You Know You Are Old When

[Eagle1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952520297804136832

 

[Engineer42]

You know you're old when your first lunch box was an old Karo syrup can that your Dad personalized by punching a star in the lid with a hammer and nail.

That would be something nice to still have.

 

[newbury]

You just reminded me of the way my grandmother used to rinse out, dry, and reuse ziplock baggies. She was a teen and young adult, thru the depression. Even though they could afford to throw away and replace ziplock baggies, she just couldn't bring herself to waste anything.

I still do. Especially the larger ones. Use it once to freeze/store food, Clean it out to store parts.

 

[Alan46]

Screw that. You're old when your child starts getting AARP membership offers in the mail.

My daughter just turned 56, I guess that makes me old!!!

 

[Alan46]

Mom said you know you are old when your kids retire.

Good one!!!!!

 

[MossRoad]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952520297804136832

Best one yet!!!

 

[Alan46]

Best one yet!!!

You’re right about that!!! We had to listen to that one multiple times, every time he said “ they’re dead “ we both had to laugh!!!

 

[masseyrider]

You know you're old when your first lunch box was an old Karo syrup can that your Dad personalized by punching a star in the lid with a hammer and nail.

You know you're old when the first school lunch room smelled like 100 years of apples, fried egg and pork chop sandwiches; old bananas and bologna.

As a little guy I liked sardines. In aboot grades 3-8 I had it at least 3 times a week. Other kids didn't want to sit next to me while they ate their P&J.
Other days, mostly Mondays, I'd frequently have a thick roast beef sarnie.
Just to change it up fried chicken mid-week.
My Pa had a friend who owned a bakery. He used to make extra large individually wrapped donuts for the food trucks. Should have seen the other kids eyes after I scarfed down a big roast beef and pulled out the mega donut for afters.
And I was a slender kid.
I never really ate P&j until my 40s. I keep a jar around but rarely partake.

 

[masseyrider]

YKYO when you run into someone you haven't seen for years at the doctors office and they introduce you to their kid who drove them there.
The kid you remember with his thumb in his mouth sitting on a smelly nappy.
The kid that now has some gray in his receding hairline holding his grandson..

 

[not2old]

My first feeling old experience was when my son first got his driver's license and drove away from home alone. That was over 34 years ago.