I'm so old I remember............?

[Shepherd 2]

ISOIR when the seat of my desk at school was part of the metal frame of the desk of the student behind me and both were bolted to the floor. Also my desk had a round hole in the right hand corner to hold a bottle of ink, and it was called an ink well.


Shep+

 

[mikeyb]

ISOIR that I remember all the girls wearing leg warmers because it was all the chicks in Fame wore.

 

[Shepherd 2]

ISOIR I remember before indoor plumbing, when we had a "thunder mug" in the bedroom for those night time emergencies.


Shep+

 

[Jory]

IsoIr

 

[cbtfan]

Isoir my grandmother having gas lighting in her house.

 

[DaddyBadger]

 

[frankfrank]

ISOIR using carbon paper to make copies. (And, if I wanted to make a copy of a document that already existed, it was hopeless.)

 

[dynk]

ISOIR needing a "church key" (bottle opener) to drink a beer

 

[DaddyBadger]

ISOIR needing a "church key" (bottle opener) to drink a beer

 

[seven_sins]

ISOIR when dynk had less than 1000 posts.

 

[dynk]

ISIOR meeting Jack Kerouac (in a bar of course)

 

[Shepherd 2]

ISOIR when all photographs were in black and white, and if you did not keep still for a few second after the flash went off, the pictures came out blurry.

Shep+

 

[dynk]

We still have $2 bills

ISOIR real silver dollars

 

[dynk]

ISOIR when breakfast was a dollar

 

[frankfrank]

ISOIR buying a brand new car for about $3,000.

 

[dynk]

ISOIR buying cigarettes at the store for my mom for 30 cents a pack

 

[Lefty]

ISOIR when dynk and shep tried to break up adam and steve but croynan told that to wait until the kids had something to shave

 

[dynk]

ISOIR I don't remember that.

 

[dt75006]

I'm so old, I remember when kids could play with toys that didn't require a federally mandated warning label because we were smart enough to know not to eat the pieces.

Just shows you how stupid today's kids are.

 

[Lefty]

and the older kids could eat each other without the drug store type stickers or more succinctly, when rubbers were for feet and preventing pregnancy