You know you're getting old when...

by nonjwspouse 95 Replies latest social humour

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  tenyearsafter

  
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  stillin

  Yaaaaaay! It's Howdy Doody time!
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  glenster

  You realize "I'm the age my Mom and Dad were when they said that," etc.--"so
  that's how they felt when they said that." You wish you could go back and see
  them again.

  With certain social improvements, you're annoyed at what some young people
  generalize your parents' whole generation was like knowing your parents weren't
  like that.

  The young adult celebrities from your childhood are passing away. With some
  regularity.

  Old people are weird. They don't say, "The Depression" (1930's)--"that was
  tough" and wear fedoras and know about the Big Bands and Bing Crosby. They took
  the wrong mesc at Woodstock and have favorite Firesign Theater albums or such.
  I'm sorry--you're not proper old people. You'll have to be something else.

  You remember when only Valley Girls made so many statements sound like
  questions and acted mundane things out as easier than finding the right words:
  "I went outside? And I was like Brrr!"

  You double space between sentences and put quotation marks after the periods
  and commas.
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  wasblind

  FF. It was a nickel bag in my day, (weed). LOL, the good

  old days.___Jam

  $ 5.00 won't even budge a gas needle, All you get is fumes wit $5.00
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  caliber

  

  
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  jam

  I remerber my father raising Holy hell when gas jumped

  up to 59 cents a gallon.
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  Vidiot

  ...when all your favorite rock stars get married, cut their hair, and put out "greatest hits" albums.
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  Magwitch

  • When we went to Sunday meetings (with a 15 min intermission) in the evenings to show that we were different from Christendom with their Sunday morning worship

  • When I crack a really funny joke about my father's T- topped Trans Am in the 70's and my 22 year old daughter asks what a Trans Am is and what is a T-top.

  • Your favorite song growing up was #10 out of the pink songbook - "From House to House"
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  Sofi

  when you can recognize where this image is from

  For those youngsters, the answer is

  

  I learned "the truth" with this
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  nonjwspouse

  My Mom and I just recognised when we were in an antique shop and noticed we were taking a trip down memory lane...