You know you're old when...

My back hurts. Get off of my lawn!

you ran home after your mom sounded the "dinner horn"

Remember the days when we all walked five miles to school...uphill both ways...with snow up to our necks...in June?

In our area these days, the school bus will sit outside every kid's front door for 5+ minutes while they put their mittens on indoors for the frigid 55 degree outside temperature. Oh, and let's not forget the helicopter parents who drive their kids to/from school to spare them the trauma of a bus ride!

Get off my lawn, kid...and turn that noise that you call music DOWN!!!!!

(I propose that every post in this thread end with get off my lawn, to weed out the young 'uns posing as old farts.)

You're home all day doing nothing but still need a nap to wake up to keep doing nothing.

Had to be home when the street lights came on.

There was one phone in the house, a rotary dial in the kitchen with an 18" cord.....if you were lucky and wanted privacy it was near a door to another room so you could reach into the next room.

when you realized 1 or 2 generations dont even know what is Limp Bizkit..

Do you drink the hotdog water too? It's free at Costco

1MOREMOD wrote

You walked to school in the snow uphill? Had homemade clothes. Were told to come home when it got dark and were gone for entire day with no supervision. Disnt have video games.

This. Walking to/from school, sometimes alone. Out all day without a phone or Mom even knowing where you were. Come home when it gets dark. Always playing some sort of sport with the neighborhood kids. Hardly any toys that couldn't be used outside. Milk deliveries, usually stacked between the main and screen doors. Paper routes. No one's mother worked. Three-on-the-tree gear shifting. Leaded gas. Penny candy stores where it really did cost a penny per piece. Cold beer was more expensive than room temp beer.

Murf993 wrote

Had to be home when the street lights came on.

Street lights? Are you talking about the electric kind, or the gas ones that the street light lighter had to fire up late every afternoon?

Get off my lawn, kid!!!!!

M_Six wrote

This. Walking to/from school, sometimes alone. Out all day without a phone or Mom even knowing where you were. Come home when it gets dark. Always playing some sort of sport with the neighborhood kids. Hardly any toys that couldn't be used outside. Milk deliveries, usually stacked between the main and screen doors. Paper routes. No one's mother worked. Three-on-the-tree gear shifting. Leaded gas. Penny candy stores where it really did cost a penny per piece. Cold beer was more expensive than room temp beer.

I was walking to school when I was six, can you imagine that now? I can't remember getting a drive to school once in my entire life.

Palala808 wrote

You're home all day doing nothing but still need a nap to wake up to keep doing nothing.

This seems like me every weekend when the girlfriend has her kids. I'll stay at her place Friday night. Saturday morning I go back home and find myself asleep on the couch before 10:00. Laundry, some cleaning, maybe a workout or a walk, then BAM!!! Back asleep on the couch by 2:00. I think sleeping 4-5 hours a night M-F catches up with me and by the weekend I'm spent.

yco wrote

when you realized 1 or 2 generations dont even know what is Limp Bizkit..

Who? Kidding...

1MOREMOD wrote

Do you drink the hotdog water too? It's free at Costco

Just the hot dog water? No chocolate starfish?

I remember when we finally got a colour TV.....we were living large then. Only 3 channels thought.

Anyone else here ever been on an elevator listening to an instrumental KISS track and realize that our youth is over?

Get off my lawn, kid!!!!!

When your GF hit you with 07734 or 143 on your pager...

Murf993 wrote

I remember when we finally got a colour TV.....we were living large then. Only 3 channels thought.

Me, too! It was 1968, and my father took the old B&W TV out of the living room just as I was sitting down to watch Flipper. He had the new color TV hooked up before Flipper started, and it was the first show that I ever saw in color.

Get off my lawn, kid!!!!!

Palala808 wrote

When your GF hit you with 07734 or 143 on your pager...

If you had a pager when you were dating, you're not old enough for this thread

Get off my lawn!

Murf993 wrote

I remember when we finally got a colour TV.....we were living large then. Only 3 channels thought.

And we were the remote control. Had to get up to turn the dial.

Palala808 wrote

When your GF hit you with 07734 or 143 on your pager...

Pager? Too young to be an old fart!

Get off my lawn, kid!!!!!

You were your dad’s television remote.