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

[rjtfroggy]

Old enough yo remember 17.9 cents a gallon gas once in a while 15.9, hand the attendant a $5 bill and get a couple of bucks back in change, 20 gallon tank. Or how about 5 Qts, of oil and filter for under $3, to do a 1500 mile oil change.
Then there was the .15 cent pack of cigarettes or the .18 cent loaf of bread. The list goes on.

 

[NorCalMikie]

I remember going "laughing" with the guys. City living, load up and find an empty lot in the middle of town, do hookers till you puked. What some kids will do for fun.
Me and the wife lived maybe 5 miles apart growing up. She did the "duck and cover" thing at her school but we didn't. Go figure. No dog tags either. Different school districts I guess.

City born and raised. Moved to the country just shy of 50 years ago. Got in with a goofy kid and met his dad. Good man!!
Was in the dairy business but got screwed by a dairy co op so he had to sell his cows. Ended up selling his farm a little at a time to get by.
Had a broken down Case tractor in the barn that I got in the middle of.Broke that sucker in half and went to work. Rebuilt the engine and put it back together.
Went out and tilled 10 acres with it, planted and harvested the field of corn. I think I was born a farmer at heart. He and I use to do LOTS of building and farm inspections in our day. He's gone but still VERY MUCH missed.

 

[jr600yd]

Waiting for the fart to cool off enough so I can figure out if it’s a wet or dry one?

 

[jimcasey01]

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!

When I was a kid, I remember when being in an "old" person's bedroom, the first thing I noticed was the dresser or chest top filled with medicine bottles. Now when I go into my bedroom, I see all sorts of my medicine bottles on the dresser, and my wife's fill the top of the chest. I have become my grandparents!

 

[butchlambert]

Most of you are still young. I remember staying with my grand mother in the country outside of Francis, Okla. My brother and I slept in the bedroom off the front porch. You had to access from the front porch. No electricity or any heat. Got real cold one night and my brother let the dog in to sleep under the covers at the foot of the bed. Well, guess what. It was too cold for the dog to go out and he sh#t in the bed. We wallowed all in it. Yeah we go our A$$ whopped. Ma didn't have either a bathroom or outhouse. We just went behind the chicken house.
I'm sleeping with a Lady that is the Great Grandmother to a sweet 10 year old Great Grand Daughter.
I guess that I'm lucky, I do not have to get up to pee. No, I don't pee the bed.

 

[Barlow]

I remember priming the pump (outside) with hot water in winter and hauling water to the house and the barn for the cow. Splitting wood with an axe and mall and wedges for the wood stove, our only heat. Milking the cow before and after school. Turning the churn on Sunday evenings with Mom (she's 97 now) for butter. Picking raspberries and choke cherries for jam and jelly. Putting hot coals under the oil pan in winter to get old Bessie going on a cold day. 6 volt electrical systems in those days. Skidding pulp wood with a horse. Killing venison with my Savage 219, 30-30 (still have it and use it). Packing traps for my Grandpa and catching coyotes. Barlow

 

[longtrapshootn]

You know you are old when all your friends are dying, one by one and you have to go to so many funerals.

 

[Straightshooter1]

You know you are old when all your friends are dying, one by one and you have to go to so many funerals.

That's when you know you're REALLY old.

 

[longtrapshootn]

That's when you know you're REALLY old.

And your time is close, like really close.

 

[longtrapshootn]

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.

 

[okie]

Most of you are still young. I remember staying with my grand mother in the country outside of Francis, Okla. My brother and I slept in the bedroom off the front porch. You had to access from the front porch. No electricity or any heat. Got real cold one night and my brother let the dog in to sleep under the covers at the foot of the bed. Well, guess what. It was too cold for the dog to go out and he sh#t in the bed. We wallowed all in it. Yeah we go our A$$ whopped. Ma didn't have either a bathroom or outhouse. We just went behind the chicken house.
I'm sleeping with a Lady that is the Great Grandmother to a sweet 10 year old Great Grand Daughter.
I guess that I'm lucky, I do not have to get up to pee. No, I don't pee the bed.

I couldnt tell one like that on myself!! lol

 

[Straightshooter1]

You know you're older when the topics for conversations with your friends revolve around health issues and the medications being taken for them.

 

[T-shooter]

 

[Ken]

You know you are old when all your friends are dying, one by one and you have to go to so many funerals.

Yep. remember what Yogi said " If you don't go to their funeral, they won't go to yours".

 

[longtrapshootn]

Yep. remember what Yogi said " If you don't go to their funeral, they won't go to yours".

HAHAH yeah... But all those who owe me shouldn't come to mine... i might just wake up to get my sh*t back, go to the bank and make some deposits then come but to the coffin.

 

[Iowa Fox]

Mine was a ‘39 GMC 1/2 Ton. My wife tells the story of when I used to take her out for a date. Hamburger and then shooting rats at the dump!!!

Sounds like us. She was always a better rat shooter with the single six. She still is 53 years latter.

 

[Pwc]

I'm 75, my grandmother was born in 1886 in a covered wagon near a place called Apache, Oklahoma Indian Territory. G'ma and G'pas farm in Yukon, OK, had an outhouse. Always had a Sears or Wards catalog and big box of strike anywhere matches.

Johnny Carson used to make fun of these, but it was evident he never used an outhouse. The catalog was not for what he inferred, but to tear a page out, roll it up and light it, then pass it around under the seat to burn out spiders or other critters that would bite your butt, then just drop it. Yes I've used an out house, hot Okie summer and cold winter.

I wish I had sat and talked to my g'ma and g'pa but as a kid there was always too much to see, do, and experience on a farm.

My nephew asked my father "what was the most important invention" he thought. He anticipated something like space travel or some such. After awhile dad said the flashlight. When asked why, he sad "You've never had to go tothe outhouse with an kerosene lamp." My dad died in 2009 at 98.

That farm along Piedmont Rd is gone now, surrounded by a fence of welded oil well casings, and whatlooks like 40 acres of green grass with a huge expensive house where a rundown, 2 story clap board home raised 7 kids and provided endless fun and training for 12 grandkids.

 

[butchlambert]

I couldnt tell one like that on myself!! lol

Another episode from the old days. My aunt and uncle lived across the valley from Ma and Pa. I spent the night with my cousin one time. My uncle worked at an aircraft factory called Temco I believe. He always brought my cousin something special every weekend when he came home. Uncle Jim came in late that Friday night and unwrapped a Baby Ruth candy bar and laid it on the bed that we were sharing. Being the same as my Grandmother's house-no bathroom, but we had a slop jar "chamber pot". When my cousin woke up and looked he nudged me and pointed at the Baby Ruth. I nodded and said it wasn't me. Cousin John got a piece of paper and rolled it into the slop jar.
Man, I sure have a lot of memories of the old days and the great majority were great memories.

 

[JFrank]

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[MikeT49]

When you measure the space for getting a new fridge at 68" Your height should be 5' 10" (70") but you fit under the overhang. WTF? Did a quick check, I'm now 5' 7". I'm not gonna check my stem length, I have a bad feeling.