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

[Pwc]

Hogpatrol, yup. In the AF receiver site at Barksdale AFB, LA, the "station standard" was 28vdc.....charge up a 20 mfd cap (looked like a can of green beans with two screws on top; toss it to someone.... they didn't need Viagra..

 

[Pwc]

Used to open hood and look down and see..
ground. Sat on radiator, straddled the engine and pulled the head on 1953 straight 6 Ford Fairlane. Remember adding oil to the air breather?

 

[KMart]

Hogpatrol, yup. In the AF receiver site at Barksdale AFB, LA, the "station standard" was 28vdc.....charge up a 20 mfd cap (looked like a can of green beans with two screws on top; toss it to someone.... they didn't need Viagra..

You had to be really fast to get away with that.
If you were't you got to spend some time at sick bay.

 

[jpx2rk]

There is one in Fond du Lac, WI.

We have one in my town, they have monthly "cruise in's" for all the local car clubs. Some nice rat rods, 55-57 chevys, and pick ups running around then.

 

[hogpatrol]

Did you ever charge up a condenser and toss it to someone to catch?

Numerous times.

 

[hogpatrol]

You know you're old when you hitch-hiked and didn't worry about being picked up by a child molester, serial killer, bank robber, car jacker, or other criminal element. I know I traveled hundreds of miles doing it no problems. Once in a while you'd get a guy with a few under his belt and he'd be off on the shoulder and only a few inches from the roadside vegetation . So well short of your destination, you'd say "Right up here on the next block you can drop me off, my buddy only lives up the street". After he was out of sight, the thumb went up again.

 

[Shooter13]

I remember Burma Shave>>>but was too young to use it. However, I did use Vitalis! A friend of mine used Brylcream... Wasn't called "Vitalis V/S or 5?" or some such moniker?

You're probably thinking VO5 the womans hair spray ;-)

 

[MikeT49]

When you started bow hunting you used your dad's old solid fiberglass longbow. The new fancy recurves with fiberglass limbs were too expensive.

 

[carlsbad]

I have to lie to the cardio machine at the gym about my age to get the target heartrate to a reasonable level...

 

[Pwc]

Remember Winky Dink and You....for 50 cents you got a clear green sheet of plastic, piece of flannel eraser and a box of 5 crayons.

The plastic stuck to the front of the TV screen by static elecetricity... when Winky Dink got in trouble, the screen would freeze and the announcer would describe what you needed to draw on the screen to get him out of trouble...like an arch (bridge) over a river...minute later the cartoon resumed.

Remember getting your arm close to the screen and the hair on your arm would srand up?

 

[TAJ45]

Winky Dink.....yeah. My younger bro got one, would barely share - by giving me the least used colors. :/

 

[Pwc]

"Youhoo, It's me, my name is Pinky Lee, I skip and run and have lots of fun for you and me...."

"Hey, hey kids...what time is it.....It's Houdy Douty time......"

"Oh, ho, ho McGoo, you've done it again....:

"Well King, it looks like this case is closed..."

"Out of the western skies comes Sky Kiiiing"

 

[Kevin Taylor]

Sky king. Hot damn!

 

[butchlambert]

Hit Parade, Amos&Andy, Fibber McGee&Molly, Lash Larue, Hopalong Cassidy, The Green Hornet

 

[hogpatrol]

Lone Ranger, American Bandstand, Three Stooges, Popeye and Olive Oyl, Looney Tunes, Jackie Gleason Show and in Philly we had Chief Halftown and Sally Starr hosting afternoon cartoons.

 

[hogpatrol]

When the game regulations fit in your license holder instead of now when you need a book bag and a lawyer.

 

[butchlambert]

When the game regulations fit in your license holder instead of now when you need a book bag and a lawyer.

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Geez, that ain't old! I was a Grandfather then.

 

[hogpatrol]

Geez, that ain't old! I was a Grandfather then.[/QUOTEI

I hear you but that was the oldest one I still had. They were the same back in the '50s & '60s. The game commissions went full blown gotta have an attorney accompany you in the field back in the '70s.

 

[Rsadams]

When you have spent 4 days pressure washing and painting your house and only half way done.... The you're old part comes in when you're as sore as I am right now... Plus I forget 25 years ago how much standing on a ladder all day sucks... My shoulders , back , knees , feet and hands are reminding me daily.... At 51 I am not terribly old but definitely not 21 anymore....

 

[Pwc]

Try 75....you sound like you're using a roller; I'm using a sprayer, 2 step laders and a 2X10 for scaffolding to walk on. Start on the west side of the house and follow the sun end up on the eastside in the evening; mostly shade all day. The up and down is a killer, but at least there is a break by walking the plank.

Trim the next day and yes some of it is by brush. Got my Aleve PM, and easy chair that helps me stand up. Next paint job will be the kids or whomever they sell it.