Attention Signs you're getting old.

[TickTockMan]

A good stretch is the best part of my week.

 

[NotHardUp1]

A good stretch is the best part of my week.

So, you watch Fox & Friends?

 

[NotHardUp1]

I think they called them "flared" pants. Not bell bottoms but still had that flared ankle area. Something like that.

True.

Bell bottoms were noticeably larger. They completely covered the shoe and most could harbor an adult tabby cat.

My striped pants were wine & gray. I was so proud of them, in the 4th grade.

 

[me203]

My striped pants were wine & gray. I was so proud of them, in the 4th grade.

This color can't be wine when uesd for a 4th grader's pants. The pants must have been Welch's grape juice, instead.

 

[me203]

^My comment above also reminds me of something else that might be a sign I'm getting old. I remember a time when I was in school when there wasn't a vendetta to eliminate any/all references to alcohol or tobacco. (Except, of course, the "drinking and smoking is bad!!!!" unit that appeared every year in health class as reliably as a weed that comes back back every year no matter what you try to do to kill it.) I was there in a period of transition. We sang "What Should We Do With the Drunken Sailor" when I was in elementary school. By high school, any reference to alcohol was a no-no. One language teacher mentioned getting rid of cultural posters she had because there was some slight detail that ran afoul of the rules. Despite this, I doubt there was any decrease in alcohol consumption at parties (although I can't say for sure, since I never attended--or was even invited--to a party. )

 

[me203]

Thank you Guys for all the great replies.

Then, of course, there are my replies...but I guess the replies can't all be winners!

 

[me203]

Your famlly's TV set had tubes in it.

 

[me203]

You remember a time when gas stations sold leaded gas.

 

[me203]

You remember swimming nude at the YMCA.

 

[Vannie]

When you write a note to yourself not to take a laxative and a sleeping pill on the same night.

 

[NotHardUp1]

^My comment above also reminds me of something else that might be a sign I'm getting old. I remember a time when I was in school when there wasn't a vendetta to eliminate any/all references to alcohol or tobacco. (Except, of course, the "drinking and smoking is bad!!!!" unit that appeared every year in health class as reliably as a weed that comes back back every year no matter what you try to do to kill it.) I was there in a period of transition. We sang "What Should We Do With the Drunken Sailor" when I was in elementary school. By high school, any reference to alcohol was a no-no. One language teacher mentioned getting rid of cultural posters she had because there was some slight detail that ran afoul of the rules. Despite this, I doubt there was any decrease in alcohol consumption at parties (although I can't say for sure, since I never attended--or was even invited--to a party. )

My junior year in high school we performed a melodrama in theater-in-the-round, "The Drunkard."

Just imagine.

 

[Peloso]

Why am I on this thread?? Who are you people???

 

[Dargelos]

When you write a note to yourself not to take a laxative and a sleeping pill on the same night.

Then you forget that note that you just wrote and take both pills anyway.

 

[rareboy]

You watched Black and white TV into your teens.

 

[Dargelos]

We are watching black and white TV right now, powered by tubes of course. It is possible to show modern programs on 60 year old screens with a little kludging.
But how many of you have listened to big black 78 rpm records?

 

[fredroy]

We are watching black and white TV right now, powered by tubes of course. It is possible to show modern programs on 60 year old screens with a little kludging.
But how many of you have listened to big black 78 rpm records?

I have a foot and a half high stack of 78s. My Dual turntable doesn't do that speed but the ugly needing to be refinished windup record player I have in the shed will. Sounds pretty good, too.

 

[Dargelos]

Get your clockwork record player restored, it will be worth good money.

 

[fredroy]

Get your clockwork record player restored, it will be worth good money.

I suppose. I have it because hubby's parents were about to send it to the dump after is sat in the carport for quite a while. It's been rained on (ok, heavy blowing mist) and there are pieces of veneer missing. But it works.

It's big. Chest high.

 

[pigface]

I needed to buy 8 bottles of milk. I started placing them one by one in the trolley (cart) and a supermarket assistant came over and took over the job.
Was she just being job-enthusiastic, or did I look like I couldn't manage?

 

[fredroy]

She might have just felt like being helpful.