You Know You Are Old When. . .

Sorry if this has already been said because I haven't read the entire thread.
You know you're old when you couldn't keep up with MaryAnn, let alone Ginger, so now Mrs. Howell is your choice!

And if you have any idea what I'm talking about.....you're old!!!

Depends how old you'll go. Last I checked, Barbara Eden was still looking good!

Yeah, but that's a very old photo.

Ah. Great minds think alike. I gave you a thumbs up!

Damn. But, she's still breathin'!

Yeah, you could tell back then that Mary Ann would definitely age better than Ginger. A big plus for the long term.

Yup. First time I went to a McDonald's,
with family of four (I was one of the kids of course). Total bill was 3.60.
I don't even know if the Big Mac was around then.

Forgive me again if this has been already mentioned, but you're old if you remember opening your beer can with a metal opener which punched a triangular hole in the top of a steel (not aluminum) can.
First you made a little "vent" hole, then spun the can 180° and made your drinking hole.
Heck, you're even old if you remember the first generation "pop" tops. You pulled an aluminum ring which peeled a tab out of the top of the can. The biggest problem with that was, now you had a separate little somewhat sharp sliver of aluminum with a ring attached to it. Many a cut toe or foot at the beach, as these things were everywhere!
I believe Coors was the first to address this problem with little "push buttons" on their cans which would remain attached to the lid.

Along the same lines, you're old here on the east coast if you remember when Coors first became available, and you were, of course, of legal age (18!) to buy it. It was like $3.99/six pack which was astronomical at the time!

Same here.

Yeah, for sure! At least some of them were put to some use.

Heck, I'd never leave!

Interestink!
Reminds me of a story.
A long time ago, my dad used to do side jobs; mostly painting, carpentry, plumbing and such. Often, I would go with him, even by the time I was ten.
We were once doing a job in an old lady's basement apartment. She was busy peeling apples and making dough for an apple pie as my dad and I were sawing through boards and hammering nails. Suddenly, his circular saw crapped out. The motor probably overheated and died, and he didn't have another saw. So my dad explained to the woman that the job might take us a little longer because the power saw died, and we had to cut the rest of the lumber by hand.
She innocently peered at us and said "maybe it needs new batteries."
My dad and I looked at each other half smirking, and he said to her that a saw like this doesn't use batteries.
Of course at that time, battery powered tools were totally unheard of!
That old lady must have been seeing into the future!

Yeah, and we used to smoke on the school bus!

Well "by George", IN the school bus, not ON the school bus!

I still think Mary Ann wins.

And being allowed to wait at the gate with your family or others who were waiting to board?

....you remember when all you would see on TV at 4AM were test patterns.

Read through the whole thing. Post #97 beat you to it!

"I'm watching a movie about Indians."
"That's not a movie. That's a test pattern, man!"
"I thought it was pretty boring, man!"

Heck, I remember when ESPN was mostly color bars and a tone. They didn't have much to show, and would play the same bowling tournament telecast three times a day!

....when you remember when nobody knew what a bagel was!
....when you remember life before microwave ovens (how did we live without them?).

No, it's "back in my day..."

...an oak tree you planted from an acorn now looks like this...

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Those were great. We used to laugh our asses off going through a fresh pack of them!

Busted many a gut laughing at MAD magazine!

Heck, they sponsored many TV shows including "The Flintstones". Check this out!

...you remember when you could run like the wind. Now, you just break like the wind!

Watching baseball playoff series, so
you know you're old if you remember no AL DH, and you're really old if you remember no divisional play; just the World Series between the first place teams in the AL and NL.

.....just about all the guys on your old baseball cards that you remember as players, are now dead.

But you wouldn't go there anyway because you know they would laugh too hard!

His name is Vinko Bogataj, and he was actually unhurt in that horrific spill.

...you remember when LED was always followed by ZEPPELIN!

Yup. They were two-stroke engines.

...you're no longer the "go-to guy" for a super tight jar lid!

I got it. I almost pissed myself laughing the first time I saw that skit!

Rheingold Extra Dry!

Your favorite '70s band, YES, now sings, "I get down..... I can't get back uuuuuu-up".

I like self-checkout, but my wife hates them.

When of course there are no alternatives other than MILFs or GMILFs!