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

[littlebuddybr]

You could have a shotgun in the back window of your pickup truck in the school parking lot cause you were going hunting before or after school and nobody called the police.
Or carrying a knife at school cause I was a boy scout and had a totin` chip.
By the way I`m 58 and holding.

I explained this to the kids last year.
Cause a kid got in trouble for wearing a shirt with a picture of a gun on it.

 

[brokeasajoke]

When you know what a can house is. I still use one though my current one dosent have the spring water cooling troughs. However, the one at the house I grew up in did.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

When one of your school field trips was to the annual local fall hog butchering.

 

[muleman69]

When the water heater you had as a child was a cast iron tank with a burner and no thermostat. You turned the gas on and lit the burner with a match. When you needed hot water you would heat the water and feel the side of the tank to see how much hot water there was and hopefully remember to shut it off because if you forgot what you heard was "KABOOM" as the tank over pressurized and blew up. That is why only the adults were allowed to operate the water heater. We were still using this water heater when I went into the navy in 1963.

I remember the hot water being heated through the wood stove in the kitchen.

 

[dcali]

I’m not saying it’s age, because I still think of myself as young, but I picked up a can of spray adhesive when I meant to pick up the WD-40. Turns out it doesn’t work as well.

 

[pirate ammo]

The heck with all this old talk, I'll be 70 next year still riding Harleys, swinging through the trees, and splitting firewood with a mall. Damn, think positive and stay active and show
them young IDIOTS what it means to really be alive. Now just where did I put that tube of Ben-Gay.

 

[Topwater]

I hate being told that I’m “ spry “!!!! .................I also remember a time when GAY meant happy!

 

[jds holler]

I know that this is walking a fine line, but -- I like how I can call out some younger, tougher, punk for being an idiot, and he USUALLY doesn't feel the need to kick my ass. jd

 

[bluealtered]

Lets not forget when you first realize that, that cute young lady with her panty's showing under that short skirt is smiling at you out of pity, ... not desire.

 

[BenPerfected]

When two fingers is enough

 

[Kevin Taylor]

When the water heater you had as a child was a cast iron tank with a burner and no thermostat. You turned the gas on and lit the burner with a match. When you needed hot water you would heat the water and feel the side of the tank to see how much hot water there was and hopefully remember to shut it off because if you forgot what you heard was "KABOOM" as the tank over pressurized and blew up. That is why only the adults were allowed to operate the water heater. We were still using this water heater when I went into the navy in 1963.

If I wanted a hot bath, I had to go to the basement and start a wood fire in the water heater. We had coal, but if I used more then 2 lumps the size of my fist, I got yelled at.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Back when I was in my early twenties and working half days(12) hours, 7 days a week. If I complained to my father in law about an ache or a pain, he'd say, just keep breathing.... Now he's 79 and just cracked his L5 for the second time. He's 19 years older than me, my mind is still young, body not quite as young. Thing is he retired at 38, I'm stilllll working. Concrete, forming, or flooring.. up, down, up, down....

 

[Murray Brook]

You know your are getting old when you head to the fridge for a beer and end up in the living room in you chair with a bottle of pickles in your hand.

 

[akajiggs]

How many folks on here have driven an automobile with a manual choke or a floor mounted starter button?

my first car I drove had a crank handle sticking out the front.Just can remember my first mink I ever caught.Took it to town and bought 2 gallons of gas and received 2 coon hides and a possum for change.

 

[SealT5]

Hell im half everyone’s age here and I relate more than I’d like too!

I knew i shouldn't read this, ... way to much truth here.

 

[snert]

When you know what a can house is. I still use one though my current one dosent have the spring water cooling troughs. However, the one at the house I grew up in did.

Tell me how to build one! Only saw one and it had a spring running with channels

 

[The Viper]

At my age, shooting benchrest is better than sex! At least a relay lasts 10 minutes!!!!!

I never thought I'd be sleeping with a Grand Mother either!

 

[longtrapshootn]

You know you are old when you fart and shat on yourself a little.

 

[Pwc]

Anybody remember (city kids) mixing the color die pack in Oleo Margarine?
I remember "fondly" learning to drive by sitting on the foot pedal and holding the wheel on my Mom's treadle sewing machine. Maybe 5 or 6 years old?
And going to the Doctors office and him with a smoke in his face while he checked us out. I think he died at 90+?

Yup, remember squeezing the Oleo to mash the red button that turned yellow to make the oleo yellow. Remember learning to sew on my mother's Singer treddle sewing machine. Have a White treddle in the garage now to restore; it works grerat and has a spare leather belt in the drawer.

Remember cold winter nights in OK, had to go into the bathroom and light the gas stove to heat the room before taking a bath. 5 years old and used a strike anywhere match; gas on first, then strike the match. Using an axe to cut wood and kindling...Now, I wouldn't let my kids at that age near matches or an axe....

Remember the Dr. making house call because I ate too many raw potatos; try and find one of those now....

I'm a 17 yr old trapped in a 75 yr old body.

 

[bluealtered]

Ah, ... the good old days! When all we had to worry about was the Ruskies dropping atom bombs on us or where that next gallon of gas was coming from so you could fill the trunk of whatever old clunker you were driving with deer to feed everybody who didn't have an old clunker to cut school with and go hunt.
For those who never had to go through this, you missed out on what made America, America. Just ask those who ate rock soup once or twice a week.