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My grandkids are the same age as most of my co-workers actual kids.
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Quoted from pacmanretro:Use it much or not these days, I think it's weird to NOT have a real map in the glove box...of at least the state you live in...
My wife is a pain in the ass on a road trip until she gets a map. Its like giving a baby a pacifier, shuts her right up. She loves using them.
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Quoted from RCA1:How many were "Members" of the Columbia record and tape club, multiple times?
Shoot, i joined that thing at least 3 or 4 times....12 cd's for a penny, buy one for $9.99, cancel membership.....rinse and repeat.....
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Quoted from pacmanretro:Yeah....but without the audio
One of my single buddies showed up at our house once about 20 years ago with 2 full garbage bags - he drops them in the middle of the living room and says "Here's all my old porn, I've switching everything to DVD". I say, "Dude, we have kids, I can't have a hundred pornos here" - so i grabbed a few select titles and had him dispose of the rest elsewhere -
"Funny Porn Stories"...that would be an interesting thread.
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Quoted from pacmanretro:I still keep real maps in my car....I'm not sure what is scarier, that I have used them still or that there are generations that don't even know how to.
Can you even still get free state maps at visitors centers etc?
Hell no - i don't think they even HAVE maps at the visitors centers anymore. We paid at least $7.00 for the last map we bought a couple months ago. The wife loves using them, and is an absolute pain in the ass on a road trip until she gets one. Then it's like giving candy to a baby - not a peep.
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Quoted from bayoubilly70:When you try to find your reading glasses and you can't find them anywhere...but the whole time they were on your head
When you start buying them in the 3-pair value packs, so you can leave one in the car, one in the living room, one in the bedroom....
because you can never remember where they are............
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Quoted from jeffspinballpalace:You know you are old if ...
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You know you are old if....you confuse an escalator for an elevator..... 
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Quoted from poppapin:Do what I did, move to a townhouse, they take care of all that shit!!
I'll be doing that when we finally downsize - we just moved 5 years ago and created the game room we always wanted, I'm not moving all these bastards again lol
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Quoted from RWH:Back in 1970 I had a cop search me and found my pot, 1/2 an oz. I was really scared as pot back then carried 20 to 40yrs but he poured it out into the river and told me to get my ass out of there and never let him see me there again. I got the hell outta there!
A cop pulled me over one night with a few buddies in the car, found my pipe and a small bag. He hands me the pipe and says "See how far you can throw that", so I whipped it into a field. Then he told us to get the hell out of there. He kept the bag.
Quoted from frenchmarky:...you watch a morning, afternoon or late night talk show and you haven't the damnedest idea who the hell 98% of the guests are or why the host(s) are famous enough to have their own show. Same with any and all of the celebrities that they gossip about on TMZ.
And half of those "celebrities" are just famous for being famous - who gives a flying fuc$ what a Kardashian is doing???
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My sister texted a pic to the family of my dad and my niece when she was a newborn - I'm about 3 years older than my dad was in the pic. Niece is about to get married, 27 years old. Pic from 1993.
Someone stop this ride, I wanna get off.
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I've been reading this science book, "Everything you wanted to know about the world"...something like that....and it's talking about "as far back as the 70s, tectonic plates were still not accepted/recognized by half the geologists in the United States......
My god, I was drooling over girls in gym class in junior high in the 70s.....
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Quoted from oldskool1969:Turned 51 today and realised I have lived 3/4 of my life
You mean, if all goes as planned...............lol
Happy Birthday!
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Quoted from zr11990:Back in the day The schools would have whipped their ass and the cops would have shot the person shooting at him like the dog that he is. If the former would happen there would be a lot less of the latter, but you know, liberals. A kid told my wife to fuck off and she sent him to the office and the principle gave him candy and told him he couldnt talk to teachers like that.
Fuck the "liberals" excuse. Shitty parenting has created those kids. Identify the root cause.
Whining that a teacher or cop can't beat or shoot them "like the dogs they are" is like kicking your dog for pissing in the house when you've been gone all day, but you know, conservatives.
Quoted from Budman:When you have absolutely no clue who the entertainer is for this next Super Bowl.... “ Weeknd”
that is SO 19 hours ago........
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Quoted from Scotty_K: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?
A few years into getting my first cell phone way back when, I had left my buddies house, got about 3 miles down the expressway and had car trouble. I walked to the rest area that was luckily only about a half mile away, went up to the pay phone, picked up the receiver, and realized I didn't remember his phone number. I hadn't dialed it in years, since now he was just Speed Dial "5".
I saw the area code on the middle of the dial, and after about 30 seconds I was able to remember the first few digits and the rest finally came back to me.
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Quoted from cdnpinbacon:What's this? New weather girl?
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Looks like there's a big front moving in.......
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Quoted from frenchmarky:...when I took one of my EBD's pop bumpers apart last night to replace a chipped-up skirt and wasted time unsoldering and re-soldering the lamp wires because I forgot they can just be unplugged from the stupid socket even though I'm the one that installed the playfield 20 years ago.
In your defense, it WAS 20 years ago.....
You know you are old when 20 years feels more like 5.
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Quoted from TractorDoc:What is the going rate for a beer on a night out in the modern era anyway? I suppose it may vary depending on the area you live in -- as well as the type of beer.
Depends more on where you're standing.
Dive bar on the corner? $2.50
Sports venue or titty bar? $12.00
Quoted from PinballAir:Haven't been to a titty bar in at least 30 years.
My friends stopped inviting them to them (not that they went very often). You know, the girls eventually come over to the table and start talking to you, and I found that most of the time (not ALL the time) they had a head on their shoulders, and rather than work someplace else making less money, their attitude was to take their clothes off instead. And it always frustrated me and I rarely had a good time.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Oh come on, "You look nice today" will land you in jail?
Careful, I can almost hear the Karen response.... "Is that how you determine my worth as a female? My looks? Am I supposed to be appreciative that you find my appearance acceptable? Wake up. Fucking chauvinist."
or words to that effect....
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We were working on the porch at my son's place last year, its just 3 steps high, and I was gonna hop off onto the driveway (concrete), and I though damn, that's gonna hurt my ankles, and i walked the 10 feet over to the 3 steps and went down them instead.....and felt old....
Quoted from cottonm4:I'm out as a candy bar buyer, today. I keep seeing candy bars priced at $2.20 each. I can't do it.
I returned some Amazon thing to KOHLS a few weeks ago, and the guys says "Heres a $5 coupon, get some candy bars or something." So I go up to the front counter on the way out and throw 3 candy bars on the counter, and the girls says "That'll be $7.25...".........
wtf.......
Quoted from cottonm4:Well, did you dig out another $2.25? Or did you put one back?
i put one back. Fuck that.
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Quoted from cottonm4:People embraced death back then.
https://thefuneralsource.org/hi0301.html
Until the mid 1800’s most families cared their own dead.
They prepared, dressedand displayed their loved ones within
the confines of their own home. Early American houses often did not have
parlors, however as houses grew, and national mannerisms became more set,
proper families made sure they had front rooms filled with their finest possessions,
quality furniture, portraits, sterling silver and often a piano. Because these rooms
were usually clean, closed off, and quite formal, people often used them when
someone died as a place to lay out the body and allow funeral visits. The body
was usually displayed in a casket that was made or even purchased at the General
store.
more at the link.
My grandparents had the large sliding funeral parlor doors in their old house in Detroit.
Quoted from hlaj78:Or while you were smoking one in Ann Arbor
Had a cop pull over me and my buddies one night, after a search he hands me my pipe and says "See how far you can throw that"....so I pitched it into the darkness. Then he let us go. He kept my bag of weed though.
Hi Howie!
Quoted from hlaj78:Hi Don. Yeah: Those were the days. So were the early years of the pinball league.
I agree on both.........
Quoted from RTS:This could be its own topic.
I ordered the stupid ghost that flies with a remote control. It's shown in the bottom left corner. It was a a white balloon with a plastic cover and fishing line. To make it fly, just add helium. Learned about false advertising at an early age.
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Wow, step aboard the Wabac machine!
Over the years I ordered the hand buzzer, spy telescope and radio, X ray specs.....
Quoted from jrpinball:Quick link
Yeah, I know what you're saying; they're playing the record, and lip sync-ing. NOT!
Someone please tell me what this song is about...i heard it's about drugs.............what's the "25 or 6 to 4?"
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Quoted from jrpinball:You know you're old when you go to a store and can't wait to leave because of the "music" they're blasting. I really think a lot of these places choose the most annoying and grating stuff they can play, and if you're at Home Depot or Lowes, it's constantly being interrupted with BOOP BOOP; (announcement here). I thought the idea was to keep you IN the store, not drive you OUT!
If you remember Muzak, you're old. At the time we thought it sucked (because we were rock and rollers), but now I really miss it. Just soothing background music with NO screeching lyrics.
"If it's too loud....."
i probably still can't hear it.
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Quoted from phil-lee:When you remember watching the evacuation of Vietnam Live. So much has changed since then.
I'll say. Today we can watch the live evacuation of Afghanistan.
Quoted from swampfire:I remember coming home from the pool, getting into the car with just my swim trunks on, and having to use that hot metal buckle. It’s a big decision: do I burn my stomach, or do I burn my pecker?
Your pecker thanks you......
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Quoted from Vino:May I nominate a hometown vintage? - saw her in Cobra Kai recently- she’s aged well.
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I've loved her ever since "Adventures in Babysitting" in the 80s............
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Quoted from cdnpinbacon:I also remember being in pre school saying to myself I'm going to stare at the finger paint cans and remember this image forever..I focused and stared for about a minute!...It actually worked and another time in a downtown coffee shop with my parents ..worked again when I was very young. 2 memories seared in my thoughts.
I've done the same thing - dad has owned a sailboat since we were very young, and when we'd go on vacation, I would lay at the very front, and look down into the water as the bow cut through it, dragging my hand in it and listening to the waves. I consciously remember wanting to remember that forever, and concentrating on it. Another time was in my early 20s getting ready for a night of hell raising - looked in the mirror - long hair, young, strong, feather earring, leather jacket - and I stood there and burned that image in to remember when i was old (now).
About a year ago, the wife and I were talking, and I said to her "Our lives are going to be a lot different in 5 years - all 3 of our cats will be dead, probably one or more of our parents, the last of the kids will be gone, and I'll hopefully be retired." One of the furbabies, our favorite, passed away a few months ago from kidney failure.
Change is coming.
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Quoted from cottonm4:I can see the convenience point, but there is about 30% less bacon in those precooked packages with no reduction in package price. I can also see your point about making up some BLT's quickly. No muss. No fuss.
I dont like the house smelling like grease for 48 hours afterwards - I've taken to making it on the grill outside w the flattop thing I picked up this summer.
Picture for reference only - that's not actually bacon...
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Quoted from cottonm4:Words we have to spell.
w.a.l.k.
g.o.
p.a.r.k.
That's funny....our son and his dog visit for dinner every Sunday, and we wipe her paws when she comes in from outside. We always count as we do each one..."one...two....three...FOUR!" and she bolts - i told the wife "She thinks "four" means "RUN!" lol
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This may not really have to do with getting old, maybe it does, I dunno.
I ordered a Godzilla that will hopefully be available in March, about 225 miles from home.
I was going to pick it up myself and save $200, plus not risk Fedex dropping the thing on it's head. But doing the math, after a full tank of gas in my Dodge Ram ($75), is it really worth 8 hours to save $125?
Quoted from TractorDoc:As I get older, one of the things I find most valuable is my time. I can make more money, find another pinball machine, etc. -- but I cannot add more hours to the day!
I know - I'm thinking, the weather will (maybe) be breaking by late March, take a spin down through Ohio and drive home w a new game in the truck, you know - sounds romantic on paper.........I'll prob end up getting it delivered. LOL
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Quoted from electricsquirrel:This was my go-to album for uh...….seeds.[quoted image]
Woo hoo! My stepbrother wanted to borrow my bike one day, and traded me BTO Not Fragile to use it!
I remember the cover was pressed, and you could feel the ridges of the gears.
The song "Not Fragile" is HEAVY. I cue that one up in the car on occasion.
Quoted from cottonm4:Was one of the few bands I got to see in the 60s. I remember the harp player was called Magic Dick. I recall having a good time so they must have put on a decent show.
and Love Stinks.
When I was in junior high, both J Geils and Bob Seger would sell out Cobo Hall for 6 days straight.
Quoted from cottonm4:Yes. Ramblin' Gamblin' man with that cool drum sound. Was Glen Frey singing with him at the time?
That I don't know...........
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Quoted from cottonm4:A new acronym !
i thought maybe some old timer was having a seizure at his keyboard.
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During the recording of Destroyer, Ace Frehley didn't even show up some days. Or he'd be getting wasted in the lobby and come back to the studio and ask the session guy "How did I sound?" and they'd laugh and tell him he sounded fuckin' great.
I knew they touched up KISS Alive big time in the studio too.
Some bands recorded shit so fast they didnt have time for studio guys. Van Halen recorded their second album in 3 weeks, and I think the first one was done in half that.
Quoted from zr11990:I thought that was later, like in the Dynasty days.
Nope, it was early. That cool harmony lead on "Detroit Rock City?" Not Ace.
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Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Any of you old farts not check out Melanie Joly...the best looking Canadian foreign affairs minister ever??
Very intelligent classy and damn hot
Canadian Foreign Affairs minister or Applebee's waitress? You decide.
I'll take AOC. I'll put up with a little crazy in my women if they look like that.
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Quoted from cottonm4:Well, how old are ya there, pops?
Well, from his handle I'd say 35, in which case he's not old enough to be reading this thread. Lol
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Happy belated bd tuner!
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Cannibas stores seem like every block now...what took the government so long? I wonder how many government reps smoke or eat gummies? Like finding the ship filled with gold and jewels in the goonies for the government
My wife and I were on a weekend trip in mid Michigan and I swear they were every half mile in some towns.
Was with my dad last weekend, he's 81, and he pointed out a deserted strip mall, one or 2 little businesses hanging on. Then he says "And look across the street" and points at the dispensary. "That place is packed from 10am til 10pm". And it was, barely anyplace to park.
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Quoted from jrpinball:Negatory!
Well, trying to hastily bury someone you just murdered can be a bit stressful!
Thats why I just dump them in the lake - no digging!
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Quoted from cottonm4:I try to not get too jaded the older I get, but it is hard not to do.
I was in the military in the 70s. When I got out, I came back home and proceeded to make a living. The military was history. I had a good time while I was in service, but I never left the states and I made no sacrifice while in the service etc. etc.
Life went on. A few years ago, with the US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, this "thank you for your service" started making the rounds. Every once in a while I need to state that I am a veteran. Now, whenever I say I am a Vet I get this "Thank you for your service".
I know everybody means well, but they might as well be thanking me for "shopping at K-Mart". The saying comes across as an afterthought, or something that is being said just to be said so the sayer can feel better about theirselves.
Regardless of what you did, swept floors or dropped bombs, you still sacrificed a couple years of your life.
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Quoted from wolverinetuner:I’m an American Coney Island guy, but I’ve never had Lafayette. There always seem to be a lot of people in that little place.
My family has had Christmas dinner (dad's side of family) at American Coney Island for close to 50 years now. My grandparents always loved it there. There are usually about 30 of us in the annual group photos now. We open our presents and everything there.
After my grandparents passed away, my stepmom thought we should class it up and go someplace nicer for Xmas, so we did that one year. A week later, all of us "kids" (we were probably in our 30s) met up at American for coney's, like always. That was the one and only time we tried anyplace "nicer".
The little girl on my dad's shoulders is my niece -she's also the blonde in the 2nd pic, now a flight attendant and closing in on 30 years old. Though the family is now spread from Michigan to Florida to Colorado to Hawaii, we still try like hell to coordinate our schedules and keep the tradition going, with surprising success. Four generations at one table is pretty cool.
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Yes, same as her dad -
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Loved those! Can't count how many i had as a kid!
Quoted from Grayman_EM:The one restaurant we spent most of our time at when I was small and I remember all the prizes we used to get. I just wish it was still around and after watching most of the "The Food that built America" episodes I feel cheated that I haven't seen any giving credit to Burger Chef and what they invented and started. It was the owners who ran it into the ground but the people who ate there loved it.
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Oh man, the Tomater Gator sticker, I used to have that and a bunch of the other Burger Chef stickers on the toy box my grandfather made for me. I think its still in my mom's garage.
I never would have remembered that.
Quoted from Grayman_EM:pinzrfun thought I would pass this on to you but on Ebay you could buy all 6 stickers the price I forget but just wanted to let you know.
Thank you!
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Back in my partying days, I was always looking forward to retirement so I could be the old guy sitting at the end of the bar getting quietly pickled all day long, flirting w the waitress.
Not so much anymore. Still looking forward to retirement, sure, but I'll find other things to occupy my time.
Quoted from tomdrum:Tomorrow I become eligible for social security. Getting old sucks.
Lotta people don't make it that far - silver lining -
Quoted from ShinyBall:You know you are old...
when it takes 4 fricking weeks to get over a pulled back muscle. Damn, I was just about to look into the dreaded chiropractor, and it went away. Last time I did that it took about 10 days, and that was about 10 years ago. My fault, my brain still says I'm 35...not 67, I'm NOT out of shape, but age does not care what you see in the mirror. You have to think about what you are going to do, and How you are going to do it, especially when it comes to those unusual physical situations that you don't work those muscles that often. I know better, but it's been so long since I screwed up..I forgot!!
my body punishes me when I do anything out of the ordinary too - once or twice a year I pick up a truckload of firewood, haul it to the backyard and stack it - a much different day than 8 hours in front of a computer....oooh, the pain, the pain.......
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Quoted from RTS:Something definitely strange was going on in 1974. The music was so goddamn awful, but still brings me back to simpler times.
Clap for the Wolfman
The Night Chicago Died
Billy Don't Be a Hero
Hooked on a Feeling (Blue Swede's ooga shaka rendition)
Spiders and Snakes
Dark Lady
Smoking in the Boy's Room
You're Having My Baby
The Streak
Seasons in the Sun... the list goes on
That's my childhood too, i was 10 in 1974, wouldn't change growing up in the 70s for anything.
My older stepbrothers introduced me to Aerosmith and KISS and Van Halen later in the decade.
Along w JAWS, Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit and the other great flicks, I have fond memories that will last me forever, and reminders all over my game room.
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Quoted from cottonm4:I would have liked to have seen Bryan Adams and The Guess Who, and BTO, for some Canadian rock and roll.
Saw BTO open for Van Halen back in the late 80s or 90s....pretty cool -
NOT FRAGILE - great album.
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Quoted from swampfire:Congrats, and long life to you! My son is trying to quit nicotine now (he vapes), and I know it’s a hard habit to kick.
When I was about 22, I worked for Chrysler in Detroit, a good 45 miles from home, mostly expressway, and got caught in the same traffic jam every day. One day I'm sitting there looking around at the other cars and see a few people smoking, and I though, yeah, I should start smoking so I have something to do while I'm sitting in this damn traffic! Smart huh? lol
Well, I got some Newport Lights and would puff one or 2 on the way home. I was a toolmaker apprentice in a stamping plant, smoking was allowed everywhere in 1986. But when I'd smoke at work, I'd have to find someplace to set it down, or the smoke would get in my eyes if I was doing something, it was kinda a pain in the ass. After a few weeks my throat started to hurt so I quit.
Quoted from AlexF:The last two nights my wife and I watched the Wheel of Fortune together. She's always liked it, suddenly I find I enjoy it too.
One of the things we look forward to most is seeing the grandkids.
My wife has suddenly been inspired to make one of these costume jewelry Christmas trees (pic for reference).
She's 49, I'm 52. Premature aging?
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lol...if it's premature aging, you're doing ok.......
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Quoted from cottonm4:He is not dead, but he is not in good shape.
Bruce Willis Diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia, His Wife Emma Reveals: 'Condition Has Progressed'
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bruce-willis-diagnosed-frontotemporal-dementia-193337210.html
Damn..........guy is probably worth half a billion dollars and he's gonna die not remembering his own name.
Just goes to show you, if you don't have your health, doesn't really matter what else you have.
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Quoted from cottonm4:35 years ago I was 35 when my dad died. I thought he was up there in years and consoled myself with, "He had full life. He did not get cheated".
My dad was 71 when he died. I thought he was ancient. He was the same age as Rossington and now 71 seems like they were still just kids. I'm 70 now; I don't feel ancient. Amazing how the thought process works because I would like to say, "I'm just 70.". Anything less than 80 and I will feel like I got a raw deal
I read someplace that "old age always stays comfortably in front of us..." Meaning, as you said, that the older we get, THAT age isn't old any more - it's people OLDER than you.
My mom is 80, and she talks about the "really old people" she sees at the doctors office or whatever - I'll laugh and joke w her, "Mom, you're friggin 80"...and she'll laugh too......i guess as long as you're not the oldest person on the planet, you can always feel younger that SOMEBODY.......
Quoted from RTS:You know you are old when you read other people's "you know you are old" references indicating they are substantially younger than you.
Right - maybe we need a "You Know You Are Old 40s to 50s" thread, "You Know You Are Old 50s to 60s" thread........
These young whippersnappers will never adhere to it though.
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Quoted from cottonm4:How many remember when your car's sound system consisted of one speaker in a hole in the dash?
AM Radio ?
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And the 2 on the back ledge behind the back seat - get yourself some whoppin' 6x9s for back there!
Quoted from hwyhed:How bout smacking the starter w a hammer..or popping the clutch to get it started
Me and my buddy were on the way home from a bar late one night in our little town of Flat Rock, Michigan.
We see some guys pushing a car in the other direction and realize it's some friends, so we spin around and hop out to see what's up. So they stop, winded as hell, telling us the battery died and they're just pushing it back home, still a good mile and a half away. My buddy says, "This thing is a stick shift, isnt it? Why don't you just kick start it?" Blank stares. So my buddy jumps in, tells them to get it moving, pops the clutch, car starts, and we laugh our asses off.
Quoted from swampfire:We’re here to see Rick Wakeman tonight. Gray and white hair abound. I literally see nobody under 50 here.
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Saw Hermans Hermits a few weeks ago, same thing, I was one of the younger ones there and I'm gonna be 59 soon - lol.
No warm up band, show started at 7:30pm and was done at 9pm, we were home at 10pm. He knows his audience.
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Young folks don't care if there is a paper trail for everything they do. Pay cash, no trail
My buddy's wife had a bowl on top of the microwave that they'd toss their credit card receipts in. We'd take turns picking up the tab at our weekly after-work bar stop. I always paid cash.
One day he comes into work and says "So Rachel was going through the receipts last night and asked Did you have fun last night? "Yep" "Who was there, just you and Don?" "Yep" "$110.00?" "Yep" And I thought Damn it, I should have paid cash like Don does lol
No evidence!
Quoted from RTS:Quite an elaborate stage and lighting.
One can practically smell the wafting marijuana filling the stadium in anticipation of the band walking out.
LOl...yeah, I bet they can strike that whole thing in about 30 minutes - not exactly KISS stage show.....
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I was surprised how many songs I knew - it was a good show, he's a good entertainer, great sense of humor.
Quoted from cottonm4:I am 70. I was in my teenage prime when Herman's Hermits were hot. And they were hot. Not like The Beatles or The Stones, but HH got a lot of airplay and was on all the teenage music shows, like Shindig. Lots of top 40 songs that you could sing along with. Kind of like The Hollies who gave birth to Graham Nash who went on to super group Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
I have wondered once in awhile what happened to Peter Noone. The one time I saw him was, maybe 30-35 years ago, and he was on the car show circuit; I can't remember why he was there; He did not sing, but he was facing all of in the portable bleachers. I kind of felt sorry for him for being reduced to the car show circuit. Nice to see he is still around making music.
My date was 66, she said had the hots for Peter Noone back in the day.
He kinda poked fun at their position in today's music scene - "So tomorrow, we'll be in Angola, Indiana...I can recall being a young up-and-coming band, talking with Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney and dreaming of when we'd all be able to play Angola, Indiana....."
Seriously, he was very appreciative of the audience and looked like he was still having fun after all these years. That goes for the band, too.
Quoted from cottonm4:Like those older women, do you? At 70, I am looking towards the younger women
lol....i thought it would be easier, but she runs circles around me.......
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Quoted from jrpinball:Check that. I just came across some old papers I was using for insurance purposes listing all of my AV equipment. Says the VCR was $1595!
That's about what I paid for my first video camera in 1986 - it was this exact one. You had to attach the viewfinder and plug it in.
Caught a lot of great memories on this thing though.
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Quoted from cottonm4:Jerry Springer has left us.
I have watched some of his shows for comic relief. And I always wondered what kind of money he paid to get people on his show so they could make
complete idiots of theirselves.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/entertainment/jerry-springer-cause-death/index.html
I doubt those people were compensated at all, I think they got a free hotel and possibly airfare, though I wouldn't bet money on the airfare.
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1 week later
Quoted from DanMarino:My wife watches Wheel of Fortune each evening. She loves that show. One day hopefully I can pick up a Wheel of Fortune pinball machine at a cheap price.
I had WoF for my PS2, it was fun to play at parties.
You know you're old when your work offers you 4 free VIP concert tickets, 12th row, VIP parking and all that, and you decline because you either haven't heard of half the bands, or the ones you DO know would have been cool to see 30 or 40 years ago....
i mean, Alice Cooper is what, 75 now? Wish I'd seen him in 1978...not really interested now........
Add in dinner, a couple beers at the show, it's still gonna run a couple hundred. And on a weekday? Not enough to pry me off the couch.
I just turned 59 - I know about 3 Santana songs (I did think about him though).
The girlfriend has seen Fall Out Boy a couple times already but we thought about them too.
I'd like to see Garbage but not interested at all in Noel Gallagher. Jefferson Starship and Night Ranger are opening for Bret Michaels, of those 3 I'd only want to see Night Ranger.
But I don't care about seeing ANY of them enough to actually go. Wish there was a decent metal or hard rock band. Couple years ago I got the same seats from work for KISS, took 3 friends and had a blast.
I'm gonna think on this over the weekend before I turn them down though.
1 week later
I'm sitting in bed w my coffee. Window open, the rain last night cooled things off nicely. Have to help the girlfriend get her house ready to sell - some drywall work, packing/cleaning/paint, moving stuff. I confess I'd rather stay here w my coffee.
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2 weeks later
Quoted from jrpinball:...when you finally decide that you no longer want to do your own oil changes.
i havent done an oil change in 20+ years and feel guilty every time I get charged $70 for it. I do get a free car wash though.
I have a rental house and have been pretty fortunate with tenants, they tend to stay a few years. The current one is moving out on Monday. I used to go there after work to clean, paint, whatever needs doing, but I took the week off to do it this time around.
Quoted from jrpinball:Well guys, I did it anyway (and didn't spill a drop!).[quoted image]
Now what do you do w the oil?
Quoted from Billc479:I don't know about where you are, but you can drop off your used oil at oil changing places here in Illinois, as long as the place is open and its in a closed container.
Yeah, i'm out.
I'm remembering having to clean out the oil pan, along with my hands, arms, etc, oil and rust in my face and eyes - back then I'd just pour it out behind the garage. I'm definitely not delivering it someplace.
Quoted from electricsquirrel:We used to dump it in the empty lot across the street. All the neighbors did.
Me too. That's where it came from anyways, right?
Quoted from Atari_Daze:On the farm we use it for chainsaw chain oil and to start burn piles.
But I'll vehemently deny that if cornered by environmentalists.
My buddy who lives in the sticks has been dumping it into a 55 gal drum and setting it on fire every now and then for about 30 years.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Damn...me and my buddy at teenage years, decided to dress up as ninjas so we ordered the ninja kits and climbed trees at night.
My buddy and I used to climb on the tops of churches, schools, almost anything. Never really did any mischief, just had fun doing something we weren't supposed to.
Few years later me and some friends smoked some weed and climbed onto his dad's garage to look at the stars. When we went to get down, I was gonna kinda roll over the side, hang and drop. Well I was closer to the edge than I thought and rolled right off. Landed flat on my back about 8 feet below. My buddy is half laughing, "You ok? I heard the breath leave your lungs" ..
I was ok. Good thing we are indestructible when we are young and stupid.
1 month later
Quoted from jrpinball:Yeah, unfortunately his life tragically ended way too soon, but what he accomplished in that short time is truly amazing. Had that tragedy never occurred, who knows? Would he today be considered the greatest song writer of all time? Life is strange.
It's funny, on days when I'm sore and tired sometimes i feel like, "my god, when is this gonna end, I've had enough already". Not in a depressed, I wanna blow my brains out way. Sometimes life doesn't seem so short, if that makes sense.
Then other times I think, I might be the greatest cellist the world has ever seen, or engineer, or whatever, there just isn't enough time to try everything - inside each one of us is a hidden talent that we will go to our graves never discovering.
Quoted from o-din:But Panasonic did make this.[quoted image]
And this - I had this exact color, I still have tapes that I taped on this, goofy shit singing along to the radio w girlfriends and stuff in my early teens. I'm gonna be 60 next year.
I set it next to the tv once during "The Six Million Dollar Man", and hit "record" every time he did something bionic and made that springy noise, then me and my friends would pick up big cardboard boxes and stuff in slow motion pretending they weighed tons......
Quoted from avspin:Yes, I still have them, not on cassette though. Actually I have all of my old cassettes somewhere. I have to look for them, but what am I going to play them on?
Put them on USB and relive those old memories today!
3 weeks later
Quoted from bob_e:When you have used one of these
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In a pinch those can be used as a roach clip too......i mean, that's what I've HEARD..........
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:You know your old when you saw Towering Inferno at the movies.
And The Poseidon Adventure.........
Quoted from jrpinball:I distinctly remember being at an Aunt's house in NJ, and my older brother wanted to go home to watch the first episode of Gilligan's Island.
We stayed too late, and so my brother asked if they could put it on their TV.
It came on, and when I heard "a three hour tour", I thought we would be there for another three hours!
I was 9 in 1973 when the first episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" aired. I'd been looking forward to it for weeks. We were on our way home from someplace and weren't going to make it in time, and I was freaking OUT. We were passing Detroit Metro Airport, and dad pulled in. Back then you could walk right up to the gates, and the terminals had little tv's that took quarters, like a pay phone. So me and my 3 brothers all huddled around this little tv while dad fed it a quarter every 10 min.
i need to call him - been a while.
1 week later
Quoted from o-din:After renting for several years, I bought my first place at a 10% adjustable rate in 1986 for $150k because that is the only loan I could get for a condo conversion. Sold it early 90s for $225k.
Hindsight says I should have kept it. It also had a two car garage and an extra one car garage and a nice deck with a view.
https://www.zillow.com/homes/318-Avenida-Santa-Barbara-.num.2,-San-Clemente,-CA-92672_rb/25670131_zpid/
Sometimes it's less painful not to look in that rear view mirror......
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Quoted from swampfire:Oh, and here’s my favorite: we’re out in public and someone’s kid has a tablet with the volume turned up. When I go talk to the parent, my wife gets mad at me for embarrassing her. It makes me feel like Michael Douglas in “Falling Down”: I’m the bad guy??
Out w the extended family for Sunday breakfast a couple weeks ago and the table next to us had the requisite little kid standing on his chair, parent's phone in hand, turned up to keep him entertained, because, you know, what other way is there to keep a kid occupied besides a phone in 20203?
Crayons to draw with? Talk to them? Don't be absurd!
Quoted from cottonm4:In the US it has morphed just another day to go shopping. Another day moved to a Monday or a Friday to allow for a 3-day weekend at the lake.
My work just announced that starting next year it will be a paid holiday for us. So I can look forward to 2 of those before I retire in 2026.
Quoted from cottonm4:I love being retired. Half the time I am sleeping in and the rest of the time i'm working on a pin project---or goofing off
I can't wait, Cotton! About 910 days, but who's counting! 
Quoted from o-din:Sadder than that and less in the news is we lost one of our landmarks last week. One of the giant WWII hangars down in Irvine. I remember when those were the only things that were there. Now I hear asbestos has filled the air.[quoted image][quoted image]
I work at Willow Run airport in Michigan, there are still several of the old WWII hangars standing here on the other side of the field.
"Willow Run Airport has a rich history, dating back to 1941 when Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh built the world's largest bomber facility at the airport. During World War II, almost 8,700 B-24 "Liberator" bombers were built at Willow Run."
20231114_093533 (resized).jpgWR (resized).PNGWillow Run (resized).PNGQuoted from cottonm4:Pinside is my Facetime, etc. I have nowhere else to place this:
We a had police situation happen in a small town a few miles from me. I won't bore you with the details other than the cop had his body cam rolling and was not aware of it. But this is the first time I have even seen anything like this in print.
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The guys is "taking a leak in the men's room".
This is editorial journalism in the U.S. in the 21st Century
Later.
I gotta go take a leak
Those body cams keep recording for 2 minutes after they're powered off - I dont remember where it happened, but a cop was fired when a random search of bodycam footage showed he had shut it off and then fondled a well endowed murder victim.
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Quoted from swampfire:If you remember stomping on this button in anger, and you remember what it’s for, you’re old.
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Guilty of both.....
Quoted from bob_e:years ago I watched a guy in a Slob (Saab) convertible dump his ash tray in a supermarket parking lot.
I picked up the butts and put then on his seat
When I see people get out of their cars and flick a butt, i put it under their windshield wiper.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Zima was the malt liquor beverage of my generation, after the MD.[quoted image]
I remember a couple summers in the late 80s or so fueled by Zimas. I remember thinking they didnt feel as heavy or something out in the sun on a boat etc, it was a nice change from beer for a while.
Quoted from Rizmo:Let me first say I am 36. I was at work yesterday and idk how Taylor Swift came up and her money. I said well she could go broke one day like M.C. Hammer. Then my coworker said, "Whats an M.C. Hammer".
He probably knows him as "Diddy" now.............
Quoted from RTS:It's funny how the date is ingrained to memory.
July 5, 1979 is my personal Armageddon. That day was lost to 15 hours of puking, dry heaves and head spins.
So what exactly did you DO on the 4th of July that year??
Quoted from o-din:When the highlight of the week is a hawk swoops down and starts chewing on the rodent you think's been messing with your car. And the rodent screams.
It wasn't this rodent.........
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from o-din:When some of these start looking like really good deals.
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Stopped at Burger King last night and got just a chicken sandwich, it was $6.00. Girlfriend says "I thought those were like $2.99".
Quoted from cottonm4:The $5.00 fill up is now $7.00 here. I love the pot pies.
I remember probably 20 years ago I ordered a bucket of KFC. It was that big bucket that was full to the top. They could barely get the lid on. A few months later I went back for another bucket. The chicken pieces were smaller and barely passed the halfway line of the bucket. Now long after that, the big buckets disappeared.
I remember stopping there years ago, probably 9pm just as they were closing, drive thru. Didn't have much $, and ordered just a chicken breast to take home. She hands me a full bucket and says "we're just gonna throw it out". Score!
Quoted from cottonm4:Score indeed !
I worked for a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Roast Beef fast food place in the 60s. You worked and got paid. You also were allowed one free meal during your shift. Like all food, roast beef sandwiches got old after awhile. The pizza guys down the street got tired of pizza and the chicken guys got tired of chicken. We traded with all of the other fast food places all the time.
My old roommate worked at Pizza Hut in the 80s. He brought home pizza all the time. Same thing, you think you'd never get tired of it...
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Quoted from swampfire:My favorite memory of the 70’s was the Bicentennial - I was 12, in 7th grade.
Ditto.
It's cool reminiscing about things with people your own age.
I'm in my last couple years in the workforce, got about 2 years left. I worked for my current employer for about 8 years til the recession in 2008 when they laid off half the company. We were all roughly the same age and used to stop at the corner bar once or twice a week after work, laugh, bitch, toss a few down.
I've been back about 5 years now, and for a while couldn't put my finger on what feels "different". It's the age/generation gap. The company has grown, and they've hired lots of young people, as they need to, of course. There are still a few old timers here, but there's been a changing of the guard. It's not a family anymore, we don't hang out, etc. Many of the employees are my daughters age (mid 30s) and younger, still having babies, buying houses, getting a foothold in life. Every morning is an hour of "my kid did this" stories, and while I can relate, they aren't relevant to my life now really. I get along with all of them because they ARE my kid's age, but it's just not the same.
1 month later
Quoted from cottonm4:That number is from the SS website that I linked.
https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-01897#:~:text=The%20maximum%20benefit%20depends%20on,maximum%20benefit%20would%20be%20%244%2C873.
Well if its correct I'm definitely punching out for good in 2 years - i thought it was like 1600.00
Quoted from cottonm4:High paid airline pilots will get the maximum amount. Other high earners, like doctors, will get max amount. If you have been working for wages, you don't have much hope for the max amount.
Yeah, I'm not in that first category.
My gf retired at 65 two years ago and is drawing from her 401 until she turns 70. I'll turn 62 a few weeks after that. I told her i want to retire then. I dont have shit in my 401 and told her I have no problem working til whenever i have to, but our clock is ticking. I'd like to spend what time we have left being together, not sitting at a desk while she sits at home alone. House and vehicles are paid off.
She is more than ok with that.
I do have a rental property that will supplement my retirement income.
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Damm. I think I had that exact same tux!
Quoted from cottonm4:I know I am old. I used to do most of the work on my cars. I just had to have a radiator replaced in my Saturn wagon. It is BURIED inside under the hood. The flat rate labor was 4 hours at $100.00 per hour.
I said screw it and paid the shop to do the R&R. Once upon a time, there is no way I would pay $400.00 to change a radiator. But jacks and jack stands are not my cup of tea at age 71.
I haven't changed my own oil in 25 years. I've been lucky to have several friends and relatives that are mechanics. My best friend has a heated barn with a full size commercial hoist that makes it super easy to do brake jobs or anything underneath the car that would be damn near impossible at my own house, and all it costs is a case of beer and lunch, plus we have a few laughs and listen to some heavy metal.
2 weeks later
Quoted from cottonm4:I read something a long time ago. Sort of one of those Confucius sayings. If you don't know who Confucius is/was then you are a young pup.
It goes like this.
1) A man is a young man when a woman can make him happy or sad.
2) A man is middle age when a woman can make him happy but not sad.
and
3) A man is an old man when a woman cannot make him happy and cannot make him sad.
Well I hope I never become #3 though at 59 I'm not sure I'm still middle aged.
Divorce was final last year and I smile every day when I get home and see my new girlfriend.
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