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

[Snuggie]

There’s an A&W in Baton Rouge still. Frosty is what I grew up on in the 50’s with a hand made burger from the little restaurant around the corner. Ahhhh! Had a bunch of cap guns too. They made a little pistol that fired gray plastic bullets. They were bad ass! First car was a new tan 67 VW. My dad paid $1,370 for it. No a/c but I was in heaven. I found a JC Whitney catalogue that offered an oversized carb jet for $.70. The bug would get second gear rubber! Those were the days guys!

 

[BenPerfected]

You know you are old when the Doctor tell you not to eat sweet, thing, sugar, fried food, soda, beer, or anything you really want to eat.

Or your Dr tells you at your age eat whatever you want but stay with the dally exercise
Ben

 

[MikeT49]

FYI:. Twice daily on the Boomerang channel there are 2 hours of the old Looney Tunes. I watch, hoping the Coyote finally catches that smartass super fast chicken. Also for words of wisdom from Foghorn Leghorn.

 

[ShootDots]

FYI:. Twice daily on the Boomerang channel there are 2 hours of the old Looney Tunes. I watch, hoping the Coyote finally catches that smartass super fast chicken. Also for words of wisdom from Foghorn Leghorn.

Now Foghorn Leghorn was my absolute fav cartoon! He was a riot! No doubt!!

 

[Rustytigwire]

My older sister's Alvin and the Chipmunks on a red see thru vinyl lp record. Not too scratched up. From 1959. I was 1 yr old when she got it.

 

[snert]

FYI... There is still an A&W drive-up stand in Middlebury Vermont... Maybe the last one in the US!!

You go back a few years when you pull in there...

PS: The prices are not the same as the 60's.

Steve Nicholas

Cortland NY has one

 

[Pwc]

Now Foghorn Leghorn was my absolute fav cartoon! He was a riot! No doubt!!

He was..I say, he was awful hard on chicken hawk. Now listen boy, you can't find those original cartoons...are you listening boy...you can't find the originals any more 'cause they were too vi-o-lent. See here, boy, you keep lookn' for a chicken and you'll end up like Popeye and Bluto, fight'n all over and for what? Some chick with no drumsticks!

 

[NZ_Fclass]

Better than NOT waking to pee.

Worst is waking for a pee at 4am - then trying to get some sleep before you need the next one!

 

[MrMajestic]

If it wasn’t a bad swatting, you didn’t dare say it didn’t hurt to bad either!
You also never told your parents you were bored either.

Laughed at my Mother once while she was hitting me with a belt, she then grabbed the other end and hit me with the buckle! I stopped laughing! Don't recall the original offense but there is no doubt in my mind the punishment was deserved...

 

[MrMajestic]

Now Foghorn Leghorn was my absolute fav cartoon! He was a riot! No doubt!!

I'm not a chicken boy, I'm a rooster..

 

[ShootDots]

On one of the Foghorn's cartoon's he was being "admired" by an old-biddy hen, who was always "after him"! Well Foghorn did not like the "old-biddy" and just ignored her advances. One day he was strolling around with his "little buddy the chicken hawk" when he saw "the old-biddy" sitting on a fence up ahead. So Foghorn leaned over to the chicken hawk and said "Watch this, I am going to make her day! I am going to say hello"!! LOL I thought that was one of, if not his best, one liners! Hehehehe...

 

[NorCalMikie]

When I got "bigger", my Mom would tell me "You'll NEVER be too big. You'll have to go to sleep sometime and when you do, I'll tie you in bed and beat the hell out of you". And she would have!! She did real good for a single Mother.
Got a couple of Grand Sons that she sure would have loved.

 

[steve123]

When the list of things that don't work right in the old Bod start to exceed those that did used to work right.

 

[butchlambert]

I had a big magnet that I used on the steel balls in a pinball machine. Sure got a lot of free games until caught. Used mercury to turn pennies silver, followed the DDT mosquito fogging truck to help us cool off in Mesa, Az, helped Dad dust the garden with Chlordane, and after 77yrs, I'm still here.
I swear that I never did it, but some of the guys climbed the fence behind a store to get the pop bottles and sold them back to the store. I guess I remembered my Father's stern warnings about such things.

 

[butchlambert]

I remember my wife on top of a single bed whipping on one side and the other with a belt. My middle Son would roll from side to side. He should have known better, he eventually had to crawl out.

 

[BigKev]

Bumper jacks.....whatever happened to bumper jacks?

What ever happened to real bumpers (pick up trucks excluded) ??

 

[MikeT49]

They are on here, twice daily 1PM and 8PM. Wave cable, Boomerang channel. I live on the wet side of Washington. They are the actual old 3D effect ones made from cels. I feel sorry for the kids of today, the new cartoons suck.

 

[hogpatrol]

I lived a few miles from a Nike missile base and five miles from a major oil refining area on the east coast. We had to practice getting under the desks during a simulated nuclear attack, like a wooden desk in a million degree heat blast would have done us any good.

 

[Pwc]

In Oklahoma, duck and cover was as much for tornados as bomb drill.

 

[Hino895]

I forgot what I did but it musta been really bad.
My mom chased me upstairs grabbed my fishin pole and beat me with it till it broke then grabbed one of the speakers from my stereo and threw it at me then the other one.
The speakers survived but I had to cut lawns to buy another fishin pole.