When you drop mom off at the senior care facility and the thought crosses your mind about moving in because you like the accommodations.

And you think the ladies there are hot.

LTG : )

Oh, you had rocks? All we had were memories.

The one helping mom wasn't half bad.

Down, boy

When artists you followed and enjoyed your whole life dies.

When you argue with stubborn zealots about why they should not try to force their medical and science beliefs down your throat. And why just because they say you should get a flu shot, you say that is not really any of their business.

Yeah. Stupid doctors and scientists. They don't know what they're talking about.

I'm amazed at how many doctors and scientists, along with lawyers and financial advisors there are on pinside.

Well it is a deep pocket hobby.

Even many that actually work are in this hobby.

You're old when these were what you used to write your first computer program. You're really old when you remember keeping these as a souvenir in a really safe place, but take months to remember where exactly they were stashed.

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i think you would agree that if you are having a bad day at work that pinball can be a good way to zone out for a few minutes.

...when you just find out Norman Lear.....All in the Family, Jeffersons, Maude, cold Turkey is still around at 97!

(Love the Punchcards, Just threw away my bunch when I wrote business software in COBOL used by Wang and IBM in the late 70s early 80s....where did the time go!)

...when you finally have a new pinball theme that peaks your interest and have made it more than well known you are in on it with only 750 going to be available, and sleep through the announcement that they are now on sale.

Maybe....When you hear about a Rick and Morty pinball where 750 are being made...and have to look up, "who in the hell is Rick and Morty".

I guess I must not be old then. Any other threads for the under 60 crowd?

I know I am old, I can not even play pinball for long before I ache and pain and have to stop.

I hear you. Actually not so well. I cant hang at a pinball show with all the noise at once.
Too many Concerts standing next to speakers in the 80s....Lost an eardrum from System of a Down,
who also saved my ass in the hospital once.

Ahh... that's piques, my man. Piques.

This piques my interest....

My 1st job after tech school was working on keypunch machines!! I kept as a souvenir the card registration gauge!

You know you are old when lighting your birthday cake is a high risk proposition.
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When even pinball machines themed around Stranger Things, Rick and Morty or Toy Story don't get you excited.
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Pro tip:

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Wasted effort cotton.

I stand corrected.

I learned COBOL on these babies - also FORTRAN. We had one keypunch machine for the entire class of about 20, so a lot of time was spent filling in black bubbles on the MAPO cards, or trying to convince someone to trade for more machine time so you could keypunch instead. We used to run all the big jobs on the weekend as we were long-distance over the phone to connect to the mainframe, and weekend rates were way cheaper than weekdays. The good old days!

It is just the vagaries of pronouncing and spelling the English language.

By hook or by crook, the cook took a look at the book to read what it took to sit at the edge of the brook and talk to a kook (why not Kuke?)who could not figure out that shuger is really spelled as sugar. The cook shook when the book said to be careful and not spook the kook (spuke the kuke does not look right, does it?) by telling him there was no "sh" in sugar.

Your next assignment is to try and read about what I have already read.

My interest is also piqued in how the phrase "peak oil" has disappeared from the lexicon with the advent of fracking for oil in South Dakota and also in the Texas Permian Basin.

Im glad you asked!

I was having about 5 days of extreme Abdominal Pain.
After 9 hours in the Emergency Room, They gave me Morphine.
I spent a week in the hospital. Each day, 1 test. No answers only pain.
The Morphine kept me awake all night.....I didnt sleep for days, and was hallucinating much of the time,
trading live chickens in my room for Hospital food and pain meds.....Try to imagine that!
Well they were now up to exploratory surgery....they had no clue, and the attending old GI specialist, asks me about my pain, where i replied it feels like I have a softball up my ass!
He replies, "Did I give you an Internal Exam?"
I stated..."Dont you know?"
He yells out, "Nurse, I need Gloves and lube".
Well, now he is inside me, in a way, that there is no joy, and my cell phone is next to him and starts ringing loud. I had it set to Toxicity, I believe as a ringtone.
He yells, "What the Fuck is that!!!"
Jerks his hand up, clears an impaction, and in 15 minutes I am all better.
7 days, a huge bill, no sleep, all pain, and a big surgery avoided, thanks to System of a Down!

Oh yes, Cobol, Fortran, Assembler...RPG was my favorite.
I coded Inventory Control, Personnel Database, and Manufacturing Modules.
When I go to check my car today for repair, they still use a DOS program, and I can see a bit of me in there. At that time, when it migrated to PC Cobol, Wordstar, DbaseI and II, Clipper, standards for F1-10 were not yet normalized, nor was standards for indexing.
I added a persons pic to a database file, which had not yet been done for early 8088 PCs, and Sold that to Wang and IBM, I gave it to Microsoft, as Bill Gates was kind enough to write letters with me and our school Beta tested really early protos for Windows. Xtree was the DOS shell used then...
The gold old days, printing pictures on impact printers using charachters!!

I remember the punchcards using PL-1 in my college computer class. If you made one error on the card you were screwed.

I tried explaining punchcards to some of the youngsters at work. They had no idea what I was talking about or that computers used to be the size of a room.

It might only pique or stimulate your interest, bur Rick and Morty peaks mine.

What the f#ck does that mean? You had an angry dookie lodged up there?

QSS

Yes, the IBM AS/400 system. We still use it at my day job, and I work for a large corporation with over 10k employees! That IBM system is unbreakable. I see it still used all over the place. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I know I am old when I can still put a grand champion score on someone elses TronLE.

Thats one way to put it!

Solution.....Chew your food well! Especially a big bag of roasted Peanuts!

Peanuts are not your friend if you eat a lot of them...not the 1st time I heard this after a peanut craving, don't go crazy over them. Peanuts are good for you, as long as you don't over do it in one setting...then yes, that Can happen.

All IBM equipment in those days were built like tanks. I loved working on the AS-400!!
IBM MAPS usually took you right to the problem.

And the contestants had to use their winnings to buy expensive prizes.

I like the one where the contestants had to use their winnings to buy bargain prizes.

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I started on an old IBM 360, before it was upgraded to a 370.
The 370 had up to 8 Megabytes of memory!

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I started on one of these.
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The IBM 360 picture reminded me that I had to wear a jacket and tie to work when I first started... when I retired, people were coming to work in shorts and flip flops...

Yeah, we worked together ....You still owe me from that game of pool!

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I never could figure out how to use one of these...

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When you remember when everybody on the highway had one of these.

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When words and phrases like these mean something.

Shake the trees.

Rake the leaves.

Riding in the rocking chair.

Double nickel (very painful when driving on the interstate).

There was cab-over Pete with a reefer on and a Jimmy hauling hogs.

Got your ears on?

Later Gator.

There is a bear in the air and I'm on the side.

I will admit I once asked for the senior discount at a restaurant.

I have been getting those for years. My hair went gray in my late 20's.

You know you are old if ...

This is you riding the elevator.

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You know you are old if ...

This is how you selfie.

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You know you are old if ...

This is how you weigh yourself (?)

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Did you get the discount or did the shop think you were trying to game the system