You Might Be Old If . . .

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'64 Rambler American. 3 on the tree, vacuum is for tubes not windshield wipers. Best thing about that car was the "Jesus Saves" sticker my sister put on it before it was mine....never got pulled over.
AARP is always after me, which is a constant source of amusement for my wife.
 
You might be old if you had one phone in the house and it was screwed to the wall, usually in the kitchen, and when you called your girlfriend you stretched the long curly phone line connected to the handset all the way down the hall from the kitchen as far and tight as possible to get a tiny touch of phone privacy. You might be old.
 
You might be old if you really miss opening coffee cans with a hand operated can opener just to experience that initial burst of coffee goodness that is released during the openers first puncture.

And you might be old if you really miss the plastic scoop that came with every can of coffee. 

Personally I believe history will show that the moment the plastic coffee scoop disappeared was the moment that precipitated mankind's ultimate fall. 
 
You might be old when you remember having to dial by turning the telephone dial round with your finger instead of pushing buttons
 
And then while dialing close to the last digit your finger slips from the rotary dial hole and you have to start again.    You might be old if you still memorize phone numbers...you might be old.
 
Karl5150 said:
Late to this thread...
'64 Rambler American. 3 on the tree, vacuum is for tubes not windshield wipers. Best thing about that car was the "Jesus Saves" sticker my sister put on it before it was mine....never got pulled over.
AARP is always after me, which is a constant source of amusement for my wife.
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If you remember your dad's green Studebaker convertible, your grandmother's 2 1/2 ton Dodge 4-door sedan with push-button transmission on the metal dash and man-eating fins on the rear, The Art Linkletter Show w/ 'Kid's Say the Darnedest Things', and Mitch Miller (God help me, he was from my home town - let's follow the bouncing ball!).
 
My Mom had that 2 1/2 ton Dodge 4-door sedan with push-button transmission on the metal dash and man-eating fins on the rear.  It was all white.  The neighbors made fun of it.
 
Grainger49 said:

That would be a single digit aged Grainger.  We had 7 digits by the time I was 8.
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When I was 8 The Beatles came to America and I purchased the Meet The Beatles album that day.  It is the only item I have left from those ancient times and the only piece of vinyl I still own. No jacket or cover though, just a scratched to death piece of thick vinyl.  Still a grin though.
 
You might be old if someone asks you for the time and you tell them something like "its ten till five"' or "its twenty after four" and the person looks at you and says "What time is it?"  You might be old.
 
The digital realm has almost consumed us.  it's no ones fault actually but time itself.  Now the time is 12:40 because twenty to one has nearly slipped away from our paradigm.    You might be old...
 
You might be old if you sent in this ad to win a Gemini space capsule.  I know I sent in about a hundred of them.
 

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Sweepstakes closed May 15' 1967, capsule awarded June 1st, 1967.

I must have sent in a thousand entries. 

My brother purchased one of those DIY helicopter kits from the back of Popular Mechanics around then.  Don't if anyone remembers those.
 
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