:)Signs You Might be an OLD Fogey:
1. You get all bent outta shape because a building has gone up in 2 days w/o you noticing until it's done. You drive by, do a classic retake and wonder how the heck you missed that?!!
2. It makes you sad when you realize certain stores have closed down and replaced with another Thai restaurant!
3. You cannot make out any lyrics in a rap song except for the nasty epithets.
4. You miss Johnny Carson. (Even the fact you remember Johnny Carson!)
5. Your teenage children point out how "square" you are all the time.
6. The first TV your family owned was either a black and white version OR you had to get up and physically change the channel.
7. Gas used to .99 a gallon and darn it, you want that price back now!
8. You find yourself muttering ,"Darn teenage drivers!"
9. You mention how great "some celebrity" is looking to your spouse and then ya realize said celebrity is your age or younger! (Botox is a MIRACLE for some folks.)
10. You miss the days when David Letterman was cutting edge humor.
11. The names of new bands make you wonder what kind of nutjobs are in the music biz nowadays.
12. You use phrases like nowadays! Snort.
13. Your MySpace page never gets any inappropriate comments. :(
14. Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and Xuqa are completely unrecognizable names.
15. You have no clue what a social utility is. (Speaking as a parent of teen boys you might want to check your child's computer for social utilities...)
16. "Roots" was an original and thought-provoking mini-series the first time you watched it.
17. You can recall when Farrah Fawcett looked GOOD and/or you owned one of her famous posters.
18. Charlie's Angels was a TV show and NOT a movie.
19. Your ever-so-kind 16yo hears one of your favorite songs and lets you know he thinks "The remix of said song is way better!" (Took me awhile to comprehend what a "remix" was. I consider a remix a terrible thing that happens to great music!)
20. You are completely unaware that Painkiller Jane was a TV show on Sci Fi. Worse, you never knew there was a Sci Fi channel!
21. Your kids cannot believe you used to live without a home computer, a cell phone, an answering machine and you never felt deprived.
22. You owned a Walkman cassette player and thought you were so Sylin'!
23. You still own any cassette tapes or vinyl albums or an 8 track player!
24. Walking everywhere when you were 13 was not a hardship.
25. The first computer you owned was a clunky Apple that did not have a color screen.
26. You walk into the kitchen and immediately forget why you went in there.
27. Algebra makes no sense, has never made any sense and will never make any sense!
28. You say, "Huh?" trying to comprehend what your teen just said to insult you.
29. Bouffant hairdos are in, again. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
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Oh geez, just kill me now. I identify with at least 7 of those on your list. I have to face it.
Oldus farticus is just over the horizon!
Loved it! (ok really I hated it)
;-)
This one's my favorite: "You cannot make out any lyrics in a rap song except for the nasty epithets." Thank God there's a such thing as an "urban" dictionary...it's how I keep current, peeps!
My pastor is about the same age as me and my hubby (40ish). He is always saying something that takes me back. The last one was something like this: "Remember back in the day when you would go to Skateland with all your friends....."
I can identify with 3, 4, 6 (b&w and only 3 channels to choose from!), 7 (although when I started driving it was 67 cents a gallon), 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 (I hate remixes - NOBODY does it better than Led Zeppelin or Johnny Cash or Meatloaf or Janis Joplin), 20 (although I do know about the SciFi Channel. They used to rerun Dark Shadows - remember THAT one?), 21 (my kids don't have that awareness yet but they will), 23 (no 8-track, but yes to the others), 24 (or biking), 25, 26, 29 (around here, they never went out).
As to the following:
2. I would be THRILLED if one of our many stupid Dollar stores closed down and made way for a Thai restaurant, since our nearest one is 3 hours away.
11. I kind of like some of them - Panic at the Disco and Toad the Wet Sprocket amuse me.
13 and 14. I don't have MySpace or any of the others because I'm suspicious of them. Which probably makes me even more of a geezer candidate.
22. Didn't get one until after they weren't cool anymore.
27. (very quietly - I always liked algebra, but I had an EXCELLENT teacher.)
28. I'm sure the day is coming. The 4-year-old already has the eye-rolling down.
"Your kids cannot believe you used to live without a home computer, a cell phone, an answering machine and you never felt deprived."
I might not have felt deprived then, but those, caller ID and the DVR are things that I can't imagine how I ever lived without them now that I do have them.
Both, on the tv.. B&W AND no remote, lol. First computer was a Commodore. Does that age me even worse?
Well, you know how to make someone feel OLD! I reckonize all of them.
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