You remember Hwy99 as the only way to get to California...

It's not?

You Know Your getting Old When:

You can remember:

When the hydroplane races were between the Slo Mos and the Such Crust boats.

When nobody released a steelhead, and they were ALL wild.

When Lucy and Desi couldn't be shown in the same bed.

When Gay meant happy.

You know your getting older when Viagra is your only means of motivation.

You know your old when....
*Pearl Jam was a band that played in Pioneer square and I actually laughed at them
*You remember the Lynnwood Roll a ways "Battle of the Bands"
*Reiter used to be a busy place almost 10 people there usually.
*Cops were older.
* Having long hair is still cool right?
* You intoroduced your best friend to to Mary Fisher, used to be married to Roger, and there still married
* When you were a kid, ya used to jam at Chris Cornells house, ask him about shootiing BB Guns.
* Your latest Band Photos still hang in the Band Aid Music stor, both of them, that was 10+ yrs ago.
*The internet satisfies your needs.
*You alaways back your vehicle in, just like Dad.
*Getting Leighed, must mean Hawaii is coming soon.
* Your new friends that moved here within the last 10 years think they are telling you zipper spots.
*Gorrila Gardens used to be a poular spot for original bands.
* The Riviera was the coolest bar that ever existed, or Rain Tree to some.
* You think Yella Eagle Claws are the current version of Ugly Sticks.
* You still swear on Mustad Hooks
*Spandex skirts still haunt your brain
* Cool Jeans are still Levis
*James Jeans, BNG's, Painter Pants, Star Jeans, Acid washed, Swabbies,Code Bleus,
are still part of your attire.
* Back in the old days It was called a DWI, now it's called a DUI
*Parkers used to be B.y.o.b
* I met Jimi Hendrixs Dad, and partied with him.

Enough for now,,,, I think I am getting old...

WW

Getting old is when you suffer from Dunlaps Disease, when your belly has dun lapped over your beltline. Or the Dr. asks you for a urine and stool sample, and you just leave him your underwear....

.... when the centerfold girl was born after you graduated.

Some very good ones here and I remember most of them.

Here's a few more for the real oldies. I remember these too!!!

> > REMEMBER?
> > Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite
fast
> > food when you were growing up?"
> > "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All
the
> > food was slow."
> > "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"
> > "It was a place called 'at home," I explained. "Grandma cooked every
day
> > and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining
> > room
> > table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to
sit
> > there until I did like it."
> > By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
> > suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how
I
> > had to have permission to leave the table.
> > But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood
if
> > I
> > figured his system could have handled it:
> >
> > Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf
> > course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later
> > years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was
> > good
> > only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way,
> > there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
> >
> > My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because
we
> > never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50
> > pounds,
> > and only had one speed, (slow).
> > We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my
> > grandparents
> > had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they
bought
> > a
> > piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue,
> > like
> > the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third
was
> > red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks
riding
> > across someone's lawn on a sunny day.. Some people had a lens taped to
the
> > front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
> >
> > I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When
I
> > bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off,
swung
> > down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still
> > the
> > best pizza I ever had.
> >
> > We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our
> > family
> > was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
> >
> > I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in
> > the
> > living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had
to
> > listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using
the
> > line.
> >
> > Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers
were
> > delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a
> > newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to
> > keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had
> > to
> > collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the
> > ones
> > who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite
> > customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
> >
> > Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
> > movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French
> > kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did
in
> > French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see
> > them.
> >
> > If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want
> > to
> > share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just
> > don't
> > blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to
> > be,
> > is it?
> >
> > MEMORIES from a friend:
> > My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
> > he
> > brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a
> > stopper
> > with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but Kati
had
> > no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or
> > something.
> > I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
> > "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am
> > old.
> >
> > How many do you remember?
> >
> > x Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> > x Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> > x Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> > x Real ice boxes.
> > x Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> > x Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> > x Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
> >
> > Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones
> > you
> > were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
> >
> > 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> > x 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > x 3. Candy cigarettes
> > x 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> > x 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > x 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > x 7. Party lines
> > x 8. Newsreels before the movie
> > x 9. P.F. Flyers
> > x 10. Butch wax
> > x 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933) One of our first
> > phone numbers was 340R
> > x 12. Peashooters
> > x 13. Howdy Doody
> > x 14. 45 RPM records and before that they were 78 rpm
> > x 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > x 16. Hi-fi's
> > x 17. Metal ice trays with lever and before that, real "ice boxes" that
> > you
> > put ice in to keep things cool (not cold)
> > x 18. Mimeograph paper
> > x 19. Blue flashbulb
> > x 20. Packards
> > x 21. Roller skate keys
> > x 22. Cork popguns
> > x 23. Drive-ins
> > x 24. Studebakers
> > x 25. Wash tub wringers
> >
> > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
> > If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
> > Don't forget to pass this along!!
> > Especially to all your really OLD

fp, Older than dirt is when you repeat yourself, over and over and over!

Hey wait a minute.... I remember ALL that stuff.

Ha Auntie, I knew you would know all that stuff.

BTW. All better now. Man, when I looked after cut and paste it put on a bunch didn't it?

fp

I have more but it's pretty nasty. Can I put nasty things on here?

fp

We were the first ones in the neighborhood to get a Pong set for our TV. Anyone remember those??

Also, our TV was also the radio, record player, and album storage cabinet. It wasn't a TV, it was the console. My little sister was the remote control. She had to change between the two channels we had.

We lived in a very small town. Christmas shopping consisted of dog-earing the pages of the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs. I remember the grocery checkers keying in the prices by hand, no scanners. When I was 10 I got a new 5-speed bike with a cheater slick rear tire, a bannana seat, and the gears were shifted by a stick shift on the nut buster bar. I remember when car companies only had one style of car. Remember push button trannies?? My aunt's house had a corner booth in the kitchen to sit in like at the soda shop. Remember soda shops? We called them Soda Fountains. The cool guys had spinner hub caps on their cars. Curb feelers? Our sidewalks were still made of wood, there is STILL a law on the books that makes it illegal to kick the heads off of snakes that stick their head up through the sidewalk planks so that the bodies don't fall back down and stink the place up. I remember movies had cartoons first, Woody Woodpecker was the man then. I remember when we got an electric motor with a dial to move the TV antennae. Uptown for sure. We didn't watch the ball game, we listened to it. We had a self propelled mower-you had to propel it yourself. Remember when the McDonalds sign said "Over 1 million sold", or even when they kept track?? Paper drinking straws. Cars with no seatbelts and steel dashboards. All of our dressy clothes were made by mom. Man, that red velvet vest was my favorite, you know, the one with the belt! When I was in high school, the first chordless phones had a metal antennae you had to pull out first. The Straight 8? or Slant 6? A letter across the county took several weeks. To dial long distance you had to talk to an operator, and you usually knew her by her first name. Switchboards-real ones with chords that had to be plugged in by hand. Coolest store in town was Western Auto. Malts. Spaceburgers. Bowling alleys that employed guys called "pin setters". Soda Jerks.

Man, the good old days. I miss them. My kids laugh when we talk about the Titanic being found and such a big deal. They never new it was lost.

One word - bifocals.

My brain says that I am young… My wife says I act like a kid… but…

A co-worker that seems as a peer… finally tells me his age and I realize that I am old enough to be his father… ouch…

I have to stop myself from telling my Boy Scout's something that I did when I was thier age ... used to do this or that… because it is illegal now…

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Hey Huntar… another spin on your centerfold item… a friend of mine (a couple of years older than myself) and her husband that grew up and still live in Renton… the husband brought home the Playboy issue a little while back that had the centerfold girl from Renton… she was the daughter of the wife's high school best friend….

Another word: Depends!

Dude, the same punch line got me kicked off the site last year.....

....different joke though!!

4-salt,
You never come across as being that old

It must be real nice though when your wearing neoprenes...

:p

When you buy slip on shoes cuz ya can't bend over that far to tie em any more. I have a couple pair & really like em.
When fishing poles were made out of bamboo & the line was string or wire.
You were really rich if you had a motor on yer boat.

...my breathables actually!

With them bad boys on I can stand in on spot for 12 hours straight at Blue Creek, even after a hearty meal of bran muffins and prune juice!

4Salt...Hilarious! LOL
What kind of car do you drive?
I want to make sure I Never park next to you at a hole 'cause when you peel those clothes off my rig may need a new paint job!

Auntym: The reason our frienda keep repeating things over and over and over is cuz, we can't hear a damn thing!