[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

I remember when you started behaving any time you heard an adult start counting to 3.

 

or if you were a rotten kid you could leave it in gear and press that starter button to slowly ride it around the yard

 

Im so old i am about the same age as spiff i think.

 

I'm so old that I remember . . . less and less.

 

I'm so old that I remember when the babysitter would say, "Stop acting up, or I'll give you a lickin'.

Back then, that made me stop acting up. If she said that to me today, I'd act up even more and make her follow through.

 

I'm so old as to be lecherous with impunity as in, oh him, he's just a dirty old man.

 

Im so old i listened to beethoven....live.

 

Im so old i cant help but double post.

 

I'm so old that, though I know I shouldn't double post, I don't give a shit, and I do it anyway.

 

federal buildings and train stations, in the entrance lobby, next to the wooden phone booths, and there was always a candy counter run by a blind guy, who was usually korean too.

 

i'm so old, i remember when the right answer to "do you believe in god" was "yes, all of them".

 

im so old I remember nothing

 

i remember when you didn't have to have a car to not live in a city. or be rich to not live in one either. and didn't need a building permit if you lived far enough from town.
those are i think the best things i'm so old i remember. the trains and buses stopping everywhere, and the only stores that weren't mom and pop, were like sears and pennys.
i remember when monkey wards was one of them, and they had a sit down lunch counter.
places to eat were mostly mom and pop too. i don't remember there being ANY fast food franchises where i lived when i was little growing up.

 

I remember joining this site like it was yesterday

 

I remember my sisters hubby wearing a nappy...!!! Did I say that? Must be getting old..

 

I rode a massively impressive steam train in the 40s with all the visible moving parts and the sound of it. I still love steam trains.

I remember Joe Louis fighting and hearing it on the radio.

 

I am so old I remember America before corporatism took over.
Before every town became "Anytown, USA"...with the same big box stores, same restaurants, same grocery stores..same...same...same

 

if that were the america conservatives were talking about, they might be making some kind of sense, but of course it isn't, the corporatism is their pockets and their idea of "american values".
that was the america that had a real middle class and that was the advantage it had. not saying there weren't bad wrong things too.
but if you didn't like it some place, you could always try someplace else, and it would really BE some place else.

oh and while i'm young enough to have thought diesel trains looked prettier, going on a trip, was an adventure in itself, that started at the station and was really going on once you got on the train. and i remember listening to baseball games on the radio, where they were reading it off the teletype and they had little foly gizmos to make it sound like they were there when they really weren't. i got to watch that being done in a radio studio one time when i was little too.

steam was still around when i was in kindergarten and the first grade. mostly in helper service on the hill, the big cab forward 4-8-8-2's, and little 0-6-0 switchers in the yard in roseville. i think there was still a little mike on the marysville turn too. mainline freight was mostly pulled by black widow painted f-units, and daylight painted alco pa's on the passenger trains.

oh and every railroad printed its own timetables, with a photo or painting of trains on the cover. and in the station we had them from all the different railroads ours connected to, to give to passengers buying tickets there. and a huge thick book called the guide, that didn't have any pictures, except for the four clocks for the time zones on the cover, that had every timetable of every railroad in it, for figuring out connections and routings.

because my dad worked for the railroad in the stations, i got to hang out there a lot.

 

I'm so bloody old I remember using 'dipper' pens in school-and fountain pens being a real talking point,and italic nibs being considered really 'flash'.