You Know You Are Old When

[MossRoad]

I went to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription yesterday... or should I say yet another prescription.

She remembered my name.

Yeah, I did similar. Was kinda nice she remembered my name.....



It's on my work shirt.

 

[MossRoad]

Year after high school 6' 135#, 28x36 jeans.
This morning, 6' 235#, 38 X 28 jeans.

I blame gravity.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Cookies!!!!!
In the early 1960s when my Grandfather bought his first motor home (Ultra Van) I went with them across the US and Canada. Early on I discovered Gouchos and ate a box a day! So 12 yo on a three month vacation so three meals a day then add 90-100,000 calories for the trip.
I think they must have added cocaine to the recipe because I was soon addicted. The logo was a Matador but later switched to an elephant which was more appropriate. Going along I could make a chocolate milkshake in the kitchen if the road wasn't too bumpy, great to wash the Gouchos down with plus adding more calories.
Good thing my Grandad had a leather punch in his toolbox so I could lengthen my belt as well as buying new jeans and shirts occasionally. Three months of cookies and no exercise. Grandad gave me a crewcut. I looked like Pugsley Addams.
Back home my parents asked where I was and who was this fat kid in elastic waist pants with suspenders? My own parents didn't recognize me thanks to Gouchos.

 

[Oaktree]

The hazard of never changing size is that it's pretty easy to keep the same clothes for 35 years. That's not always a good thing, or so my wife and kids sometimes have to remind me.

My size was fairly consistent from my 20s thru my mid-ish 40s. Other than maybe dress clothes which were rarely worn, I've never gotten 35 years out of any clothing. Worn out well before that.

 

[Oaktree]

Early on I discovered Gouchos and ate a box a day!

The brand doesn't ring a bell, but the peanut butter creme gauchos look familiar from when I was a kid. Maybe someone else made similar cookies.
"Store" cookies were all we ever got as kids, mother wasn't much on baking.

 

[Jstpssng]

... I've never gotten 35 years out of any clothing. Worn out well before that.

This is my experience also. A year is about average for work clothes... and that's just because for 3-5 months of the year they are in the closet as I'm wearing winter attire.

Until about 10 years ago lifespan of a pair of leather boots was measured in months.
Rubber boots would last a month if I was lucky, sometimes a few hours. On one occasion it was minutes. I somehow managed to rip the top off the steel toe before I got out of sight of the truck.
I bought a pair for breakup every spring, and however long before I punched them for the first time was how long I had dry feet that year.

 

[CalG]

The only cookies from the store were Oreos and those cream filled wafers.

Mom made the Choc chip, the PB, the snicker doodles, the sugar cookies, the Cho Chip date bars, brownies and fudge.

At the holiday time, she would go all in. But there was no one overweight in my family..even extended family.

 

[Jstpssng]

At the holiday time, she would go all in. But there was no one overweight in my family..even extended family.

Baking cookies was a holiday tradition at our house. Along with family and the school Christmas party we'd make packages for the mailman, milkman and the trash men. Until about 3 years ago my mother always had something in the freezer for when somebody helped her with anything, People called her "the Cookie Lady".
She also made over 100 dozen cookies for Christmas each year. The last year she did that it was a bit overwhelming and we convinced her that it was time to cut back.

 

[CalG]

Baking cookies was a holiday tradition at our house. Along with family and the school Christmas party we'd make packages for the mailman, milkman and the trash men. Until about 3 years ago my mother always had something in the freezer for when somebody helped her with anything, People called her "the Cookie Lady".
She also made over 100 dozen cookies for Christmas each year. The last year she did that it was a bit overwhelming and we convinced her that it was time to cut back.

My mother, age 96, still bakes cookies and has a reputation for her generosity in her community. I've learned to like the ones my wife makes now, but I would never show that to my mother ;-)

 

[masseyrider]

Cookies?
Luxury.
Cereal?
Luxury.
My mother was an excellent cook and baker.
A very high percentage of what we ate was from the farm and she cooked it.
Groceries were the basics, sugar, coffee, tea, oil and other items we didn't grow or ran out of during the winter. Some oranges and bananas. We had apples, pears home canned fruit, jams, our own wheat ground for bread flower...
I didn't taste fast food until I was old enough to start going places with my friends.
Pizza, fast food burgers etc was stuff I only saw on TV.
Packaged cookies, cereal, never tasted them.
Didn't know how lucky I was.