You know you are getting older when..............

[SEM]

When I was around 7-9 years old I was visiting my grandparents house. The pump in the yard had to be primed before it did it's job. My uncle and some of his friends set me up. Everyone carried a plug of Red Man and took a chaw every now and then. I was offered some, a man sized bite, which I gleefully took. When the tobacco juice ran down my throat it felt like fire. I ran to the pump, to find the bowl of water to prime the pump was empty. Everyone except me got a great laugh from it. Now a days, that would be considered child abuse. Back then it was called fun. I lived through it and did similar to my siblings and younger relatives.

as mean as it seemed then, sometimes it taught you a lesson that lasted the rest of your life... my dad taught me a healthy fear of falling in the water since I work on boats guess the fates worked out the lesson in the long run

 

[MrMajestic]

Perhaps this is the same as what we called a root cellar

I believe you are correct also. We did keep are tators and canned fruits in there.

 

[gdbleb]

A good friend of mine takes me to a couple of hockey games a season. We drink beer. The big question is how many 20-somethings come and leave the Men's Room while we're still standing at the porcelain. We're up to 3. ;-)

 

[MikeT49]

The first sign of winter was when your mom put on the flannel sheets.

 

[charliegrba]

How many remember vacuum powered windshield wipers? While driving in the rain if you press down on the gas to pass the wipers would stop just when you need them the most.

 

[pirate ammo]

Don't know about this one, how many have picked cotton by hand, I have.8 years old in the field on my uncles farm in south Georgia. Turns to real work real fast.

 

[Iowa Fox]

Reality really hits home when not so long ago I was helping my grandson when we were out fishing, mushroom hunting,or hunting. Now he is helping his slow moving grandpa when we are out. I'm just hoping for many more seasons out with him.

 

[Pwc]

Yup, flannel sheets..mmmmmmm.

In Greece we didn't have them, but I used 220vac heat gun to preheat my little girls beds, they were so little they did 't ge erate much heat.

 

[hogpatrol]

You know you're old when your phone number was Hubbard or some other name in front of the numbers ##### or you had a party line and you listened for the click to see if anyone else was listening.

 

[mongo chicago]

You are old if you can remember parking meters being penny nickel dime.

 

[hogpatrol]

My grandmother had a big cast iron wood stove she cooked on and it had a reservoir on one end that supplied steady hot water. IIRC, it had six "burners" and a big oven.

 

[ShootDots]

You ARE old if you remember "Henry's Hamburgers" where you could buy 7 hamburgers for 1 dollar and a chocolate shake for 25 cents! That was my fav place to go after a day's hunting!

 

[SEM]

The first sign of winter was when your mom put on the flannel sheets.

I just did that Sunday .... all by myself overnight lows are in the low forty's now to cheap to crank up the heat yet

 

[Iowa Fox]

You ARE old if you remember "Henry's Hamburgers" where you could buy 7 hamburgers for 1 dollar and a chocolate shake for 25 cents! That was my fav place to go after a day's hunting!

And they tasted darn good to boot.

 

[MikeT49]

On your third trip to the garage for a hammer you realize you have AAADD. (Age activated attention deficit disorder).

 

[hogpatrol]

You could be an oldster if you sold lemonade or iced tea to the construction workers building homes in your new subdivision, peddled tomatoes or other garden vegetables to neighbors or collected soda bottles to get the 2¢ deposit.
After which, you spent it all on baseball cards, candy or around Halloween, wax lips.

 

[hogpatrol]

When I was a youngster, my mother would give me a dollar and send me to the grocery store. I'd come back with a sack of potatoes, can of soup, bag of crackers, bar of soap, pack of noodles and a candy bar. Can't do that anymore, too many cameras.

 

[Snuggie]

You really hit the big time if you had a glass gallon milk bottle!! 50cents!!

 

[muleman69]

Don't feel old but the wife seems to whisper a lot these days, not sure why she don't just SPEAK UP

 

[Pwc]

Remember the iceman in his big black rubber "aprom" over his shoulder carrying 50lb blocks of ice for the "ice box". Stealing ice chips frpm the back of his truck with the neighbor kids. Minature milk bottles (pint size) with cardboard disk lids at school lunch. Milkman delivered to your door, read the note in the empty bottle and left what e er it said and took waey the empties. Using a spoon to skim off the cream on the milk for parents coffee. Wonder Bread in the wax paper wrapper with "RED, YELLOW AND BLUE baloons; helps buid strong bodies 8 ways!" Later it was 12 ways.

On radio any black and white TV, only in the daytime: "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, that's my dog Tige, he lives in there too..arf,arf". Smiling Ed, and Froggie; "Plunk your magic twanger Froggie...Hiya kids, hiya, hiya..."

Robbie Benson and the double R Bar ranch, Inner Sanctum, One Man's Family, The Great Gildersleeve", Fibber McGee and Molly, Big John and Sparky, Lorenzo Jones, trying to find out who he is...

All this, around the time I used to knead the oleo to make it turn yellow. My finger is get'n tired...