You Know You Are Old When

[newbury]

I turned 63 today. Happy Birthday folks!

Well belated congratulations youngster.

I can remember when all calls went through the operator. No dial phones in our area back then.

And in my case the calls also went thru a half dozen close neighbors on the party line. A few who could be counted on to pick up, make no noise, and listen in.

 

[Sigarms]

Old enough to remember breaking one of my mom's large wooden kitchen spoons when she hit me on the arm with it (don't remember the exact reasons why I got whacked,
but no doubt I deserved it ).

 

[MoKelly]

Old enough to remember breaking one of my mom's large wooden kitchen spoons when she hit me on the arm with it (don't remember the exact reasons why I got whacked,
but no doubt I deserved it ).

Oh my. That reminds me of the nuns who used to whack you with those wooden pointer sticks in school if you were misbehaving.

Ouch!

 

[scootr]

You know you are old if your remember watching Mel Brooks' Get Smart (with Don Adams) as the bumbling spy and sexy partner Barbara Feldon

 

[Sigarms]

Oh my. That reminds me of the nuns who used to whack you with those wooden pointer sticks in school if you were misbehaving.

Ouch!

My dad's 1946 Scred Heart School grad picture.

The ONLY thing he talked about was how mean the nuns were whacking your knuckles, particuarly if you spoke your native tongue in school instead of English.

What always amazed me was my dads family was dirt poor, yet they always had nice clothes to dress in for family pictures or anything of "importance"..

 

[MossRoad]

My truck is 1985

My cholesterol is 1985....

 

[MossRoad]

Old enough to remember breaking one of my mom's large wooden kitchen spoons when she hit me on the arm with it (don't remember the exact reasons why I got whacked,
but no doubt I deserved it ).

Wooden spoons are for mixing chocolate chip cookie dough. Wait till your father gets home.

 

[MossRoad]

Oh my. That reminds me of the nuns who used to whack you with those wooden pointer sticks in school if you were misbehaving.

Ouch!

I had a nun in 1st grade try to whack my hand on the desk with one of those because I was talking to a little girl next to me during class. I yanked my hand away, she missed, and the pointer broke in half. I said "HA! You missed!" She whacked me in the back of the head with the broken end. I got up and walked home.

 

[Sigarms]

Wooden spoons are for mixing chocolate chip cookie dough. Wait till your father gets home.

Oh, I got that to.

My dad's famous line... "there are two ways you can take it, stand there like a man and take it, or run around the house like a chicken with your head cut off, but either way, you're going to get it".

From what I remember, I generally ran around like a chicken with his head cut off

His other famous line... "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of this world" LOL

I swear, when I tell some stories of how my parents punished me, could sound like child abuse in todays times. Reality is I never considered myself abused, and what I got I deserved. Ironcially enough, I loved my parents dearly and I know they felt the same in return.

 

[Oaktree]

It was Ricky Nelson, Wake Up Little Susie.

Nope. Masseyrider had it right, it was the Everlys.