You Know You Are Old When

[bigtiller]

How many basin wrenches have you purchased in your lifetime?

Just one, but after using it once, I hid it really good. I doubt I will ever find it.

 

[seville009]

 

[ultrarunner]

They let children on airplanes back then?

They let me at 4 years of age fly to Europe… still remember it well and no airline comes close to PanAm for me… VIP all the way.

 

[MoKelly]

They let me at 4 years of age fly to Europe… still remember it well and no airline comes close to PanAm for me… VIP all the way.

I flew El Al once. One of those planes with the upstairs where we were seated.

Unbelievable service and, there was 100% zero doubt on security. Zero doubt. Those folks were trained and serious.

It was amazing.

 

[orezok]

There are fewer and fewer but they cast a long shadow

 

[Williy]

When you can remember some of the old bands
Harry Roy, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Bob Burke
Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Cousin Fuzzy & his
cousins was polka band Wisconsin then Bert Kaempfert Wonderland by Night, Percy Faith Theme from a Summer Place, Ray Conniff Somewhere my Love
My favorite night show was Johnny Carson
Damm now I feel like I belong in a measum

willy

 

[Sigarms]

Yeah, uh, no it won't. But for the most part, it will feel very familiar and it will work.

Working with a 2000 or so Adobe pro vs 2020 Adobe pro feels like I'm learning to walk all over again as a baby. Everything that I've been use to has changed.

Yes, functions are on the computer are pretty much the same, but some of the newer software is like "wow".

 

[stuckmotor]

You know you're getting old when:
You remember riding in a six story elevator with an elevator operator.

 

[MoKelly]

You know you're getting old when:
You remember riding in a six story elevator with an elevator operator.

now that brings up memories.

You are so right. I remember they had a uniform and sat on a small stool pressing the floor buttons.

 

[scootr]

now that brings up memories.

You are so right. I remember they had a uniform and sat on a small stool pressing the floor buttons.

Sounds like he Unions got involved... a stool? When I was a boy they stood 8 hrs a day and held the doors for old people.

 

[newbury]

Yep. I found a couple in my dad's tools after he passed. Didn't know what they were for.
Lost them.
Needed them.
Bought one.
Used it.
Lost it.
Needed one.
Bought one.
Used it.
Lost it.
Needed one.
Bought one.
Found at least 3 in my garage.

Don't you hate it when all of your tools of a certain type decide to go on vacation then later, after you've bought yet another, they come back, in a group, all to one place.
My measuring tapes used to do that.

 

[scootr]

I keep about 4 measuring tapes around so I can always find one...somewhere.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

For me it seems to be caulking guns.

I use them so infrequently, I must have bought 10-12 of them over the years. Last time we moved, I think I found 3 or 4 of them.

Finally got around to recaulking a shower fixture yesterday and I actually found 2 of them sitting side by side on a shelf in the garage (about right where they were "supposed" to be).

 

[scootr]

For me it seems to be caulking guns.

I use them so infrequently, I must have bought 10-12 of them over the years. Last time we moved, I think I found 3 or 4 of them.

Finally got around to recaulking a shower fixture yesterday and I actually found 2 of them sitting side by side on a shelf in the garage (about right where they were "supposed" to be).

Amazing !

 

[seville009]

When you know what this means…..

FREEBIRD !!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

When you know what this means…..

FREEBIRD !!

Older if you've ever said "23 skidoo".

 

[RobertEH]

I keep about 4 measuring tapes around so I can always find one...somewhere.

Mine always end up in a pile next to the chop saw....

 

[MossRoad]

For me it seems to be caulking guns.

I use them so infrequently, I must have bought 10-12 of them over the years. Last time we moved, I think I found 3 or 4 of them.

Finally got around to recaulking a shower fixture yesterday and I actually found 2 of them sitting side by side on a shelf in the garage (about right where they were "supposed" to be).

Yep. I have at least 3.

 

[MossRoad]

Older if you've ever said "23 skidoo".

I said that a while ago... in jest. I never heard it said in anything but old movies.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I got tired of looking and buying calking guns.. I hang them up now so they’re in plain sight.. I now have 5.. lol