You know you're old when...

sygazelle · 08-29-2021, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by shoei

Man we're worse than WebMD. We're gonna freak him the fuck out lol

He should not listen to us anyway. He should just ask Dr. Oz or Dr. Phil.

Littlebear · 08-29-2021, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

Paper routes, mowing lawns, shoveling snow, etc. Anything for a few bucks.

Did all of them, plus my fav, splitting wood.
To get Christmas $$ my best friend & I made candle sconces once, out of pine board, & went door to door selling them. They didn't sell too well.

JJ 911SC · 08-29-2021, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by dscabra

I remember picking up bottles and returning them for the 5-10 cent deposits...

I remember when the bottles went from 2 cents to a nickel.

TKDbilly · 08-29-2021, 08:48 PM

Some will understand ...

tebbnsx · 08-29-2021, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by TKDbilly

Some will understand ...

Lol! That's a good one.'

M_Six · 08-29-2021, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by TKDbilly

Some will understand ...

Was often a temporary fix, though. Unless you cleaned your heads.

Sublime00 · 08-29-2021, 09:44 PM

You click to open a thread titled "You know you're old when..."

Someone had to have made that joke somewhere in this 151 page thread.

upstatedoc · 08-29-2021, 09:51 PM

You might be the first

shoei · 08-29-2021, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by upstatedoc

You might be the first

Nah, someone said it within' the past couple weeks lol

RelaxIN2 · 08-30-2021, 08:37 AM

Here was one of the very first Multi-functional devices...

Between the Yellow & White Pages, it functioned as our Contact lists, our Internet and also doubled as a booster seat.

sygazelle · 08-30-2021, 11:32 AM

....when you went to college before student loans were common and tuition was cheap enough where you could work your own way through college without having a big debt to pay off afterward.

sygazelle · 08-30-2021, 11:35 AM

...when the word anyway did not have an "s" on the end.

dscabra · 08-30-2021, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when the word anyway did not have an "s" on the end.

Yes, and when the word "ain't" wasn't recognized as a word.

3.0L · 08-30-2021, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by RelaxIN2

You know you're old if this was your First Job...

A paper route... when you road your bike around WITHOUT a helmet, gloves or even shoes. It was a place in time when banana seats and high-top sissy bars were in. Look, no reflector's either...

It's Freaking amazing that we survived all these years without all of the safety gear and I think we turned out pretty damn normal and successful.

Instead of being on their cell phones, or playing video games, and wondering what box to check (Male/Female/Gender Neutral) I'd like to see some of these Snowflakes today get a job when they were 10 and drive their bike around delivering papers and collecting money. Then going to school and coming home to help around house.

My first job outside the home was selling newspapers on a downtown street corner, followed by the much better income paper route.

UncleWede · 08-30-2021, 01:45 PM

Black Friday delivery normally took THREE loads

On (VERY) rare occasions when water actually fell out of the sky, mom would drive me with the tailgate up on the Volvo.

RelaxIN2 · 08-30-2021, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by unclewede

black friday delivery normally took three loads

On (very) rare occasions when water actually fell out of the sky, mom would drive me with the tailgate up on the volvo.

thats cheatin..!!

UncleWede · 08-30-2021, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by RelaxIN2

thats cheatin..!!

I gave her a cut

And I always helped her clean dad's offices, for "mad money" Except we always seemed to buy dishes with mad money

rwheels · 08-30-2021, 02:31 PM

You've seen home movies from these.
(picture from a different poster on this site)

RelaxIN2 · 08-30-2021, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

You've seen home movies from these.
(picture from a different poster on this site)

Okay, I give up... is that R2-D2, or one of those other robot things from the 70's..?

upstatedoc · 08-30-2021, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

You've seen home movies from these.
[SIZE="1"](picture from a different poster on this site)[/SIZE]

Saw plenty of movies at school on one of those. If it started to skip you had a press down on the one of the lever thingy's

dscabra · 08-30-2021, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by RelaxIN2

Okay, I give up... is that R2-D2, or one of those other robot things from the 70's..?

Maybe BB8mm ???

UncleWede · 08-30-2021, 04:56 PM

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