You know you're old when...

[M_Six]

Ours was ED7-1912. ED stood Edgewater.

[zgood4u]

ours was FU7-3643

[gjm120]

Originally Posted by zgood4u

ours was FU7-3643

Mine still is when telemarketers get through.

[zgood4u]

FU was for Fulton

[wdb]

Originally Posted by gjm120

Remembering old phone numbers got mentioned a couple of days ago. How about remembering old phone numbers when the first 2 digits were a word? Like where I grew up 766-xxxx was snow x-xxxx. 723-xxxx was raymond x-xxxx. (No area codes for local dialing back then)

FAculty six, oh eight, four six. It was our party line number (remember those?) when I was very young. When my folks moved a few years later they somehow managed to take the number with them. So it was their number for over 60 years! When area codes came around they went through a few, but the base number never changed.

[zgood4u]

Just said in my home.."Hey, you wanna flip the tape over"

[Esteban]

When I was a kid growing up in L.A. it was DUnkirk (38x-xxxx). Don't remember the actual number. That was too damn long ago. lol

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by M_Six

That's the crux of it. My Dad worked his butt off from his mid-teens and raised 5 kids. I have no kids and didn't see the combat (Korea) and hard times my Dad did. I've also been the beneficiary of modern medicine. My Dad had quadruple bypass in his 60's and a failed valve replacement in his 70's. He was a victim of an Irish meat and potatoes diet and second hand smoke his whole life, even though he hated cigarettes. I'm sure that's why he looked older than he was in his later years. But his sacrifices gave me the opportunities he didn't have. I'll never forget that.

"Twins study shows smoking ages your face faster":
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/31/h...ins/index.html

"Facial changes caused by smoking: a comparison between smoking and nonsmoking identical twins":
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23924651/

[TiMSport]

I'm just glad that I'm not a smoker nor do I hang with any. Though I'm in my early 50s, I can easily pass for 10 or more years younger. I attribute part of that to not smoking, and also by eating healthy and exercising regularly for many years. It makes me feel good when I see others my age that look old AF.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

I'm just glad that I'm not a smoker nor do I hang with any. Though I'm in my early 50s, I can easily pass for 10 or more years younger. I attribute part of that to not smoking, and also by eating healthy and exercising regularly for many years. It makes me feel good when I see others my age that look old AF.

Good for you about smoking, Tim

I just posted in the music thread about smoking. Wish I never did but glad I quit. Been about 25 years now and I'm still here.

PS - I get angry to the point of violence whenever I smell tobacco now. lol

[dscabra]

I can remember when it was virtually impossible to be in a room full of people anywhere that you didn't have smoke in the air. Airplanes were the worst! My mother was a heavy smoker and died at the age of 56 from lung cancer. Now I can smell cigarette smoke in my car if someone in the car in front of me is smoking. My son-in-law is a smoker and has tried and failed many times to quit. At least he doesn't smoke around my grand daughter or in the house or car at all. I wish he could find a way to quit.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by dscabra

I can remember when it was virtually impossible to be in a room full of people anywhere that you didn't have smoke in the air. Airplanes were the worst! My mother was a heavy smoker and died at the age of 56 from lung cancer. Now I can smell cigarette smoke in my car if someone in the car in front of me is smoking. My son-in-law is a smoker and has tried and failed many times to quit. At least he doesn't smoke around my grand daughter or in the house or car at all. I wish he could find a way to quit.

I did it with the help of Nicorette. It took me many times, because I kept going back to it. Eventually it stuck. I just kept telling myself how horrible it would be for my family to watch me die that way. Of cancer or a heart attack or stroke, etc. I couldn't do that to them and that was what ultimately worked for me.

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Good for you about smoking, Tim

I just posted in the music thread about smoking. Wish I never did but glad I quit. Been about 25 years now and I'm still here.

PS - I get angry to the point of violence whenever I smell tobacco now. lol

Yeah, I'm glad that my family didn't smoke when growing up, nor any of my friends throughout life. Well, of course there was the occasional stoner I would befriend in high school, but not the tightknit group sort of friend. Lol. He was the type that would bust out his electric guitar and amp when I'd come over and have some puffs while doing it.

Good for you to have gotten over the habit of smoking. Definitely better late than never. I'm sure many people could only wish they could kick the habit.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Yeah, I'm glad that my family didn't smoke when growing up, nor any of my friends throughout life. Well, of course there was the occasional stoner I would befriend in high school, but not the tightknit group sort of friend. Lol. He was the type that would bust out his electric guitar and amp when I'd come over and have some puffs while doing it.

Good for you to have gotten over the habit of smoking. Definitely better late than never. I'm sure many people could only wish they could kick the habit.

I wish it was just a habit. It's an addiction that is very hard to quit.

When I was growing up everybody smoked. Both my parents, all my friends. I knew when I was very little that I would smoke. Glad it's different today.

[Dpc2u]

Well, you know you are old when BOOF-M3 , who is no spring chicken himself, calls you an antique.

😁

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by Dpc2u

Well, you know you are old when BOOF-M3 , who is no spring chicken himself, calls you an antique.

😁

Did you at least tell him to hobble off your lawn?

[Dpc2u]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Did you at least tell him to hobble off your lawn?

Dang, missed opportunity. 😒

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Dpc2u

Dang, missed opportunity. 😒

Never too late.

Give him one of these.

[Dpc2u]

Hey BOOF-M3 , look up! You whipper snapper!

[BOOF-M3]

Originally Posted by Dpc2u

Hey BOOF-M3 , look up! You whipper snappers!

@Esteban is one of my music guys. Don't use his pics against me haha.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by BOOF-M3

@Esteban is one of my music guys. Don't use his pics against me haha.

[BOOF-M3]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Wow really? You buy a pit bull for protection and this is what uou get, hiding behind the couch the first sign of an intruder haha. (I fixed it)