to a newspaper ad or just walked into the place. I was either hired on the spot, or not. None of this applying online, competing against a million other people i.e. Walmart, K Mart, Target etc., with a 10 page application that requires you to answer the most inane questions that somehow have something to do with working a cash register at their store...'Do you think politicians tell the truth?' An actual question!!
I remember when you got on a city bus, you did not need exact change. The bus driver actually made change for you!
Watching the 'Million Dollar Movie' on channel 9, which was repeated over and over. A choice of about 6 stations complete with bad reception (tho who knew bad from good back then!) Far cry from today's 200+ TV channels.
You know you're getting old when you say things like 'In my head, I am still 16. But my body feels like I'm 87.'
Buying clothes, shoes etc revolves around comfort. Hair styles need to be easy and never time-consuming or complicated.
If you divide your life into thirds i.e. 0-30, 30-60, 60-90 and realize that 2/3 of your life is over.
As a kid I was always getting stuff in my eyes...early Sjogren's dryness? Anyway, my mother would take me to the corner drugstore and the pharmacist would actually take it out!
I love reading these replies - keep them coming!
...you bend over to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
...tie shoes? let's try velcro!
You take afternoon naps
When taking a walk you 'stop to admire the view'
Today my young neighbour came to bring an Easter card, and stopped for a coffee. She is in her late 20's and from the Philipines. She has only been married a couple of years, and has a toddler. We talked about weddings and I brought out my wedding album. I was 18 when I got married, and am 55 now, so it's old:). However, the thing I noticed the most is th quality of photographs - they seem so small now, nothing at all like the clear pictures produced by digital cameras. Nor as romantic as the ones from my grandparent's days.
Today, I felt old!
Kathyx
Don't know if you ever heard the phrase "her looks could stop traffic" meaning that a gal was very good looking.
Back when I my mom was living, I remember taking the garbage out one summer day in a tank top and shorts. A couple guys in a car slowed down and were checking me out.
When I went in the house I told my mom, well I can't stop traffic but I can at least slow it down! ;)
Rabbit ears on top of the TV set. Every so often my dad would have to "adjust them" to get reception. Of course Black and White TV picture.
Telephone party lines! Originally there were 5 homes on one party line. Then we really felt we were living it up when it went down to 2 familys on a party line. By 1976 we had our own phone line, No sharing, we felt rich.
Chewing gum on the school bue, or not staying in your seat while the bus was moving.....the bus driver turned around and went back to the school and you got kicked off----straight to the office. Then instead of your parents chewing out the school district for keeping order....you got some more discipline from your parents when you got home (if you know what I mean)
eye2dry
LOL I used to stop traffic as well, also got honks on the horn in my youth and wolf whistles but now...not so much as a glance ???
yea, when those "double-takes" stop happening.....you can pretty much figure it's NOT your out of style clothes.....I'm just plain OLD!
When your children start to look old.
When your Children call you OLD GREY MARE.
But its my grandchildren that make me feel younger, because I can act a goat and get away with it, and they laugh and say thats just Grandma. ;)
Cheryl
One of your Boy Scouts knocks on your door to introduce his wife and three kids.
Quote from: Joe S. on April 20, 2012, 04:19:19 AM
One of your Boy Scouts knocks on your door to introduce his wife and three kids.
That was a shock, wasn't it, Joe?? I remember thinking few years ago about some of my preschoolers (I used to teach) that I was especially fond of and wondering what they were doing right about now. After I calculated their ages, I was absolutely beside myself when I realized they probably had preschoolers of their own :o
The shock was that that happend over 30 years ago!
You're old school friends don't even remember having ever known you
AS a kid, few in my neighborhood had a telephone. We did not.
Odd how two blocks away you could be playing with the other kids, scrape your knee or elbow, walk home and be met right at the door by your mother with a wet cloth, antiseptic and a bandage. Mother-Radar??? ;) :D
Pisces, you are so right about the Mother-Radar! How did they know things with few telephones and such?
One of the few times my mother was really upset with me was because of the "radar" I suppose. We lived on a side street of a busier one. All the side streets had narrow alleys between them, and a few cars zoomed down them. The family rule was to NEVER, ever, EVER ride my bike in the alley (even though some of my other 8-10 yr, old friends did.)
One afternoon I felt daring, and rode down one of the alleys just a bit. I felt such freedom! I thought Mom would never find out.
Sure enough, minutes later when I got home, she knew! :o Wow, was she mad and waiting with a rolled-up newspaper for a spanking. I never figured out how she found out. :)
When the grocery-baggers at the store call you "Ma'am" and ask if you need help taking your things to the car. (:
Quote from: Meld256 on April 28, 2012, 03:57:13 AM
When the grocery-baggers at the store call you "Ma'am" and ask if you need help taking your things to the car. (:
^ happens to
your daughter!!!
Oh, Linda...that's just wrong. :D
LOL...yup that would do it Linda! ;)
When you check out a museum exhibit on antique toys and see a toy you played with as a child :o!
When your niece picks up the digital Sony Walkman you use during exercise and wants to know what it is.
When your sister calls really, really upset because a neighbor's young child left her yard saying, bye old lady. ;D
When you pulled into the gas station and the attendant not only pumped your gas for you, he checked the oil too. Every time!!
When they sold penny candy and you actually paid 1c for it!! (gum balls too out of the gumball machine)
When there were no garage door openers you pushed a button for - you actually had to get out of your car, open the garage door, get back in the car and pull in. (It was the "norm" for most homes to have ONE car, and ONE garage!!)
When store managers look about 12.
Now this one is sad . . . very sad . . . .
When your 16 yr. old has never heard of The Beach Boys!! :'(
I think son number two must have some very old customers. He's an elecritician and was doing some wiring when the householder asked him if he was old enough to do such 'dangerous' work. It was his 31st birthday!
Kathyx
When your friend from school becomes a grandma
Or your "baby brother" becomes a grandpa!!
Yikes.....(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-shocked003.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
;D
When you go to a vintage market and you see things like LPs or 45 records or fountain pens and other things you used when you were a kid.
When you want to take a photo with your camera and they tell you that the film is out of production!
When you start saying"in my days"
When you look in the mirror with your reading glasses and see all the wrinkles, oh boy!!
Old is when you watch American Idol and they are singing songs from the 60's. Your daughter (24 years old) asks what kinds of songs are those?!?!?
jpd