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      04-29-2020, 08:50 AM   #1
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Hahaha, thanks for making me feel like a dinosaur! Those are 8 track tapes. My first car had a 8 track player.

I yanked it out and tossed in a Jenson with cassette player. I was the man then!
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Get off my lawn! 8 track tapes! Damn I feel old. I guess you don't remember when you actually had to go to the bank and deal with tellers before money came out of machines...
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I have a bank book somewhere that the teller would actually hand write the amounts and balances in it.
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I think we need an old people's thread....

$0.35 for a slice of pizza. $0.35 to get on the train or bus. And I remember the first time gas went above $1.00/gallon. The old pumps didn't go up that high and they were charging you by the half gallon.
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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.
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you ran home after your mom sounded the "dinner horn"
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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.)
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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.
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when you realized 1 or 2 generations dont even know what is Limp Bizkit..
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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.
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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!!!!!
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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.
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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.

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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!!!!!
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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.

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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

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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.
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When your GF hit you with 07734 or 143 on your pager...
Pager? Too young to be an old fart!

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