You know you're getting old when....

[Alex Adams]

Tell him you used to get a wicked hangover from Ripple and see the blank stare!

[RogerDat]

Originally Posted by Alex Adams

Tell him you used to get a wicked hangover from Ripple and see the blank stare!

But can you believe Boone's Farm is still around!?!

[Alex Adams]

Originally Posted by RogerDat

But can you believe Boone's Farm is still around!?!

That's not what freaks me out, it's the fact that it actually has some cachet now!

[John in Santa Cruz]

you know you are old when your son buys a nicer car than what you have been driving for years. (my 29 yr old PhD in Geology just bought a 2006 BMW 530xi, i'm still driving a ratty looking 1990 Mercedes 260E).

[John in Santa Cruz]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

My son in law is 35. One day we were kidding around and the line from the blues brothers came up “That Night Train is mean wine”. My son in law says where did that come from. I said night train was a blues song in the early 50s. He did not know that and was amazed when I bumped up the recording from 1951. He said
How did you know that. I just smiled and said I know lots of stuff, you just have to ask me. Made us better friends and better communicators.
Iowa Dave

'Serve Very Cold'

[Civilguy]

Night Train

Oscar Peterson - piano
Ray Brown - double bass
Ed Thigpen - drums

Best served hot...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvc5tSqak2Q

[John in Santa Cruz]

ahhhh, now THAT is Jazz!

We had the pleasure of seeing Ray Brown almost annually for about 10 years at our local jazz club with his various Ray Brown Trios, most notably with Gene Harris and Jeff Hamilton, in the 80s/90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJDZk9JHx0

Saw Oscar Peterson once or twice in that same club, too, but by the late 80s, he was having health problems, and just not up to the same level as he had been in the 60s.

[Civilguy]

With a nod to ZachO's recent under-sink adventures in his Bigfoot, you know you're getting old when everyone's using PEX plumbing with crimp fittings and you're still trying to use up all of the copper pipe and fittings you have stashed away in the basement.

[Alf S.]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

My son in law is 35. One day we were kidding around and the line from the blues brothers came up “That Night Train is mean wine”. My son in law says where did that come from. I said night train was a blues song in the early 50s. He did not know that and was amazed when I bumped up the recording from 1951. He said
How did you know that. I just smiled and said I know lots of stuff, you just have to ask me. Made us better friends and better communicators.
Iowa Dave

Hi: Iowa Dave... You know you're getting old when "You wish you knew then... what you know NOW"!!!
Alf S. North shore of Lake Erie

[Tom McRae]

When they are building a new high school to replace the new high school you attended.

[CarlD]

You don't know what day of the week it is because your pill dispenser is empty.

[mm2670]

Weren't born when you started....

[Dan-NS27]

Originally Posted by mm2670

Weren't born when you started....

Kinda how I felt by the time I retired from the military.

[G_Hill]

1 - You know you're getting old when you make new friends every day, only they are people you've known for decades.
2 - you preface every story you tell with "I probably already told you this before but" ......

[Borden]

You may be getting to mid life when;

Your first computer had to be soldered together.

Computer storage was not an option untill a new article in popular mechanics on how to connect a reel to reel up as Storage.

You hooked up a new state of the art cassette player and your kid thought that was Kool.

Now you did not have to enter an os and the your program every time you started it. Just load the tape.

You remember when you needed a number from the military or a college to go on line.

[Bob Durrstein]

You QUIT reading the Obituaries - Because they are about people younger than you!

[RogerDat]

If you can recall typing in a file name, hitting enter and waiting while the cassette tape ran all the way to the end before seeing a message on the screen "file not found" and only then did you spot the typo in the file name you entered.

Everyone looks too young to drive or babysit including your doctors.

You hit the beach in your best speedo and looking down on all sides still can't see what color it is.

You buy a t-shirt that informs people that a life sentence is not the deterrence they need it to be to deal with them. Hey it works so don't knock it.

You reach into your tool box and realize almost every tool in there is at least old enough to vote or buy booze with some "old friends" in the tool box being old enough to run for president.

You start worrying that if you die before your spouse she will sell all your toys for what you said you paid for them not what they actually cost.

You get in the elevator at the doctors office building and realize the tune playing is a song you used to party to.

[CarlD]

When your RISC processor was Octal, consisted of discrete thru hole components, and you programmed it by setting switches for the address and data then clocked the flip flops one address at a time to load your boot strap loader.

[RogerDat]

Originally Posted by CarlD

When your RISC processor was Octal, consisted of discrete thru hole components, and you programmed it by setting switches for the address and data then clocked the flip flops one address at a time to load your boot strap loader.

You win. So tell me what did folks walk on before dirt was invented?

[David Tilston]

Originally Posted by RogerDat

You win. So tell me what did folks walk on before dirt was invented?

Ouch!