Butterfly Kisses 2301 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 I remember milk being delivered in Toronto when I was young. It came in glass bottles with cardboard lids and was delivered from a horse drawn wagon. Now that's old This was gonna be my post. As a kid I remember feeding the horse while the delivery man was taking milk and ice cream into the local convenience store. But we didn't call them convenience stores then. Your old when two bits was like winning a lottery (lotteries didn't exist) and you could buy a coke, popsicle, and five chocolate 1 cent mini hershey bars. And it was safe as a child under 10 to go to the store on your own and spend the entire day running around the neighborhood with no concern for anything other than finding your next adventure. Now you got me started, fuck I am old, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yabut 1460 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 Remember litening to Prince sing the song 1999 and think man that's so far away. Wondering what you will be doing then. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingguy 300291 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 Damn, you know your old when you see the movie Patton on tv, and remember watching it in a theatre when it first came out Same holds true for the Sean Connery James Bond movies And it cost 25 cents to get in, and a bag of popcorn 10 cents RG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trucido peritus lingua 2699 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know that you are old when you get up in the morning and you are stiff in all of the wrong places!! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingguy 300291 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know your old when your memories come back in instalments Even though not a baseball fan, you can remember when the Montreal Expos played at Jerry Park (I got dragged, yes dragged there as a kid) RG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Dog 179138 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know you are old when.... A TV was furniture. And every TV had a lamp on top... So you could read the TV guide... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
renegade 11027 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 When your dad brought home that first t.v when there were no seat belts in the car when there were no expiry dates on food when you bought gas by the gallon when the only lawnmower any one had was a "pushmower" when stewardesses were hot when you actually had to read and do math "manually" in school Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reuben Sandwich 13841 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know your old when your memories come back in instalments Even though not a baseball fan, you can remember when the Montreal Expos played at Jerry Park (I got dragged, yes dragged there as a kid) RG Sorry but Jarry Park. The first and only bat day (full size) was mayhem and noisy in an all metaal stadium. Posted via Mobile Device 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miss Scarlett 25073 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know your old when not only do you remember the Expo's but you still have a youppi doll! You know your old when your memories come back in instalments Even though not a baseball fan, you can remember when the Montreal Expos played at Jerry Park (I got dragged, yes dragged there as a kid) RG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest S**a*Q Report post Posted July 17, 2011 Move aside BetaMax... There's a new kid in town... The family and I first rented a VCR... First movie ever watched on the "newest" technology... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andee 220524 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know you're old when: - You and your girlfriends would debate over which show was lamer - The Partridge Family or the Brady Bunch - As a kid you could roam the streets freely with your friends to go trick or treating at Halloween without parents as chaperones - Crackjack came in a box (not a bag) and there was actually a prize in the box (not some joke on a piece of paper). - You raced home from school every day to watch the Flintstones that started at noon. When it was over, that was your cue to head back to school. - Everyone was busy at 6:00 so they could watch Truth or Consequences with Bob Barker with the brown hair. - Kids birthday parties were just that!! The only parent at a kids birthday party was the birthday kid's mom who served hotdogs or pizza, ice cream and cake. (No parents and $300 outing to cosmic adventure). - Every teenage girl wanted to get her hair cut like Farrah Fawcett - Every teenage boy wanted or had a poster of her on his bedroom wall. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevecurious 42059 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 this used to be high end gaming technology: AND you remember the way restaurants used to have their smoking and non smoking areas situated: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingguy 300291 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 - Every teenage boy wanted or had a poster of her on his bedroom wall. I had that poster But my favorite was, and had her on my bedroom wall Mom shook her head at me, dad said I had good taste...mind you what could he say, my first "readings" of Playboy were the ones I stole from his stash RG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andee 220524 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know you're old when... - You watch "That 70s Show" and realize you were 17 in 1977 just like the characters on that show. - You could run in platform shoes - You saw Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke" in the theatre. - The park and ride at Hunt Club and Uplands Drive was the Airport Drive-In. - When KFC was Kentucky Fried Chicken and it was finger lickin good then (they cooked the chicken in high pressure fryers that actually made the skin crisp and the meat moist). - You remember it was big news when Pierre Elliott Trudeau married Margaret Sinclair - This was considered a modern music system: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest S**a*Q Report post Posted July 17, 2011 - Crackjack came in a box (not a bag) and there was actually a prize in the box (not some joke on a piece of paper). They changed it to the bag as it is easier to throw and receive at baseball games... Hence the song "Take me out to the ballgame" which makes reference to buying me peanuts and cracker jacks. The people that hand out the concessions at games normally just launch it, hence the company deciding to put it in bags :) Bags have no corners. Useless information that is running around in my head. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andee 220524 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 They changed it to the bag as it is easier to throw and receive at baseball games...Hence the song "Take me out to the ballgame" which makes reference to buying me peanuts and cracker jacks. The people that hand out the concessions at games normally just launch it, hence the company deciding to put it in bags :) Bags have no corners. Useless information that is running around in my head. I got that, but they got cheap and took away the prize (usually a little cheap useless piece of plastic) but dammit it was the only thing some of us had to look forward to all week when we got our treat. When a treat was just that! A treat. A box of crackerjack or a bag of chips, a chocolate bar and single bottle of coke or 7-up once a week on Saturday night after supper but ONLY if you were good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kubrickfan 12836 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 "First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull up your zipper and, finally, you forget to pull it down." George Burns Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicolette Vaughn 294340 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know you're old when you or your parents drove one of these... And had one of these in this dreaded color in your house... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwertyaccount 15793 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You did it while watching the Johnny Carson monologue You adjusted the TV signal using the antenna rotor after changing channels If you weren't home when your phone rang, you missed that call, and didn't care, if it's important, they'll call again. You had to wait 10 minutes for the tubes in the TV to warm up before watching it You remember when the space invaders arcade game came into the malls Your parents didn't need to check your Halloween candy Pong was the high end home gaming system: See pong in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkUvfL8T1I Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingguy 300291 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You know your old when the floor gets lower and lower every day, and if you drop a loonie, you just leave it...it's worth a loonie not to have to bend down to pick it up RG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Dog 179138 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 oooohh... the first car that my parents had that I remember... a 1956 Dodge Coronet! with a push button transmission!!! My brother liked the reverse one, he pried it off as a 4 year old... AND LOST IT! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BarrhavenWoody 10776 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You're old when you read George Orwell's book "1984" in high school and it was set in the future. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingguy 300291 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 Before Charlie's Angels was a movie, it was a tv series and the best Charlie's Angels episode, Angels In Chains ah, fond memories RG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevecurious 42059 Report post Posted July 17, 2011 You remember David Hasselhoff before he started referring to himself as "The Hoff." Saturday morning still had cartoons: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest W***ledi*Time Report post Posted July 17, 2011 .. when your most unshakable and enduring mental image of a madam is that of Amanda Blake in the role of Miss Kitty, proprietress of the Long Branch Saloon, a bordello that existed "at the law's discretion" (i.e. under Marshall Dillon's *ahem* approving eye) in Dodge City, Kansas on the most-watched show on television ...Gunsmoke! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
