You Know You Are Old When

[Alan46]

YKYO, when you remember practicing the duck & cover in Elementary school!

 

[newbury]

YKYO, when you remember practicing the duck & cover in Elementary school!

That time was spent counting wads of gum and admiring the handiwork of initials carved under the desk.

 

[Alan46]

That time was spent counting wads of gum and admiring the handiwork of initials carved under the desk.

That sounds like we went to the same school!

 

[WinterDeere]

I understand the gum, but who carved their initials under a desk?!?

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

"Shorty" Ingraver

 

[Alan46]

I understand the gum, but who carved their initials under a desk?!?

I remember the first one I saw!
AR WAS HERE!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Now i feel old. We just ordered a leather sofa and storage trunk from a local furniture store.
I could tell over the phone salesman had a NY accent so I asked if he was from Manhattan. "Queens" he said. I said I got to see the 1964 World's Fair twice...first with parents then later my grandparents...but I guess before his time. He said "You know that great big Earth metal globe at the entrance? My Dad likes to tell the story he got arrested for climbing it when he was a little kid".

 

[scootr]

I use a Pp debit card online. Pp is good about notifying me of every use so I can quickly identify a fraudulent charge. I keep 2 debit cards so if one gets hacked I can ask them to negate the charge and cancel the card. Then I start using the second card and request a new card for future back up. The system has worked great for me for a decade. In that time my card has been hacked about 3 times but I use it constantly.

 

[newbury]

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I understand the gum, but who carved their initials under a desk?!?

Bored boys with pocket knives. The same ones who would carve their initials into about anything.

 

[masscity]

Anyone ever play stretch with a pocket knife?