What's it like "being old"?

[Falla39]

Originally Posted by Rico

Hehehe! Sister, did I get ya riled up a bit? Sorry about that. The smiley face was intended to let anyone reading know that I was messin around. If I didn't have this big old belly I am sure I could touch the floor without bending my knees. (BTW, that is not a young vs old thing.)

Bro. Rico,

You didn't really get me riled up at all. I saw the little green

smiley face. I was just playing along with you. That proves I

may be older but not old. If I was "OLD" I could have been

riled up a lot but I am not old. And I have never in my almost

68 yrs., colored my hair. I thought God did a great job with

it!

Blessings, and I love you, Bro. Rico!!!

Falla39

[Falla39]

Originally Posted by Rico

Hehehe! Sister, did I get ya riled up a bit? Sorry about that. The smiley face was intended to let anyone reading know that I was messin around. If I didn't have this big old belly I am sure I could touch the floor without bending my knees. (BTW, that is not a young vs old thing.)

Bro. Rico,

Not just bending and touching the floor but putting my

palms flat on the floor without bending my knees!!! LOL!!!

Blessings,

Falla39

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Falla39

Bro. Rico,

Not just bending and touching the floor but putting my

palms flat on the floor without bending my knees!!! LOL!!!

Blessings,

Falla39

My sister can do that, and she is flat footed. Are you flatfooted as well? There aren't very many people who can do that.

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?


They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did?

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .."
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Can anyone here still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow ,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk?

As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?

How many of these do you remember?
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans chewing gum..........and TEABERRY GUM.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records/78 RPM, too
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
Mr. Kangaroo
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards -with that awful pink slab of bubble gum Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn

Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?


The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

[Falla39]

Originally Posted by Rico

My sister can do that, and she is flat footed. Are you flatfooted as well? There aren't very many people who can do that.

Bro. Rico,

No flat feet, but I have long arms.

Falla39

[Barb]

Great list, girl...I remember almost all of it...

I do remember the milk man and ice cream from the boy pushing the cart that cost a dime and cones from DQ which were also a dime and when Lays chips first came out and my first hula hoop (must have been 1958 or 59) and penny candy and...my brothers are here to pick me up...gotta go...

more later

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by CC1

I have not read any of this thread yet except the first post. I believe for your answer you need to ask rgcraig and scupples. I always defer to these wonderful elder women.

Sit down little boy!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Sit down little boy!

Don't feel bad, girl. I parted my hair a different way yesterday and found grey hair. I was shocked!!!! Don't tell The Mrs.!!!!!!

:sshhh

[Lost]

Originally Posted by Brother Strange

I thought that this thread would eventually go away but it appears to just keep hanging around. So, I decided to open it. Though I have not read this thread except the first post that is inquiring what it is like to being old, as the title also asks, I am sorry that I cannot contribute anything to the understanding of the subject.

That's not what I heard. I heard you're quite knowledgable regarding the topic.