I'm so old that...

[ferri]

i did a quick search and didn't see any threads like this. so here's one. lol


i'm so old that i remember making beds without fitted sheets!

[Captain Awesome]

I'm so old, I remember rewinding videos before returning them to Blockbusters.

[Catz]

beta and 8 tracks :)

[GordonH]

Spending hours taping songs off my LP's onto cassette's, thank goodness for iPod's & MP3 players.


If the above broke any copyright laws, I am sorry but in my defence I was just kid with a walkman.

Added: besides those personal on the go LP player were to damn heavy & the battery costs were incredible. lol

[ferri]

everything was closed on Sunday.

[GordonH]

Having to get off couch to change the channel on the TV, even though their was only 2. lol

Oops my bad.... chesterfield as my parents called it.

[Iamsomeone]

Banks were closed on Saturday and Sunday so if you forgot to get money on Friday, your weekend was toast.

[ferri]

girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school!

[xjeepguy]

I could cruise for the evening in my big block Chevelle for 10 bucks worth of gas

[coffeeFreak]

As soon as it was warm enough we went almost everywhere barefoot.

[ferri]

tv was black and white unless you bought this magic film thingy to put over your screen.

[Iamsomeone]

Not sure I like this thread anymore ferri :) It's bringing back too many memories and making me feel really old!

When I was a young kid and went to the dentist, if the dentist wanted to rinse your mouth, he would hand you a paper cup of water and ask you to swish and spit in the sink.

Now my dentist has full recliners, tv's and massaging chairs. We've come a long way baby!

[ferri]

hahaha! i know what you mean Iamsomeone! (remember trying to spit in that darn sink with your mouth numb?)

cartoons were only on tv on Saturday and then only until noon. :(

[just popping in]

Minimum wage was $0.90 an hour and I was excited to get a raise to $1.20 an hour!

[steven lloyd]

I’m so old TV’s were B&W and in a wood box and had rabbit ears, we played guns with sticks, we respected the police and kids older than us and grown-ups, milk was delivered to your door (we had special doors to leave milk in case no one home), the first calculator was the size of a hard cover book and did adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, and the bank paid you daily interest (paid out once a month) for you to keep money in their chequing accounts.

I also remember that while growing up in Calgary and still in elementary school we had a “special drill” one day and were sent home when the air raid sirens went off with a note for our parents to complete to record how long it took us. It was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We also got to watch shows telling us what to do if we saw a mushroom cloud (ie. duck, hide under your desk, hide in a culvert or ditch). Yup, it was all under control.

When we landed on the moon I was old enough to watch every second of news coverage I could. It was 1969 and I was twelve. I was too young for my parents to allow me to go to Woodstock though. I remember the music (they just don't make music like that anymore) but I don't think I ever forgave them after seeing the pictures of all the topless girls that were there.