You Know You Are Old When

[Alan46]

You know you are old when your first breakfast cereal was named "Cheeri Oats".

Why Cheerios Once Went By A Different Name - Daily Meal


Now let's go back about 75 years. I was staying with my grandparents one Summer, when I contracted ringworm all over my side and stomach. I showed it to grand pa, and he told me to put the juice from green walnuts on it. Lucky it was that time of year; I followed his advice and it really worked.

Miss those days!!!

 

[WinterDeere]

Wow. I’m old enough to remember when Honey Nut Cheerios hit the scene, the original Cheerios tasted like cardboard to me. My 12 year old likes to call my childhood “the olden days”.

Of course, she thinks I’m contemporary with Elvis or Sinatra, not Alanis Morrisette or Jimmy Fallon.

 

[JethroB]

Here's a memory from 60+ years ago. If I misbehaved in school (often ) teacher sent me home to write "I will not act up in class" 500 times on notebook paper. I would go to our garage & cut a strip of wood or use an old wooden ruler and mark it like every 1/2", the line spacing on notebook paper. Then drill holes in a row for pencils. So I'd have 20 pencils in a row only having to write it 25 times. It worked great!

We had a third grade teacher who had a creative and humiliating punishment for misbehaving. She would draw a circle on the chalk board and you had to hold your nose to and inside the circle. .

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We had a third grade teacher who had a creative and humiliating punishment for misbehaving. She would draw a circle on the chalk board and you had to hold your nose to and inside the circle. .

Did you guys have the electric paddle? The rumor was they had an electric paddle in the principal's office, but they only used it in extreme cases. Seems they broke a kid's back with it, so they didn't use it much any more.

 

[rontaki]

I think we were at the exact same Walmart today! Were you in S. Virginia by chance?
Wife & I 71,73 but wow! All these old people on dope or pain meds & we smelled alcohol.
Moving slower than a sloth & probably their bowels.
I'm waiting to get catfood this old (late 60s going on 100 ) woman in my way, drops treats which breaks open, she puts it back treats spilling everywhere & she's pushing them under shelves thinking...what...?
Then at self check out these befuddled old fots not knowing what to do fooling around.
Some old guy had something hairy hanging out his shorts I didn't want to see. Old women with no bra. Basket loads of diapers they had on clearance.
A geriatric zoo on steroids! People holding onto sh*t for balance. Then leaving these same idiots DRIVING! Weaving around like they're drunk, blocking the road.
I finally just hollered "you're gonna miss Lawrence Welk if you don't find the gas pedal!". Dammmmm!!!!!

Made my day!

 

[rontaki]

We had a third grade teacher who had a creative and humiliating punishment for misbehaving. She would draw a circle on the chalk board and you had to hold your nose to and inside the circle. .

Would have been a great time for a productive sneeze.

 

[sixdogs]

You might be older if you remember milk bottles like these and standing in line with a full one at the grocery checkout.

Found this one while cleaning the shop.

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[BravoXray]

We had a third grade teacher who had a creative and humiliating punishment for misbehaving. She would draw a circle on the chalk board and you had to hold your nose to and inside the circle. .

One our grade school teachers did that too. Don't remember which one though. Would have been in the late 50s.
The principal had a big ol' paddle, The Corrector, that hung on his office wall. Was full of holes for better aerodynamics, and was made by the wood shop teacher for him. Didn't get a lot of use, but when it did, everyone anywhere close could hear it being applied.

 

[newbury]

Much of our grade school punishment for young to teenage boys made you stronger or tougher.
Rulers hit across the knuckles, standing with arms stretched out supporting a book in each hand, carrying supplies up from the basement to the third floor.

 

[WinterDeere]

You might be older if you remember milk bottles like these and standing in line with a full one at the grocery checkout.

Found this one cleaning the shop.

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We still buy our milk in returnable glass jugs, 1/2 gallon. But we have a few local dairy farms that still have farm stores, selling their local milk products.