You Know You Are Old When

[Fuddyduddy1952]

This is what I found out the older I get (I'm 72)...I'm amazed and surprised when things go RIGHT not wrong. Recent example: my wife & I are supposed to attend a wedding soon in Europe and need passports. We go to our local Post Office & make appointment. Of course, that doesn't work out so make another. Wife needs a birth certificate (she has adoption papers, no birth record)...so I pay $××× expedited order with overnight shipping which we just received 4 days later (overnight???)...they spelled her name wrong.
I saved a copy of email proving I spelled it right. So I call...now I jump through six hoops. They say "a supervisor Mr. Xxx Xxxxx will call you within the hour". Fifty minutes later I call..."he will call you right away"...no call and they're closed. So I call Virginia state department of vital statistics, open 24 hours. I'm on hold 48 minutes and!...they answer and immediately hang up €&#@%&!!!!!

 

[Oaktree]

As a kid I remember my parents having get togethers in the summer.
The blue smoke came out of the windows with all the smokers inside.
Us kids survived OK.

When I was a kid I used to get a really bad case of bronchitis every winter. Probably missed a week+ of school, was so bad I couldn't take 10 steps without being out of breath. Was more than a little concerned first year of college...school I went to didn't have dorms, so I just got a furnished room in town. As it turned out, no problems that winter, or any time since. Gotta attribute it to my mother's smoking.

When I was a teen, I thought Monte Python was the funniest movie I ever saw!!! Had a great time at the theatre watching that movie.

Many year later I thought it would be great to show the movie to my kids. “You won’t stop laughing” I said.

Well - it didn’t work as planned. They thought it was “dumb”.

I discovered their tv show in the mid 70s and thought it was hilarious. Somewhere I got a DVD of one of their movies maybe 15 years ago and played it for my wife. She could only endure maybe 20 minutes of it she thought it was so lame. I still found it was funny.

 

[ultrarunner]

This is what I found out the older I get (I'm 72)...I'm amazed and surprised when things go RIGHT not wrong. Recent example: my wife & I are supposed to attend a wedding soon in Europe and need passports. We go to our local Post Office & make appointment. Of course, that doesn't work out so make another. Wife needs a birth certificate (she has adoption papers, no birth record)...so I pay $××× expedited order with overnight shipping which we just received 4 days later (overnight???)...they spelled her name wrong.
I saved a copy of email proving I spelled it right. So I call...now I jump through six hoops. They say "a supervisor Mr. Xxx Xxxxx will call you within the hour". Fifty minutes later I call..."he will call you right away"...no call and they're closed. So I call Virginia state department of vital statistics, open 24 hours. I'm on hold 48 minutes and!...they answer and immediately hang up €&#@%&!!!!!

It took congress woman Dianne Feinstein intervention to clear up a passport issue 14 weeks in.

Within 48 hours hand delivered to the house.

 

[masseyrider]

Went shopping this afternoon.
Didn't make a list, I was sure to remember what I was going for.
Came home with two full bags but not one of the 3 main items I went for.
I blame it on the neighbour for tagging along last minute and distracting me.
Had a little nap in the recliner and woke up with clear memory of the forgotten items.
Off to the store I go again.
Onions
dark rye bread
sour cream
onions
dark rye bread
sour cream
onions
dark rye bread
sour cream
onions
dark rye bread
sour cream...

 

[BravoXray]

I have an app called Out of Milk on my phone, which I enter what ever I need at the grocery store. Works great for me.

 

[newbury]

I keep these things called "pencils" and what we call "paper". Very useful. And they work without batteries.

 

[masseyrider]

I keep these things called "pencils" and what we call "paper". Very useful. And they work without batteries.

How could I forget Onions, dark rye bread... something else?

 

[masseyrider]

I have an app called Out of Milk on my phone, which I enter what ever I need at the grocery store. Works great for me.

I can't remember onions, dark rye bread and... something else.
How am I going to ape something?

 

[bigtiller]

Went shopping this afternoon.
Didn't make a list, I was sure to remember what I was going for.
Came home with two full bags but not one of the 3 main items I went for.
I blame it on the neighbour for tagging along last minute and distracting me.
Had a little nap in the recliner and woke up with clear memory of the forgotten items.
Off to the store I go again.
Onions
dark rye bread
sour cream
onions
dark rye bread
sour cream
onions
dark rye bread
sour cream
onions
dark rye bread
sour cream...

Your shopping list is different than mine;
weld lens
threaded inserts
steel stakes
1/2" rebar
picture frame
diesel fuel
homer tool box

 

[stuckmotor]

When you confuse Milli Vanilli with Vanilla Ice.

 

[jyoutz]

When you confuse Milli Vanilli with Vanilla Ice.

Who?

 

[WinterDeere]

When you confuse Milli Vanilli with Vanilla Ice.

Who?

Both hit peak popularity about 35 years ago, with more in common than you'd think. I was never a fan of either, but being an MTV watcher in my late-teens at the time, they were unavoidable.

Both are good examples of guys who had their careers ruined by letting record executives push them around. Milli Vanilli for allowing their management to convince them to lip sync their live performances, and Vanilla Ice for following his management's advice to deny sampling the Bowie/Queen Under Pressure riff, to avoid having to pay royalties on it.

I really don't know much about Milli Vanilli, I hear they really were terrible singers, but wasn't a fan so I guess I don't really know. Vanilla Ice started doing a home improvement show about ten years ago, and I caught some bits of it, wasn't terrible. Seemed like a good guy who just got all the wrong advice as a teen performer.

 

[masseyrider]

Your shopping list is different than mine;
weld lens
threaded inserts
steel stakes
1/2" rebar
picture frame
diesel fuel
homer tool box

I was going to have pickled herring with new potatoes for dinner.
The weld lens would get in the way.

 

[MossRoad]

I keep these things called "pencils" and what we call "paper". Very useful. And they work without batteries.

My wife and I share a notepad note on our iphones for a grocery list. We both add to it whenever we think of something. If we don't, we'll forget it later.

 

[WinterDeere]

My wife and I share a notepad note on our iphones for a grocery list. We both add to it whenever we think of something. If we don't, we'll forget it later.

Same. But training my wife to actually look at the list has been somewhat of an uphill battle.

 

[MossRoad]

Same. But training my wife to actually look at the list has been somewhat of an uphill battle.

I just keep adding:
Cookies
Milk
Cookies
Milk
Cookies
Snack cakes
Cookies
Milk

Eventually they show up in the pantry and fridge.

 

[newbury]

My wife and I share a notepad note on our iphones for a grocery list. We both add to it whenever we think of something. If we don't, we'll forget it later.

For a grocery list we share one on the refrigerator.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

We simply go up & down each isle and buy more than we need then back home discover we forgot the milk.
We used to have a list then leave it at home on the coffee table which reminds me I need coffee.

 

[Jstpssng]

We simply go up & down each isle and buy more than we need then back home discover we forgot the milk.
We used to have a list then leave it at home on the coffee table which reminds me I need coffee.

The last time I bought coffee it was so expensive that I'm thinking about dumping it in Boston Harbor and drinking tea.

 

[jyoutz]

The last time I bought coffee it was so expensive that I'm thinking about dumping it in Boston Harbor and drinking tea.

No coffee? Sac religious