Feelin' old

[jnyork]

I guess it finally had to happen. Saw my first advertisement for a "vintage AR-15" today, on another board. Kinda gave me that "just swallowed a big rock" feeling like the first time a waitress asked me if I wanted the senior citizens menu!
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[COSteve]

I guess it finally had to happen. Saw my first advertisement for a "vintage AR-15" today, on another board. Kinda gave me that "just swallowed a big rock" feeling like the first time a waitress asked me if I wanted the senior citizens menu!

If she asked you if you wanted one rather than just giving you one, then you aren't old enough yet to worry.

My wife and I felt old when we visited a museum recently that had a some common household 'antiques' displayed. We both kept pointing out items and saying, "Hey, we had one of those at home when I was a kid!" Now that makes you feel old.

[Modoc ED]

It won't be too much longer before the BATF&E will be classifying me as a "Curio and Relic"!!

[mescalero1]

You want a humbling experience?
Try cutting wood with your 83 year old uncle, and he can keep up with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Old Savage]

Hey, lighten up on the senior citizen menu crack.

[awp101]

I've had guys at work ask me about phone numbers or passwords and my standard answer is BR549. At least it used to be until I got tired of explaining the question marks away...

[3leggedturtle]

I've had guys at work ask me about phone numbers or passwords and my standard answer is BR549.

Yeah you gotta love Juniors car lot, wish I had a few of them cars now, not to mention the salesladies he had

[bogus bill]

I felt old years ago when my daughter asked me if we had color tv when I was a kid. I had to tell her we didnt even have black & white tv when I was a kid.

[jnyork]

Hey, lighten up on the senior citizen menu crack.

Hey, I was only 51 at the time!!

[shdwlkr]

You know you are getting old when your arthritis stops you from doing stuff and your arthritis tells when the weather is going to change.
You know your old when the pills you take make you full and you don't need to eat your meal.
You know your are getting old when you can't remember what you did five minutes ago or why you did.
You know you are old when you see a pretty girl and wonder why all the young men druel all over her and will do anything she asks
You know you are old when you have to ask for a younger person to do a task you used to do yourself.

[Hobie]

I guess it finally had to happen. Saw my first advertisement for a "vintage AR-15" today, on another board. Kinda gave me that "just swallowed a big rock" feeling like the first time a waitress asked me if I wanted the senior citizens menu!

If she asked you if you wanted one rather than just giving you one, then you aren't old enough yet to worry.

My wife and I felt old when we visited a museum recently that had a some common household 'antiques' displayed. We both kept pointing out items and saying, "Hey, we had one of those at home when I was a kid!" Now that makes you feel old.

My wife and I do that all the time. You don't really feel old until some REALLY old folks who happen to be in there with you nod and say, as if you SHOULD know, "weren't those great times?" I also felt old when a teenager asked me how it was when there weren't any cars and we had to ride around in "those". "Those" was a Conestoga wagon!

[awp101]

I also felt old when a teenager asked me how it was when there weren't any cars and we had to ride around in "those". "Those" was a Conestoga wagon!

Soooooo, how WAS it riding around in "those"?

[Doc Hudson]

Feeling old is what happens when you stand up and your knees sound like a bowl of Rice Crispies, i.e. they Snap, Crackle and Pop









Of course if you remember who Snap, Crackle and Pop were, you really are old.

[JReed]

Feeling old is what happens when you stand up and your knees sound like a bowl of Rice Crispies, i.e. they Snap, Crackle and Pop









Of course if you remember who Snap, Crackle and Pop were, you really are old.

Hey I resemble that remark. I just say it ain't the years its the mileage.

[Buck Elliott]

It won't be too much longer before the BATF&E will be classifying me as a "Curio and Relic"!!

That don't sound too bad.

Maybe we can buy, sell & trade guns without a license...

[Griff]

Kitchen appliances as antiques... heck I still have use several! And, yep, I remember my folks buyin' their first TV... and black & white? No, it was a few shades of green! And, my wife & used it for several years! Then the folks gave us their old Sylvania color TV, wow, what an improvement! And to think that I get 210 channels on my satellite and watch a 19" LCD HDTV in my truck!

Go COWBOYS!

[Otto]

My wife and I felt old when we visited a museum recently that had a some common household 'antiques' displayed. We both kept pointing out items and saying, "Hey, we had one of those at home when I was a kid!" Now that makes you feel old.

I'm only 41, but I do that all the time at antique malls.

Kitchen appliances as antiques... heck I still have use several! And, yep, I remember my folks buyin' their first TV... and black & white? No, it was a few shades of green! And, my wife & used it for several years! Then the folks gave us their old Sylvania color TV, wow, what an improvement! And to think that I get 210 channels on my satellite and watch a 19" LCD HDTV in my truck!

I get a kick out of telling the younger people in the unit (early to mid twenties) what it was like growing up in rural Ohio in the seventies, with outhouses, party-line telephones, one fuzzy local channel on the b&w tv (we spent most of our time outside anyway).They look at me like I'm from another planet. Makes no sense, since there are plenty of Amish in this area, so the concept shouldn't be that foreign to them.

[fatoldfool]

Getting old is forgetting to take your arthritis pills one day and you can't walk the next day till 3 hours after you take that pill......and if you have done any or all the following, you are old;
went and got in the horses and milk cows before breakfast.
fed the hogs after supper, including the water the supper dishes were washed in.
plowed corn all day with horses.
finished milking after dark.
sawed firewood with a cross-cut saw.
Used a Clinton D-4 chainsaw.
cut pulpwood or firewood with a gasoline bow-saw.
pumped the grindstone for your father/grandfather/uncle to sharpen his axe.
patched inner tubes for a 6.00x16 knobby tire
carried a .22 about everywhere you went when you were 10 yrs old.
owned a wooden rowboat w/oars as the only propulsion
actually used an outhouse on a regular basis with a Sears & Roebuck, Montgomery Ward or Aldens catalog as the only paper (or a box of corncobs)

[LeverBob]

I must be one sick hombre, 'cause I like it!

I get away with more murder now than I ever did. The older I get, the more antics I'm going to plan. 'Youngins haven't a clue, 'old is better. I do believe I'm real glad I took care of myself when I was younger, don't have the creeky knees or a bad back. Kenpo helped me out there. You pards ought to just get up on your high horse & decide you're going to be the biggest troublemaker that you can be. It's all attitude IMHO. So you're sore, get up anyway & make a dent in this old world.

Best to you all...

LB

[Sixgun]

I'm a firm believer in "counting your blessings". Although my first new handgun was an old model Ruger---before they were known as old models. (1972), just take a look at Terry Murbach---he remembers coming over on the "Mayflower".

When Griff started trucking, paved roads were not invented yet -------------Sixgun

[Doc Hudson]

Hey I resemble that remark. I just say it ain't the years its the mileage.

heck, I'll go you one further than that.

It ain't the number of times you've been rode hard and put away wet. it is the number of times you were rode hard and not put away at all!!

Now that is what maks you feel old!

[Doc Hudson]

I must be one sick hombre, 'cause I like it!

I get away with more murder now than I ever did. The older I get, the more antics I'm going to plan. 'Youngins haven't a clue, 'old is better. I do believe I'm real glad I took care of myself when I was younger, don't have the creeky knees or a bad back. Kenpo helped me out there. You pards ought to just get up on your high horse & decide you're going to be the biggest troublemaker that you can be. It's all attitude IMHO. So you're sore, get up anyway & make a dent in this old world.

Best to you all...

LB

In other words you are supporting my long held contention:

You can get away with more BS if people think you are a little crazy.

[Doc Hudson]

just take a look at Terry Murbach---he remembers coming over on the "Mayflower".

When Griff started trucking, paved roads were not invented yet -------------Sixgun

Terry Murbach did not arrive on the Mayflower!

he stowed away on Leif Erricsson's ship long before that! i think he was the one who stirred up the Indians to give the English Pilgrims trouble.

And corduroy roads are paved, sort of. It is just paved with logs rather than asphalt! Them things sure wer rough weren't they Griff

[Griff]

I'm a firm believer in "counting your blessings". Although my first new handgun was an old model Ruger---before they were known as old models. (1972), just take a look at Terry Murbach---he remembers coming over on the "Mayflower".
When Griff started trucking, paved roads were not invented yet -------------Sixgun

And when Sixgun started collecting, the Pennsylvania rifle was a new-fangled idea!

[LeverBob]

In other words you are supporting my long held contention:


Quote:
You can get away with more BS if people think you are a little crazy.

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Exactly Right

I do believe that is one of life's truths. Gives you a lot more leaway pard. It's a plus when people simply disregard you, because you're an old coot!

LB

[Ray Newman]

A few weeks ago, several shooters at the range talked about what they 1st learned to drive. When one asked me: I said "Percherons and Belgians".

Received the "Huh" look.

Had to explain that both grandfathers were dairy farmers and had teams. I wasn't old enough to reach the pedals on the tractors, but I was old enough to drive the teams while the wagon was loaded.

I asked them if they ever saw or put hay in loose and worked a horse drawn mower and dump rake. They had no idea what I was talking about.

When I was lad, Billy Cramer had a slick buckboard and a team of matched grays hitched to it. Then there was old Hankey Shuman, who walked to town and really didn't like riding in car or truck. He carried his supplies back in a gunny sack or two gunny sacks tied to the ends of a pole. He had oil lamps in his farm house and a pump in the kitchen to draw water. No radio -- not even a battery operated radio -- or any 'lectric whatsoever. Ol' Hankey looked older than dirt and tougher than railroad spikes....

[JohndeFresno]

My wife and I felt old when we visited a museum recently that had a some common household 'antiques' displayed. We both kept pointing out items and saying, "Hey, we had one of those at home when I was a kid!" Now that makes you feel old.

How about seeing more than one item in an antique store that were wedding gifts?

[fatoldfool]

I can remember one family driving a team and wagon to town in the late 40's & early 50's. And L. Kincaid rode a horse into town on Saturdays to bring two milk cans in burlap sacks riding across the horses shoulders. W. Shelton had a yellow model A roadster and he would haul a couple sacks of pig and/or chicken feed in the rumble seat.

[Sixgun]

And when Sixgun started collecting, the Pennsylvania rifle was a new-fangled idea!

Ha! Ya like that Griff?

Yea, It ain't easy being old dudes like us, but.................it sure beats the alternative -----------------Sixgun

[shdwlkr]

Reading all this reminded me when my parents got our first tv in the late 50's it was a floor model with a 9 inch circular screen and all the stations went of the air at around midnight or so.
I can remember milking the cows by hand when the power went out
I can even remember putting hay in the barn loose stacked as the owner didn't own one of those bailer contraptions.
I can remember picking up potatoes by hand and putting them in burlap bags to be picked up and put on the truck by others and we kids even got out of school to do it and got paid besides
I can remember when you didn't back talk any adult
I can remember when folks didn't have to lock their doors or cars
I can remember when if it snowed real hard and there were drifts it might be a week before you got plowed out and then you might have a really big wall of packed snow at the end of your driveway to shovel out as there were no snow blowers
I can even remember one neighbor who headed with wood got his hot water from the little tank on the side of his wood stove
I can remember outhouses too very drafty in the winter.

[donw]

good grief...

i remember seeing real u.s. cavalry troopers at ft riley ks in the late 40's...
there was NO TV when i was a kid...
i graduate HS in 1960...
i trained with an M1 Garand and M1 carbine when in the army...carried the M1 carbine to thailand to phase to VN...the m60 had just been issued to replace the BAR and the M16 was no where in sight ...i was issued an M14 later ...the old OD uniforms were still in issue...i was issued brown combat boots...we wore side buckle combat boots, too...

my first car was a '54 chev...(it was 8 years old then)

geeeeeeeeeee...don't need to go on...

[awp101]

i remember seeing real u.s. cavalry troopers at ft riley ks in the late 40's...

1840s or 1940s?

[NonPCnraRN]

You know you are old when you remember the prime time tv shows all those actors who now hawk reverse mortgages starred in. Or when half your medication directions say take on an empty stomach and the other half say take with food. Or the fact that your knees don't sound like Rice Crispies until someone helps you up.

[Larsen E. Whipsnade]

"I also felt old when a teenager asked me how it was when there weren't any cars and we had to ride around in "those". "Those" was a Conestoga wagon!"


I can top that one. Shortly after I retired from the police dept., I was out in my garage doing some work. It was a warm day so I left the overhead door up. For some reason, the neighborhood kids always seemed to congregate around me whenever they saw me, and soon I had a half dozen kids in my garage between 6-8 years old. Soon they were peppering me with a thousand questions, like kids that age do. Among others where these gems:

"Are you a cop?"
Not anymore, I used to be but I'm retired now.

"Did you ever shoot anyone?"
No.

"Did anyone ever shoot at you?"
Well, yeah, but that was a long time ago, when I was in the army.

"Oh, you were in the army? Did you know George Washington?"

[Doc Hudson]

i remember seeing real u.s. cavalry troopers at ft riley ks in the late 40's...

1840s or 1940s?

Must have been the 1840's if it was "late '40's."

The US Cavalry, other than ceremonial units which still exist, gave up their horses in 1943.

[Griff]

And when Sixgun started collecting, the Pennsylvania rifle was a new-fangled idea!

Ha! Ya like that Griff?
Yea, It ain't easy being old dudes like us, but.................it sure beats the alternative -----------------Sixgun

Yep, Sixgun, I enjoy pokin' a lil' fun now an' then. (understatement of the decade). My last birthday (59th), my Dad called me and said, "Happy Birthday, OLD MAN!" I told him that was like the pot callin' the kettle black. He said "this might be my last chance and I wanted to make sure he had the opportunity to say 'Congradulations' for makin' it." He said he'd planned on telling me that on my 60th, but... then said the most prophetic words I'd ever hear him utter... "I'm getting tired, ain't sure I'll make it."

Yep, the alternative might not be avoidable, but I'll just put it off as long as possible. As I hope my friends can also.

[Ray Newman]

OK ol' Pharts. Can any of you remember;

RAGG MOPP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyANRiqzfio

Spike Jones "And The Winner Is...Feedlebomb" -- a "song" about a horse race.
http://www.tuxjunction.net/spikejones.htm

[JohndeFresno]

Spike Jones "And The Winner Is...Feedlebomb" -- a "song" about a horse race.
http://www.tuxjunction.net/spikejones.htm

Yup - I remember it better than the owner of the website that you cited.

'Cuz it was "Beetlebomb," not "Feedlebomb!"

I remember hearing Spike Jones on the radio and then seeing him later on B/W TV, along with Pinky Lee, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Imogen Coca, George Burns and Gracie Allen - that was before Red Skelton (I think) and Jackie Gleason.

Y'all are a bunch of youngsters.

[OJ]

This fuzzy faced kid was our Assistant Battalion Surgeon for our Marine unit in 1949 - even claimed to have enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1943 as a cadet to be a navigator on a B24 -



As luck would have it, he seems to have matured (OK - aged)



He still has friends who share happy hour with and mooch from him -



Now, what were us youngsters talking about ????

[Doc Hudson]

This fuzzy faced kid was our Assistant Battalion Surgeon for our Marine unit in 1949 - even claimed to have enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1943 as a cadet to be a navigator on a B24 -



As luck would have it, he seems to have matured (OK - aged)



He still has friends who share happy hour with and mooch from him -



Now, what were us youngsters talking about ????

Remember what that first Marine told you back in Tunstall's Tavern just after you were sworn in?

"That ain't the way we did it in the Old Corps!"