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When I looked at the prices of 69 at Camero SS that was $3000 when I was 16, but they are now $30,000.

I am an Insurance agent, and it hit me when I started quoting people that were born when I graduated high school.

When I look in the mirror, and my hairline is not what I used to be.

When I got my first real job selling computers they were 386's, and a 256mb hard drive was huge.

When I started driving gas was $.89 a gallon.

Baseball players weren't all juiced up, and the good golf players were a little chubby.

People held doors open for other people, and said please and thank you.

Our telepone when I was a kid was a party line.

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That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/imag...hard_drive.jpg

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and I was just going to mention the 5.25 floppy disk with no hard drive:r

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:r:r:r I remember when we got an IBM PC with an 8088 processor in the engineering department I was working in when they came out.

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When popcorn called "JIFFY POP" had to be made on the stove no microwaves:fl

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:r:r:r I used to repair punch card readers.

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Your favorite TV program is Antiques Roadshow.

You go to the workshop to get a tool and have to return to figure out what tool you were going to get.

You were married before the new employees at work were born.

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You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.

You sing along with the elevator music.


"Getting a little action" means you don't need to take a laxative.

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Why do I suddenly have the urge to eat an Everlasting Gobstoppper?:D

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That is pretty cool. :r

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My first part time job was working at a small independent gas station. We would take the tire off the rim, and patch the tube or inside of the tubeless tire for $2. A gallon of gas was normally 32 cents. During a "gas war" we had gas for 23 cents a gallon.

That's not a typo.

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Your back goes out more than you do.

When you don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along.

Your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.
Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service. I've had this ability since dislocating my ankle 22 years ago. :fl

and for Scott (TripleF) : You consider coffee one of the most important things in life.

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I must be old because that was great popcorn!

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Im only 20 and cant imagine bein this old :D but Im on my way




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Now playing: Blake Shelton - The Last Country Song
via FoxyTunes

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....when you:

a) Discover you have to take your glasses off to see details up close.

b) Grey hairs.

ENJOY LIFE IN YOUR 20'S! IT'S OVER FASTER THAN YOU THINK! :eek:

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Very similar to your vaporators in most respects...:r
http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/stev...3B0/c3po_2.jpg

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:r:r I had this dream I heard "I am your father" from some tall dark scary guy with a breathing problem,

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lol, this is quickly becoming one of my favorite threads. I guess I have something to look forward to in my older years :r :r

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You know whose phone number this is.......

867-5309

And don't say you never dailed it!

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What's worse is when they're not on your head...

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You can't read that number, you MUST sing it...

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I've been following this thread and I don't think we can count grey hairs. I started getting those (well they look white to me really) in highschool.

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when the phrase :getting old ain't for sissies" takes on new meaning

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I heard a rumor that it happened to a girl when she was only 27. Not that I would know anything about that:ss

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lol, thanks for the advice. I think my live is over already lol ie buying a house and getting married, etc

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you know you're getting older when you run as fast as you can and some 17 year old is jogging next to you having a conversation with you.

.. when you walk around a week after soccer practice with every joint in your body creaks,cracks,pops.

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I saw a girl working the register at a store and thought "She looks familiar, I wonder if I know her mother/grandmother."
I still have a working Atari 800 computer that I even know how to program, and I have a '70s TV with the rotary knob tuner to hook it up to and hundreds of games and other programs for it. There is even software on the web for using it as a browser. Moonbuggy, Defender, Joust, Zaxxon, Pac-Man, Qix, Asteroids, Centipede, etc., etc....