You Know You Are Old When

[ultrarunner]

Received my real ID CA drivers license today. Dam thing says Senior Citizen across the top !
You know your old when your DL say old folk on it...

No kidding?

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

You know your old when you pull into a filling station and ask for Ethyl.

I worked at a service station when I was a teenager and used to pump ethyl. I worked with "Monkey", "Rat" & "Garbage". Never a dull moment, one day playing hide & seek with monkey I hid in the ice cooler. I heard coins drop in so I handed an ice bag to some lady on vacation who almost had heart failure. Burning trash in a barrel one evening it caught a shed full of tires on fire. The owner was trying to hose it down when I said "don't you have insurance"? Owner dropped the hose "Monkey! Rat! Bring lighter fluid!"

 

[WinterDeere]

I worked at a service station when I was a teenager and used to pump ethyl. I worked with "Monkey", "Rat" & "Garbage". Never a dull moment, one day playing hide & seek with monkey I hid in the ice cooler. I heard coins drop in so I handed an ice bag to some lady on vacation who almost had heart failure. Burning trash in a barrel one evening it caught a shed full of tires on fire. The owner was trying to hose it down when I said "don't you have insurance"? Owner dropped the hose "Monkey! Rat! Bring lighter fluid!"

I had some pretty good teen and 20's years, all sorts of havoc and mayhem. But there's no doubt about it, after all these stories, yours were better.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm not touching that with a 10' pole...

Smart man!!!

 

[Jstpssng]

I had some pretty good teen and 20's years, all sorts of havoc and mayhem. But there's no doubt about it, after all these stories, yours were better.

Sometimes I think he should start a thread of his stories. Then I think a minute, remembering the go-cart among others.
It makes me realize how lucky we are that he doesn't.

 

[goeduck]

I'm not touching that with a 10' pole...

Only Moss's wife should touch his stick shift.

 

[Oaktree]

My brother had a 1969 Chevelle SS with factory 4 on the floor and bench seat, you couldn’t put the seat all the way forward

Had a '71 Duster back in the day, 3 on the floor and bench seat. As long as my legs are, never had to worry about putting the seat all the way forward.
To this day, it's a rare compact/subcompact I can comfortably drive.

 

[ultrarunner]

I miss the 1970 340ci Dart with 4 spd… that and 70 340ci Baracuda with 4 spd would bring some good money today as California rust free cars.

Guess that would make me old.

The Roadrunner had the horn that mimic the cartoon roadrunner but the 69 sure went through fuel but the vacuum air scoop was always fun…

 

[MoKelly]

Thought of this today —- you are old if you remember going to a Blockbuster store to rent movies!

I drove by an old huge Blockbuster store this morning.

Now - like everything else it seems - it’s a health care related place!

 

[ultrarunner]

Aging population?

The last Block Buster is in Oregon and my local one is a very busy Pho eatery…