How Old Are You?

[The Wizard]

Well i think its time for another one of these.

[drice]

As y'all know from my quandry in October, I'm now 44, and bought a 44 to commemorate it.

But I still believe I'm still 30-something, so I tend to tell people that I am 30-14.

[Darrell]

I will be 54 next week. Youth is wasted on the young.

[SeekHer]

Old enough to know better; young enough to do it anyway.

From us old timers comes this variation:

Old enough to do it well and still young enough to do it again!

[FelixEstrella]

When I turned 44 this year, I invited all my co-workers for "44 Magnums all day" at the local range.

[First Shirt]

Old enough to know that Wilbur was a better pilot than Orville. (I tried to convince them to stick with bicycles, but they wouldn't listen.)

[esa5444]

I have only once seen a working vacuum tube or driven a car with a carburetor.

[First Shirt]

I have only once seen a working vacuum tube or driven a car with a carburetor.

Good G-d, I'll bet I have skivvies older than you are! I can remember Dad pulling tubes out of the back of the (B&W) TV and sending me to the drugstore to use the tube tester they had.

[The Quiet Man]

Yeah, I remember when only rich folks had lawnmowers with engines on them! I can't possibly count the number of lawns I mowed with a push lawnmower! I remember buying 101 octane gas for less than 75 cents a gallon...that's right, 101 octane LEADED gasoline (and every gas station you went to had it!). I remember when there were no such things as video games (of any sort) and pinball machines cost a dime for 5 balls. I remember when a student in a high school wouldn't even think of getting lippy with a teacher for fear of getting paddled in front of the class, getting sent to the principal, and the hell they would pay when they got home to their parents! Now, elementary school students tell their teachers how things are gonna be and just where they can get off...it's disgraceful.

I am 45 years old...not that old in the grand scheme of things, but the years have really kicked the shit out of me. Worse yet, this is not the America that I grew up in. I am sad that my grandchildren are never going to know the America that I did.

[First Shirt]

Yeah, I remember when only rich folks had lawnmowers with engines on them! I can't possibly count the number of lawns I mowed with a push lawnmower! I remember buying 101 octane gas for less than 75 cents a gallon...that's right, 101 octane LEADED gasoline (and every gas station you went to had it!). I remember when there were no such things as video games (of any sort) and pinball machines cost a dime for 5 balls. I remember when a student in a high school wouldn't even think of getting lippy with a teacher for fear of getting paddled in front of the class, getting sent to the principal, and the hell they would pay when they got home to their parents! Now, elementary school students tell their teachers how things are gonna be and just where they can get off...it's disgraceful.

I am 45 years old...not that old in the grand scheme of things, but the years have really kicked the shit out of me. Worse yet, this is not the America that I grew up in. I am sad that my grandchildren are never going to know the America that I did.

Yeah, I can remember cruising all night on three bucks worth of regular, in a 327-powered Impala. Or being ten years old, and my dad sending me to the store with fifty cents to get him a pack of cigarettes and having enough change left for a Coke and a candy bar.

I turned 53 this year, and I shudder to think what the next half-century is going to be like