Attention Signs you're getting old.

[NotHardUp1]

Men wore colors. Straight men.

You owned striped pants.

You still have a "leisure jacket" in the end of your closet. Moths won't touch it.

 

[NotHardUp1]

You can remember when cologne and after shave were marketed to straight men.

 

[NotHardUp1]

You post multiple replies on JUB at 4:00 a.m. in the same thread.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Your proofreading skills have become absolete.

 

[rareboy]

You took a course in MS-DOS.

You learned computing with punch cards.

 

[FPNY]

You learned computing with punch cards.

wasn't that fortran or some such....

 

[rareboy]

Yup.

 

[The Loner]

 

[smokeshadow]

You remember your grandparents saving Monkey Ward catalogues and what they were good for.

You remember looking through the Sears Farm Equipment catalog to find a weather vane

 

[metta]

No 'splainin to do. Been there. Done that.

I'm sorry about my comment above. Wishing you health!

 

[metta]

You remember your grandparents saving Monkey Ward catalogues and what they were good for.

And JC Penney's, Sears and Robinson's. My parents always asked us to go through them and circle anything we wanted for Christmas. My dad leased an optometry office space in a Montgomery Wards for over 30 years. Christmas' were always over the top.

 

[metta]

You know who Pipi Longstocking is.

We had a school trip to the children's theater to go watch it.

 

[gsdx]

I'm sorry about my comment above. Wishing you health!

Thank you, but it's one of those things (actually, a lot of them) that will never get better.

 

[smokeshadow]

You learned computing with punch cards.

That would be with Fortran Watfor

 

[me203]

You still have a "leisure jacket" in the end of your closet. Moths won't touch it.

Even moths have standards.

 

[me203]

I remember Pippi Longstocking books. I can't remember for sure, but I am wondering if they weren't sold occasionally thorugh those Scholastic Book Club programs when I was young. It's also possible I had older used copies.

 

[fredroy]

^ If only you knew.

I have been informed. I wasn't trying to be rude or offensive.

I catch myself using my arms to stand up instead of just standing up. So that's where the squats idea came from. But it's more like half knee bends while holding onto the kitchen counter to keep my balance while the Keurig makes a cup of coffee.

I've watched my mom and dad acting so proud that (a) they brought a cart from the parking lot to the store and (b) didn't need to use a walker. That was a trip. Then when mom was living here and finally decided she actually needed to use "that damn walker", geesh. We had been saying that for months. She fell in her bedroom and had to crawl to the bed to get up. No beer involved.

Anyway. SS hits next Wednesday.... so that's a thing that snuck up on me. Beats going to work at 6am.

 

[me203]

You remember buying a Hardy Boys book that had a copyright in the 1930s or 1940s. Bonus points if the book had a dust jacket.

 

[me203]

You showered with your classmates after PE.

 

[me203]

It's also possible I had older used copies.

I'm pretty sure Pippi Longstocking wasn't that uncommon, but I did have plenty of contact with older books. Sometimes ones long since forgotten. In elementary school, a classmate and I both did oral book reports on a Tom Swift book. My book was one published in the early 20th century. His was from whatever was the-then current Tom Swift revival. My book might have been about inventing TV or an airship. His was probably something to do with outer space. After class, he commented it sounded like the two books a lot different.