You know you're old when...

Feb 11, 2011 18:09

(projects with best old codger voice)

You young whippersnappers...

/codger voice

Jazz girl is going to be 22 in a month. Yoinks! Where does the time go?

A friend of mine sent me a spammy email about getting old. It made me laugh - because I REMEMBER WHEN LIFE WAS LIKE THAT!

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phillip2637 February 12 2011, 02:14:25 UTC
I only missed #5. Aaaaargghhh!

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mdlbear February 12 2011, 02:54:04 UTC
15 out of 15. I turn 64 four weeks from Sunday.

But it isn't me who's old; my mom just turned 90.

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perletwo February 12 2011, 04:47:46 UTC
The young whippersnappers in our office did not get a Pet Shop Boys reference the boss made today. We oldsters kept trying to explain the whole early 80s music video thing to them. I felt like the ancient of days.

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fenchurche February 12 2011, 04:47:59 UTC
When I was a kid on Guam, we actually only had ONE television station... and it didn't come on until 10am and went off at 8pm. Of course, it also got all of its content on "videotape" (it was the monster big tapes they used to use) brought in once a week by plane, so our news broadcasts were all a week late.

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helenkacan February 12 2011, 11:47:26 UTC
100%

(though I'd call 2. "diners" or "restaurants" with table-side jukeboxes, because there were no "coffee shops" or "donut shops" for that matter)
PLUS
I'm giving myself bonus points for:
1) coal delivery
2) rag pickup (oh, hi, horsie)
3) occasionally a live chicken in the basement to be slaughtered for a special dinner

... all in the big city of Toronto

So I think I qualify to be extra-old (aka ancient) dirt, the kind that Daniel Jackson gets to play around in.

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bigbumble February 12 2011, 14:34:07 UTC
Only missed number three and that was because the milk was in paper cartons.

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helenkacan February 12 2011, 15:51:48 UTC
Wow, thzt sounds pretty advanced for the times. Were those available to buy at the grocery store?

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bigbumble February 13 2011, 00:15:48 UTC
Yes

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