You know your getting old when...

Actually, you really know you're getting old when ... you tell a "you know you're getting old" joke and you're speaking from past experience.

 

LOL, like well in the past!

 

I know what you mean

 

Wife just pulled out a almost 1 inch hair from my ear! Oh DAMN! Worlds coming to a end!!!

 

As my dad would say, it sucks when you have more hair coming out of your ears and nose than you do coming out of the top of your head.

 

How about paper tape? I worked on a system in the Navy that used it and punch cards as well. The newer model had a "state of the art" Rapid Access Disk" or RAD that cost $1million stood about 3 feet tall and rotated on it's side. It had about 1-6 megs of capacity and had 500+ fixed heads to read the disk. It was part of the Xerox Sigma 5 Mainframe computer. We would load scenarios via mag tape units onto the RAD. Here's a pic of the RAD:

 

To think my Blackberry kicks that thing in the nuts now

 

You watched Amos & Andy on a B&W tv,,, There were 3 channels to watch & they were on from 5PM till 10 PM. You kids top this...... Jim

 

We were still using paper tapes and punch cards in 2003-2004.

 

I was reading a list of things that graduating seniors will never experience. Number eight was "They have never seen a tube of toothpaste that did not sit Streight up on its flat cap."

I thought, OH!

So you know you are getting old when you don't understand why they replaced the small toothpaste cap with a larger cap. I now sit my toothpaste on its flat lid.

 

I knew I was old when I met a girl and we were talking and I was thinking to myself "yes she is young but not too young" and later in the convo I discovered I was friends with her mom in high school.

Her mom was two grades above me and we played on the tennis team together.

 

You know you are old when you remember that a telephone had a rotary dial and no one else does, and the phone weights 20 lbs. .

When you cut the front forks off a old bike to put on your stingray bike font end to make it look like a chopper.

When the only ice cream you got was home made on the holidays and you had to sit on the ice cream churn to hold it down as someone cranked the handle.

When your front dash of your car was made of metal.

When all your candy and all your comic books were a Dime.

When hair was considered to be long if it touched your ears. You were a Hippie.

When you used to say " Groovy" and " Neet-to" and it was cool.

When you used to build plastic car models and they had metal axles.

 

Ain't it the truth. I have both of those mods myself.

 

When you start regretting you didn't take care of your health like you should have when you were younger and when you wonder if retirement will be an option.

 

listening to Inagaddadavida and blazing some green when hardly anybody knew what green was.....buying a Marantz 5220 for 380 bucks when my car payment was 120 bucks. Rent was...........80 per month...anybody know what a marantz 5220 was? no fair if you google it!

 

Got a few...

1. Putting playing cards in your bike spokes to make an engine sound
2. Yard Darts
3. Riding a 3 wheeler

 

When this becomes a valuable tool

 

The retirement age is gonna be like trying to grab a piece of paper on a gusty day, as soon as you get close it gets blown further away.