You know you're old when...

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

Your home phone was a party line.

We had a party line. As a kid, it was fun listening in on the cranky neighbor lady gossip. Heh!

Our phone number was 759W.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Indeed, we lived in an era before the Internet. I can't imagine how lazy I'd be if I grew up in today's era, not having to do shit and being handled with the presence of terms I had never heard of like micro aggression, safe space. WTF?

I still have my childhood crystal set. My dad helped me build it when I was in grade school. I kept it in my Teepee in the backyard. Dad strung a long-wire antenna from a Bamboo pole to the house, plus put in a grounding rod. I could pick up 1 or 2 local AM radio stations. To me, it seemed like magic.

Just for fun I put up an antenna a year ago and hooked it up. Of course, it still works. The only thing that has changed is the name of the AM stations and quality of content.

[Fast.F10]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

We had a party line. As a kid, it was fun listening in on the cranky neighbor lady gossip. Heh!

Our phone number was 759W.

ahhh yes, the pipeline.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

I still have my childhood crystal set. My dad helped me build it when I was in grade school. I kept it in my Teepee in the backyard.

When I was in elementary school, we lived less than a mile from the WKBW transmitter. For those not familiar, it is a 50,000 watt (maximum broadcast power) clear-channel AM station, and can be heard in at least 17 states on most nights if you tune to 1520 AM. Being that close to the transmitter, my boy scout radio merit badge was one of those old 1970's ear plugs with a glass diode attached. No need for an antenna, ground, or tuning coil. Heck, my stereo record player at the time would play their signal off the air if I didn't put on resistor caps on the open aux input ports...and it didn't even have a radio feature!

Oh, it bears mentioning that despite being exposed to all of that RF radiation as a child, I turned out perfectly normal.....

[rwheels]

You must be old, if you've ever been here. (watch in full screen)

[M_Six]

When you pay your CC balance, forget you did, then pay it again the next day.

D'oh!!!

Guess I won't have much to pay at the end of this billing cycle.

[TiMSport]

When those little aches and pains don't simply go away anymore

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

When those little aches and pains don't simply go away anymore

Even worse, when you know they're going to occur. Like my back every time I get up from my recliner. Or my arthritic thumbs after every bike ride.

[rwheels]

Hint: MAD magazine.

[W4HG0N]

you remember how happy you were to finally have a motorola beeper

[Buug959]

You start a story with "It was the mid-seventies and some friends and I..."

[TiMSport]

When you had to walk to school uphill both ways.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

When you had to walk to school uphill both ways.

Thru the snow, even in summer

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Thru the snow, even in summer

You had to do summer school?

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by M_Six

You had to do summer school?

See? He's old!

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by M_Six

You had to do summer school?

AFTER chores

[UncleWede]

You saw Frazer/Ali on TV

[Sara]

You spin the mouse wheel for a few seconds to find your birth year.

[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

You saw Frazer/Ali on TV

They are on now, fight #1, round 7.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Littlebear

They are on now, fight #1.

Viewing round 1 right now. No sound?!

[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Viewing round 1 right now. No sound?!

I have sound. ABC, ch. 7
What a fight!

[Esteban]

Hope my cable TV, or whoever, gets their shit together soon.