Now I Know I'm Old.
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debris4spikeJust a joke I was given - but as I am now the age I am, it is too true to be funny!!!
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Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast good when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
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Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom
1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
(There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
Sad to say, I am officially ANCIENT!!
~~~
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast good when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
~~~
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom
1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
(There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
Sad to say, I am officially ANCIENT!!
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Date: 2013-02-23 12:47 pm (UTC)I just wonder which ones you didn't remember!
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Date: 2013-02-24 08:08 pm (UTC)I don't remember- 1. Sweet cigarettes (what are these) 2. Coffee shops with juke boxes but that could be because I didn't do to a coffee shop until I was 18 3. Newsreels before the movie- but again, that could be because I didn't go to the movies often. 4. Cork popguns this is because my Mom didn't approve of guns as toys, so my brothers didn't have these. 5. Wash tub wringers - My mom did have one but I don't remember it.
(I'm 60)
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Date: 2013-02-27 08:02 pm (UTC)Although Mum & Dad used to get upset if we bought any ... we had a weekly sweet allowance as a kid.
My grandfather had a pop gun with cork from when my nephews were younger - but as they hadn't been allowed to play with it, neither were we!
Sadly we had a wringer that we used right up till I was an early teen - nothing better for getting water out of nappies (I remember that for my baby brothers) - but also good at flattening finger tips!
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Date: 2013-02-27 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-23 12:08 am (UTC)I remember when the post office delivered twice a day.
I remember when $5 filled up the tank in our pickup. I even remember gas wars. Gas stations would drop their prices to beat each other. I remember when the gas attendant would wash your windows, check the oil and pump the gas for you. If you filled up your tank you would get a free drinking glass.
I remember green stamps and gold stamps. You bought merchandise/gas and they gave you stamps. You stuck them in books. When you had full books, you could turn them in for merchandise. I still have a candy bowl my mom got with green stamps.
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Date: 2013-02-23 12:50 pm (UTC)I had forgotten the double delivery of post, as well.
When I was a teen at school we had electrical strikes and I di much of my homework via candle light - we were lucky we were campers so had a gas ring to finish cooking meals.
Oh yes Green Shield Stamps - we got a lot of luxury bits that way.
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Date: 2013-02-23 11:31 am (UTC)I remember the *first* ever McDonald's coming to Loiner-Land... I was 15 so it's about.... ummm... Four or five years ago... hehe Fine then, it was 25 ago! We were STOKED! It became the hub for all school kids in the entire City, it seemed, for a long time, we met outside it, we ate there after q-ing at least 30 minutes cos it was overwhelmed with the amount of people who wanted to use it...
... Now 25 years later our City Centre has 5 of them and they are dotted around outside of the City too, many, many of them... And we're suffering the worst child obesity crisis in Europe... I'm just sayin' :-/
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Date: 2013-02-23 12:50 pm (UTC)Its great how most people who commented added something else to this memory list.
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Date: 2013-02-24 07:41 pm (UTC)My children have to ask. And their father is very good at getting dinner ready when I come home tired after a long days work. :)
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Date: 2013-02-27 08:04 pm (UTC)