You know you are getting old when ...

In the UK, we still have daily household milk delivery.

I remember that my uncle had the first colour tv in the area, and people came to see it from all over.

The first tv remote controls has a long cord wired into the tv.

I grew up listening to BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service, still do. Never tv!

My friends and I would cycle 20-35 miles from home, be out all day until evening and our parents never knew where we'd been playing during our adventures.

You could trust strangers.

I recall the day that I didn't need to cram my pockets with bottles of sugared water, compass, fish hooks and line, candles, matches, signal mirror, safety pins string, twine, metal mug and a torch to help when I became stranded on a desert island, because it'd just occurred that there were no desert islands on my walk to school!
 
Dang! Isn't there anyone here older then me? :grumpy:

I remember sitting on my grandmothers lap listening to FDR's fireside chats.

Our phone number in LA was 3136. We were lucky. We had a 2 party line. Most people had a 4 party line. Later, our number was changed to WHitney 3136. As LA grew, it changed to WEbster 4-3136. Then AT&T did away with the letter prefix. That was a bummer.

Most of the radio equipment I worked on in the USAF had tubes. We did have a Collins HF SSB tranceiver that had transistors, but we didn't touch it except to change frequencies.

I was in ROTC at our high school. I could walk to school with my .22 rifle and shoot it in the ROTC range. No one even noticed or cared. Try that now.
 
I was born in 1969, dead center of "Generation X" and here are some of the things I can remember that date me:

1. Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday mornings
2. Randomly visiting all our neighbors when I was five years old, being invited in and given something to eat, and my parents never giving it a second thought
3. Coming home from school to find our first color television, and thinking that it was not so great
4. Being scared to death by commercials on TV for the movies "Audry Rose", "The Exorcist", "It's Alive", and "The Omen"
5. My parents and all of their friends looking like hippies (by today's standards) even though they had professional jobs (teacher and insurance underwriter).
6. Lusting after my braless, mini-skirt wearing teenage baby sitters. Pretending to cry so that I could lay my head in their lap. (Top that you old farts!)
7. When my folks joined the local "Raquetball Club" and I became the most popular kid in school because I could bring guests.
8. Playing "Pong", and later Asteroids, Pac Man, Donkey Kong etc at Pizza restaurants.
9. Getting an "Atari" game console and thinking life just couldn't get any better
10. "Walk Man" cassette players came out and cost $80.

I'm sure there are more but I'll stop at 10.
 
Has anyone mentioned pinball machines! Or when we all walked around with a pocket full of yo-yos, pull string tops, baseball cards, or hot wheels? I had a major trading corner going in pocket knives and comic books in the third grade; kids today would likely be arrested for having either in school.

We were also into building plastic and wooden model kits; or playing with functional science kits (microscopes, telescopes, chemestry sets, geology sets; the world was three dimensional then, it wasn't just a collection of pixels on a screen. Games were physical things that you played with real people.

I can't even remember the last time I saw one of those hard rubber Spaldings balls, that we used to play stickball with. :rolleyes:

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
hmmmm...ever hear of Space Invaders.....?
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Oh yeah...that was one of my favorites... not sure how I managed to omit that.

I also remember Volkswagon Bugs being the most common car on the road, and making sure not to miss "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley" on Tuesday nights.

And as for a knife related memory, I remember being told not to forget to bring my pocketknife to certain Cub Scout meetings, which were right after school and this presupposed that you would have to bring your knife to school, and this was not an issue.
 
I'm only 14.

However, I can only carry my Spyderco Endura from after 3:00PM weekdays which really isn't very amusing.

I remember cassette tapes, CD's and Telephones with cords. Wow, And I'm not very old.
 
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