When you get the senior discount without you or the cashier even asking for it...

I had this happen about a week ago at a Dunkin' Donuts. I was buying two breakfast sandwiches and coffee for myself and my wife, and the young thing behind the counter puts the senior discount in, which I didn't notice until I read the receipt. I had conflicting feelings, as I was kinda annoyed that she perceived me to be that old, while happy to save $1.32.

My wife (who is 8 years my junior) thought it was hilarious...

Ha! I'm in the latter category as well! We still had them just at the beginning of my teaching career; even had the hand-crank version, rather than the automatic.

Oh, well done...

Oooooo....very scaaarrry!!

That's the one I thought was originally being talked about.

...when a fart becomes...oh, nevermind.

I recently had the same experience. I have an old family photo in a cabinet, and while looking at it one day, I realized that I am now older than my dad was when that picture was taken. Man, this going fast...

I can remember when you had to buy alcohol from state liquor stores in NY; doesn't seem all that long ago.

Maybe PA was what I was thinking.

Who doesn't?

Ha! My phones still have dials on them!

I'm finding that as I get older, my body is having a much lower tolerance for fast food. It seems that every time I have something like BK or Taco Bell, I pay for it soon after. And don't even get me started about White Castles. I used to be able to eat a ton of those when I was a kid. Now, not so much...

Here's the three-slot payphone that I have in my gameroom:

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That phone number is actually my current phone number.

I have a couple of other old-time phones that I still use in my house. A candlestick, a Western Electric 202, and a Dreyfus phone (like you saw on "I Love Lucy"). All of them work perfectly.

"An-thon-eeeeey!!!!!"

Or even the surrender of one man's (credit) card in order to do it.

I've always been partial to Myrna Loy myself...

Hedy Lamarr was also an inventor; she co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum, which subsequently led to early versions of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Beauty and brains!

...when Bruce Springsteen makes the cover of this month's AARP Magazine.

...or like shooting pool with a piece of rope!

...you remember the local "5 & 10" (and know what a "5 & 10" is!).

In a similar vein...

In the first stage of life, you talk about all of the great sex you've had.

In the second stage of life, you talk about all of the great meals you've had.

In the last stage of life, you talk about all of the great bowel movements you've had.

Amazing, isn't it, that these phones were, at one time, all over the place, and you wouldn't even give them a second thought. But now when you see one, it's like this strange oddity out of the past that you now point out? I still recall using a 3-slot payphone in front of a fire house near where I went to elementary school, calling home.

BTW, I have a 3-slot in my game room; it's fully functional (and my son knows how to use the dial to make a call!).

Well, I'm not THAT old!

I teach middle school and am near retirement. I find that I have to catch myself about things like this constantly.

Agreed. The one that I truly can't figure out is pre-cooked bacon that you heat up in the microwave. Geez, you can make bacon in the microwave very easily.microwave bacon (resized).jpg

Oh sure; you don't listen to your wife, but listen to some stranger...

I think that was PF Flyers, but I could be wrong...

Wow; you got Radio Shack and Circuit City in the same post! Well done!

Ha! I ordered the Hovercraft Air Car in the upper right corner; also was a big disappointment. Cheapie plastic, and the "remote control" was attached in the center. Ugh!

Speaking of capitalism, look at the ad directly below it for the Star Trek spaceships; $2.95 each, or $6.95 for both!

Cool! PBR!

Yep, I can honestly say I've done that before...

That would be Perry White on "The Adventures of Superman".

I think I had mentioned this a while ago, but the one I still don't get is the pre-cooked, microwaveable bacon. Good golly, it's so darn easy to cook regular bacon in the microwave. I can't believe people see that and say, "Hey; great idea!"

Yeah, whenever I see these in the store I always laugh to myself...

Well, I guess then I'm glad someone is getting something out of it. For 30 seconds more for each strip, you can have the real thing.

What?...

Such a great pic!

... and you shop at Dollarama.

"Lilies of the Field"; GREAT film!

I remember always seeing those "Fallout Shelter" signs inside and outside of my school building, and most public buildings, and not really knowing what the heck they meant. I started going to school in the late 60s, and by that time, those drills had pretty much stopped.

Just for fun, I found one of those signs and it now is on the wall in my game room.

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Yes! I had one of those, too, back in the day.

Thanks for the compliments on the game room, guys. I'm going to be posting some updated photos of the whole room on the game room thread within the next few days.

Yep; I have seen that all too often in my house too!

Now that I am retired, I, too, have become a fan of the afternoon nap.

My experience was similar, but in my case, the age requirements changed after I had just turned the now-required age. It felt like they were changing it just to accommodate me personally.

Heck, I sit down to do both!

The fact that you guys know these techniques is somewhat disturbing to me.

... when you remember that "Deadwood" was originally on HBO...

...when you can't remember how many times you put on and take off your glasses when doing any task.

I understand she was very fluent in Jive...

Hmm, sounds to me like that was a last-minute idea for a project...

Everyone is kinda doing it already by carrying a cellphone around...

"Hot Rod Lincoln" for me, too. I still have the 45

... when that trimmer that you bought to maintain your goatee all those years ago is now used exclusively for trimming nose hair, ear hair, and eyebrows.

Yep, could be. The thing that I remember about drinking at 18 was that it seemed they started to again raise the age every time I had a birthday. When I turned 19, they raised the age to 19, and then to 21 when I became 21. I started to feel like I was personally responsible for them raising the drinking age.

One lasting image I have about smoking is being in elementary school, and when passing by the Teacher's Room, if the door opened, a big cloud of smoke would come out into the hallway.

Most definitely known in this household.

RIP

Interesting. Now I'm not sure if she loves you or hates you...

...when you fall going up the stairs and fracture a bone in your hand. Ask me how I know...

...when you call it a Roku box...

Oh absolutely! I started out with a Chrome stick years ago, but switched to a Roku shortly thereafter; I've now been using Roku products for over a decade. You are correct; much better than cable.

BTW, Roku is Japanese for "six", symbolizing the sixth company that founder Anthony Wood created (which makes me feel as if I have accomplished very little in my lifetime...)

No argument there.

Well done!

Grew up in the NYC metro area in the 60s; we pretty much had the entirety of the VHF stations covered:
2- WCBS
4- WNBC
5- WNEW (independent)
7- WABC
9- WOR (ind.)
11- WPIX (ind.)
13- WNET (PBS) (Star Trek, every night at 6pm!)

Also had a number of UHF stations, but hardly ever watched those (reception was awful)

With that lineup, we considered ourselves lucky to have that kind of variety.

Yes. Here they were broadcast from the top of the Empire State Building, and later the World Trade Center.

I'm back to an antenna, too...

How about the DC-10?...

Yes, I was being somewhat sarcastic about the DC-10. I remember a few trips on them as a kid, but I also remember that they were eventually pulled from service because of fuselage cracking, especially around the area of the tail engine.

Now, if you really want to talk about a classic, I'll take the DC-3, thank you.

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Oh yes! I remember that they had a little sign attached to the top of a seat to distinguish where the smoking section was separated from non-smoking. Like a sign would stop the smoke from floating around the cabin.

Remember when KFC had the $5 Fill-up? That thing is well over $10 now.

Congrats! I hit 62 last Saturday.

Yeah, I'm putting it off, too. I'm doing OK right now, so trying to hold off until 67.

Oh good lordy! I haven't heard that in a dog's age.

Thanks for that!

I remember these as well. They spread like wildfire very quickly, but after all that stuff came out about them shattering and stuff, they disappeared just as quickly.

I don't know; maybe we were a bit tougher with regard to our toys than they are nowadays: