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If she asked you if you wanted one rather than just giving you one, then you aren't old enough yet to worry.jnyork wrote: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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Yeah you gotta love Juniors car lot, wish I had a few of them cars now, not to mention the salesladies he hadawp101 wrote:I've had guys at work ask me about phone numbers or passwords and my standard answer is BR549.
Hey, I was only 51 at the time!!Old Savage wrote:Hey, lighten up on the senior citizen menu crack.
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!COSteve wrote:If she asked you if you wanted one rather than just giving you one, then you aren't old enough yet to worry.jnyork wrote: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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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.
Soooooo, how WAS it riding around in "those"?Hobie wrote: 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!
Hey I resemble that remark. I just say it ain't the years its the mileage.Doc Hudson wrote: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.
That don't sound too bad.Modoc ED wrote:It won't be too much longer before the BATF&E will be classifying me as a "Curio and Relic"!!
I'm only 41, but I do that all the time at antique malls.COSteve wrote: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 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.Griff wrote: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!
heck, I'll go you one further than that.JReed wrote:Hey I resemble that remark. I just say it ain't the years its the mileage.
Now that is what maks you feel old!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!!
In other words you are supporting my long held contention:LeverBob wrote: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.
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Best to you all...
LB
You can get away with more BS if people think you are a little crazy.
Terry Murbach did not arrive on the Mayflower!Sixgun wrote: 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!Sixgun wrote: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
How about seeing more than one item in an antique store that were wedding gifts?COSteve wrote: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.
Ha! Ya like that Griff?Griff wrote: And when Sixgun started collecting, the Pennsylvania rifle was a new-fangled idea!![]()
1840s or 1940s?donw wrote: i remember seeing real u.s. cavalry troopers at ft riley ks in the late 40's...![]()
awp101 wrote:1840s or 1940s?donw wrote: i remember seeing real u.s. cavalry troopers at ft riley ks in the late 40's...![]()
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."Sixgun wrote:Ha! Ya like that Griff?Griff wrote:And when Sixgun started collecting, the Pennsylvania rifle was a new-fangled idea!![]()
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Yea, It ain't easy being old dudes like us, but.................it sure beats the alternative-----------------Sixgun
Yup - I remember it better than the owner of the website that you cited.Ray Newman wrote: Spike Jones "And The Winner Is...Feedlebomb" -- a "song" about a horse race.
http://www.tuxjunction.net/spikejones.htm
Remember what that first Marine told you back in Tunstall's Tavern just after you were sworn in?OJ wrote: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 -
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