You Know You Are Old When

[thepumpguysc]

^^^ lol.!!!
I know whatcha mean..
Every day I walk in the house there’s a new stream of blood somewhere on my body.!! Lol
Took me many years but I finally learned to put on those dam “safety glasses” BEFORE turning on the grinder.!! Lol

 

[QRTRHRS]

After being out in the heat mowing and trimming yesterday, I threw my clothes into the washer. Later, I went for my phone. Finally found it, all cleaned up! It was a Motorola that I bought when I switched carriers last spring. I did not much like that phone anyway....

 

[Oaktree]

When will that happen! Every day my wife & I are working and it seems more work than ever after retirement!!!

I hear ya! Don't know how I ever got anything done when I was still working fulltime.

After being out in the heat mowing and trimming yesterday, I threw my clothes into the washer. Later, I went for my phone. Finally found it, all cleaned up! It was a Motorola that I bought when I switched carriers last spring. I did not much like that phone anyway....

My wife is always leaving a kleenex or two in a pocket then putting it in the wash.

 

[LouNY]

I hear ya! Don't know how I ever got anything done when I was still working fulltime.

My wife is always leaving a kleenex or two in a pocket then putting it in the wash.

As far as getting anything done, it always seems to take a lot longer now a days

It's usually not my wife leaving anything in the pockets, I'll have to admit it's me, my, I and usually a wadded up blue paper towel.

 

[masscity]

I left a blue paper towel in my pants pocket that went into the wash, it came out in perfect shape.

 

[Runner]

The cell phone discussion in another thread reminds me that you may be old if you had a phone number with the exchange in it. I still remember my parents' number from when I was little (rotary dial phone, of course): FL6-3390. The FL exchange was for "Flemming".

 

[Alan46]

The cell phone discussion in another thread reminds me that you may be old if you had a phone number with the exchange in it. I still remember my parents' number from when I was little (rotary dial phone, of course): FL6-3390. The FL exchange was for "Flemming".

I remember our exchange JE, for Jerome in the Bronx in the forties!…….so long ago

 

[LouNY]

MY for Myrtle, MY2-2664 later 692-2664 .
No idea who it goes to now.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

^^^ lol.!!!
I know whatcha mean..
Every day I walk in the house there’s a new stream of blood somewhere on my body.!! Lol
Took me many years but I finally learned to put on those dam “safety glasses” BEFORE turning on the grinder.!! Lol

The grinder I use almost every day is like this, except without the tool rests, shields anywhere and larger motor mounted below with a big clutch spring on it for more belt tension. I've never bogged it down. Never.
Yesterday my 40 something neighbor stops by for me to sharpen his mower blades, so I hoist his mower up like a tuna with an overhead electric winch and use an impact gun.
When I turn on the grinder the shop lights dim as he heads for the door terrified watching me in a shower of sparks.
After checking their balance I zip the blades on, as I let the mower down he asks "didn't all those sparks hurt?". "No but the last wheel did when it split in two, I never did find the other half".
Young people think old people are crazy, but we have to get an adrenaline rush somehow.

 

[masseyrider]

We had 7 digit numbers. As a kid it always made me wonder on tv shows when they asked the operator to get them a number it would be like Mayberry 555.
What my parents had until the 80s was a partyline.
Pain as a teen getting calls and having to keep them brief. Or trying to make a call and the line was busy.
One of the gossips liked to listen in. You could always tell because she had a large clock in her kitchen that you could hear ticking in the background.
My buddy and I would bait her, starting to hint about drugs and one of the neighbor girls being free with her wares and stuff like that.
I had the worst reputation in the hood because of that.