You know you're an old fart if - - -

......... when you have joint replacements that are old enough to vote.

........ when you remember the time that you could take a semi-automatic pistol to "Show and Tell" and not have people freak out.

......... when you remember buying white sidewall tires.

 

I still roll up the bottoms of my blue jeans into cuffs.

 

Yup, back when city life and country life were alternate lifestyles, children and mockingbirds were gay, and Police wouldn't throw down on a kid with a bb gun.

 

Gay Mockingbirds? Where was that? Hollywood? Children weren't gay. That was before adults confused them about sex. We still love our cops here... almost no blue voters at all.

 

I was noting to another OF that while I have lost the ability to do somethings, or to do them well; I have gained a new talent.. I can now fall asleep sitting on the toilet.

 

Gay as in happy and joyous before the word was co opted and perverted along with the rainbow. I'm glad you live where reason still prevails.

 

OH! For the GOOD OLD DAYS!

 

My first job was gas station attendant and the most frequent order was “Put in a dollar’s worth.” 25 cents per gallon, and I washed the windshield.

 

They used to say you needed to urinate after sex, by that criteria (and no other) I could have sex 12 times a day.

 

Ahh - I love the smell of purple ink before test time!

 

It was a mess. After using a mimeograph just to reproduce a test for a single class, your hands would be stained with ink that took days to wear off, your clothes might be ruined, and the mess on the floor, the table, etc would be considerable.

 

I just remember that if the teacher wasn't in the room, and the smell of purple was coming down the hallway, it might be pop quiz time for me!

 

I always kind of liked the mimeograph ink smell.

 

Me too. It may be why purple is my favorite color. I associate it with a good memory.

 

You're an old fart if your brand new car came with a bumper jack...

 

now I am old and cracking up thanks !!

 

Star Spangled Banner before "Snow: The TV Show," came on the air.

 

as Christmas is coming up, you're an old fart if most of your toys as a child were made of wood or metal

 

Or painted with lead paint. My crib was painted with lead paint too... only waterproof paint back then.

 

Almost everything in my very early childhood years in the 1940s had lead paint. Must be the reason for my weirdness, that’s my excuse anyway.

 

I remember bias ply tires, constant flats and an expected life of about 12,000 miles.

 

I wonder why purple. Was it a really dark purple? Did it smell like glue?

 

So I am guessing these machines were replaced by photocopiers.

 

Yes.