You Know You're Getting Old When...

[chickened]

When thongs were something worn on your feet.

 

[DuckLady]

Ed.

 

[bluenkimchi]

....when you looked so cool using a Walkman or CD player and Ipods didn't exist

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

....when you looked so cool using a Walkman or CD player and not Ipods

I remember when bigger was better with portable music...




In the movies anyway.... Cause I was a po country boy...

 

[mickey328]

...when you prefer the "early bird" dinner specials so you can get home early

 

[henjoy]

Love the thong response. I offered to let my granddaughter wear my thongs and her eyes nearly fell out of her head! Explanations followed.

 

[bluenkimchi]

when your next door nieghbors used to be few blocks or even a few miles away and now they are 10 feet a way

 

[onedoodle3]

When you had to wait when the phone rang to make sure it was the correct number of rings for your line....and after answering, telling the caller to not talk until the neighbor hang up their phone! Party phones were the pits!! (try saying that 3 times fast!!)


when your roller skates were 4 wheels like a car and were metal and came with a key...(for the youngers on here, the key was what you used to lengthen or shorten them to your size... At least mine were)


when you could go outside and play as a kid and not worry about stranger abductions....( had the scare of my life 2 days ago with my DD in Walmart...almost had the store put on lockdown...)

When music was MUSIC!! And not a bunch of jumbled up sounds or someone talking in a fast voice...


When you could wreck your car and take a ball peen hammer and bang the dent out....try that on today's cars...

and finally, when kids WANTED to go outside and play....cause video games weren't invented yet!!!

 

[OldGuy43]

And speaking of phones; Remember when you just walked next door to talk to your neighbor?

 

[Bunnylady]

And speaking of phones; Remember when you just walked next door to talk to your neighbor?

Geez.

My husband calls me on the cell phone from other parts of the yard (in his defense, it's a wooded 7 acres, but still!)