You Know You're Old When......

OleBoot
OleBoot Posts: 2,820
edited August 2014 in The Clubhouse
For once you go to the supermarket with the wife and the piped music is what you thought was a "progressive" rock band...
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    edited August 2014
    I know I am old when I go to the supermarket with my wife. :)
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    dkfreebird wrote: »
    I know I am old when I go to the supermarket with my wife. :)

    No, that's when you know you are so old you have Victorian values about women and who should do the grocery shopping.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    edited August 2014
    When you remember the days of collecting S & H Green Stamps at the grocery store and other stores, gas stations etc to fill up your stamp books. We also had Texas Gold Stamps down here in Texas in the HEB stores.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    ...when you wish the kid in the in the next lane over with the mobile boom box playing hip hop to above clipping levels would turn it down. And I'm only 38...


    Your'e only 38? Maybe I could adopt you? Hoe much money do you have?
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    Polkie2009 wrote: »
    When you remember the days of collecting S & H Green Stamps at the grocery store to fill up your stamp books. We also had Texas Gold Stamps down here in Texas in the HEB stores.

    I grew up in England, and there they were S&H pink stamps and another brand called Green Shield stamps. I remember getting on he bus and going to a couple of towns over to get my Mum a hair drier on Green Sheild stamps at one of their redemption centers.
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    edited August 2014
    OleBoot wrote: »
    No, that's when you know you are so old you have Victorian values about women and who should do the grocery shopping.
    I don't feel that way about women,she is my best friend,but we each have what we are good at and for me grocery shopping isn't one of them for me.I have my chores around the house but she saves us a lot of money when it comes to shopping
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    dkfreebird wrote: »
    I don't feel that way about women,she is my best friend,but we each have what we are good at and for me grocery shopping isn't one of them for me.I have my chores around the house but she saves us a lot of money when it comes to shopping

    Oh Man, Sorry, Your post came across wrong to me. The reason mine said "for once you go to the supermarket with your wife" means that I don't go with her too often, and she is the expert at getting things on sale, etc. I like cook as much as my wife, but let me into the supermarket to buy my own ingredients, and we talking 50% more expensive !!
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    edited August 2014
    OleBoot wrote: »
    Oh Man, Sorry, Your post came across wrong to me. The reason mine said "for once you go to the supermarket with your wife" means that I don't go with her too often, and she is the expert at getting things on sale, etc. I like cook as much as my wife, but let me into the supermarket to buy my own ingredients, and we talking 50% more expensive !!
    No problem,I would buy by what I see on tv when it comes to food and she clips coupons and saves every dime she can.I am clueless when it comes to all that.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    dkfreebird wrote: »
    No problem,I would buy by what I see on tv when it comes to food and she clips coupons and saves every dime she can.I am clueless when it comes to all that.

    I'm just pretty clueless about most things.
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited August 2014
    I know im old when my 17 year old daughter comes toy room and tells me to TURN THE STEREO DOWN!
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2014
    S&H Green stamps and "Plaid" stamps were real big in the NY metro area.

    I go shopping once a week for all the things that Heckyll and Jeckyll never bring home for me on their grocery shopping excursions.

    Wise chips, some Sunkist orange, some kabuchis, some cheese, bread, mustard and ham for lunch during the week, and I'm good.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Sadly I'm not adoptable, and I have enough money to survive on and put together a half decent system or two on the cheap :)

    So why don't I just adopt your hi-fi gear for 10c on the dollar? :-)
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited August 2014
    George Grand wrote: »
    some cheese, bread, mustard and ham for lunch during the week, and I'm good.

    Wow George your as boring as me LOL, if you only knew how many times a year I eat a Ham & Mustard sandwich for lunch! My Co-workers think I'm nuts .... of course I know I am :)
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,673
    edited August 2014
    When you **** & it wasnt a **** :smile:
    ..
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    edited August 2014
    That is surely a sign.LOL
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,328
    edited August 2014
    You know your old when Saturday afternoon nap is the best part of the week
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    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited August 2014
    When your 16 year old tells you, "why is someone your age still AWAKE at 3-4 AM? Gee, Dad! GO TO BED!" lol

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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,783
    edited August 2014
    boston1450 wrote: »
    When you **** & it wasnt a **** :smile:

    Or when you **** and dust blows out...
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  • Inspector 24
    Inspector 24 Posts: 1,308
    edited August 2014
    When you meet someone who hasn't seen Red Dwarf, doesn't know the words to an N'Bacstreet Spears song and hasn't has their mind blown watching Matrix.

    Or when all new music sounds like ****.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,011
    edited August 2014
    You know your old when the AARP STOPS sending you junk mail.

    You also know you have one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel when a group of Jehovah Witnesses ring your bell and when you answer.....they take one look and just turn and walk away.
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    edited August 2014
    You know you're old when you are up posting on the forum at 6 am.
    "if it's not fun, it's not worth it & remember folks, "It's All About The Music"!!
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited August 2014
    tophatjohnny wrote: »
    You know you're old when you are up posting on the forum at 6 am.
    John, go to bed
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited August 2014
    I know I'm old when my shoulder stops working, for no apparent reason.
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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    edited August 2014
    Yea....when you find out Woodstock was taking place 45 years ago....and you think to yourself....Damn...that long ago??
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  • Disc Jockey
    Disc Jockey Posts: 1,013
    edited August 2014
    George Grand wrote: »
    Wise chips

    That's good stuff right there and one of the few foods I miss from the States.
    "The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage." Thucydides
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  • fluffy
    fluffy Posts: 71
    edited August 2014
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    You know your old when Saturday afternoon nap is the best part of the week

    This!
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited August 2014
    When $1.00 got you:

    1. Bleacher seats at Fenway
    2. a Saturday double feature matinee
    3. TWO gallons of gas

    TV was FREE!
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    westmassguy wrote: »
    I know I'm old when my shoulder stops working, for no apparent reason.


    LOL - the wife and I have started calling stuff like this "sleep injuries", as usually this sort of thing happens when you get up in the morning and can't remember doing anything that would cause it during waking hours.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,820
    edited August 2014
    tonyb wrote: »
    You know your old when the AARP STOPS sending you junk mail.

    You also know you have one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel when a group of Jehovah Witnesses ring your bell and when you answer.....they take one look and just turn and walk away.


    When the AARP stuff ISN'T junk mail. I say to the Jehovah's Witnesses, "Sorry, I'm Moldavian Orthodox".
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,011
    edited August 2014
    You know your old when.....


    Your reading "you know your old when " threads.
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