I'm so old I Remember when:

[Cynthia12]

I'm so old I'm forgetting to read the title of the thread.

Perfect!

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm so old I remember the day Gary Gilmore said, "Let's do it". January of '77.

Happened in my state. Just a few towns over where he did what he did.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember hearing the nightly reports on the radio news of the Korean War.

 

[The Moonshiner]

a few jars of PMS jelly.

What is this?
I need to know instead of letting my mind wander.

 

[Nomadicus]

What is this?
I need to know instead of letting my mind wander.

Peach, Muscadine, & Satsuma Jam

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I'm so old I remembered something and forgot what the hell it was I remembered!

 

[pertnear09]

What is this?
I need to know instead of letting my mind wander.

Don't open it for goodness sakes.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Don't open it for goodness sakes.

Oh I know better then to do that.
I wouldn't even poke it with a stick.

 

[microchick]

I just use the letter c. 29c for example. Close enough.


Chick, you must be about my age, I remember all these. I think I was in 5th grade too when JFK was shot. Brother and I had gone home for lunch, it was 3 blocks. We had veg beef soup. Back to school, playground deserted. Had aliens captured everybody? But no, we could hear voices coming from the church. Peeked in, the whole school was there praying, every student, teacher, nun and priest. What's going on? Shh, go find your class, the President's been shot ... next thing in my memory, at home, watching the funeral, little John John saluting his father's coffin. Horrible, horrible. I'm 71.

I'm 71 also, a 1853 baby and child of the good old days. You remember....when we came home from school, had a snack waiting for us and then were sent outside to play till supper or the street lights came on whichever came first. 3 stations on the TV and everything was black and white. Mom sent me to the store on my bike with 50 cents to buy milk and a loaf of bread and I got to keep the change for running the errand for her. Remember when a nickel was 'big money?' You could buy a candy bar for a nickel and it was a big bar. Another nickel and you could get a bottle of pop.

Speaking of pop. Anybody remember gathering up pop bottles and taking them back to the store to get enough money to buy a candy bar?

We also drank from the hose, rode in the back of pick up trucks and somehow managed to grow to adulthood.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I'm 71 also, a 1853 baby and child of the good old days.

Wouldn't that be 171?

Speaking of pop. Anybody remember gathering up pop bottles and taking them back to the store to get enough money to buy a candy bar?

I do! I do!

We also drank from the hose, rode in the back of pick up trucks and somehow managed to grow to adulthood.

Who are you calling an adult???