Attention Signs you're getting old.

[NotHardUp1]

You recall when people using obscenities or profanities in shopping or dining businesses were escorted out.

 

[NotHardUp1]

You remember Republicans claimed the Constitution was sacred and argued for its original intent.

The American flag was inviolate.

Democrats dominated Dixie.

Pop dance music wasn't trying to look like vertical fucking.

You collected pop bottles to reclaim deposits.

You drank pop.

You thought drinking Tang meant you were astronauts in the making,

 

[smokeshadow]

and P.F. Flyers mady you run faster and jump higher

 

[PrinceCory]

Who is going to be first to admit to using a piss bottle instead of staggering to the bog in the dark at 4am. Oh that's disgusting I hear you say. Yes, fair comment.
At least I'm not pissing in a brightly lit warehouse like they do at Amazon.

That does not sound like any fun to have to deal with the next day (dumping and rinsing the bottle). My bathroom in pretty close. Just stumbling out of the bedroom, make a 180 degree left turn and I'm in the bathroom. I have a night light in the hallway and one in the bathroom so that I don't need to turn on the bright lights.

 

[rareboy]

You leave the wedding at 9:30 before the dancing starts.

 

[Kahaih]

You leave the wedding at 9:30 before the dancing starts.

Were there no facilities?

 

[jjonn3]

Your read posts titled "Signs you're getting old" hoping against hope that none of them are things you do.

 

[pigface]

You recall when people using obscenities or profanities in shopping or dining businesses were escorted out.

And restaurants required the wearing of a jacket and tie.

 

[Peloso]

You remember when stores were closed on Sundays.

Ashtrays were everywhere because you could smoke everywhere.

You couldn't say "Sure, I've seen the First Lady's snatch. Everybody has"

 

[smokeshadow]

public pay telephone calls cost 5 cents

There was a Bugs Bunny cartoon in addition to previews before a movie at a theater

One had to get up from your seat and walk over to the television to change the channel

You rode standing up in the passenger seat of an automobile so that the driver had to fling his/her right arm out in front of you during a panic stop to keep you from flying out the windshield

 

[NotHardUp1]

You couldn't say "Sure, I've seen the First Lady's snatch. Everybody has"

That was no lady.

 

[backagain]

Where you are counting down the days.

 

[Rickrock]

What smokeshadow said except pay phones were 10 cents. I always made sure, or my mother made sure, I was carrying a dime so I could make an emergency call. I always made sure I was carrying a handkerchief.

 

[pigface]

Anytime I passed a payphone, I'd press the "coin return" button. Sometimes I got a few coins - and you could actually buy something of value with those 3 or 4 coins!

 

[Vannie]

I'm trying to set up new wireless printers and I'm about to hurl myself down a flight of steps.

I will probably still be alive so I will crawl to the gun cabinet and shoot myself.

I will press my Life Alert Pendant before though.

 

[smokeshadow]

What smokeshadow said except pay phones were 10 cents. I always made sure, or my mother made sure, I was carrying a dime so I could make an emergency call. I always made sure I was carrying a handkerchief.

IIRC, pay phones were 5 cents until sometime in the early 1950's, then went to 10 cents until the 1980's

 

[rareboy]

We will buy a second hand car rather than give up a CD player.

 

[rareboy]

Sciatica is no longer just something your parents had.

 

[me203]

You remember a time when a STD was only an inconvenience.

On the other hand, you are really old if you remember a time when today's inconvenient STDs were a lot more serious thing.

 

[fredroy]

Sciatica is no longer just something your parents had.

I should look that up. Some day. I don't have it. The four pins in my hip, yeah, nothing to do with my back.