You Know You Are Old When

[Mendonsy]

If I go grocery shopping and forget my list, guaranteed I'll forget at least 3 items.

That's not so bad. I sometimes go shopping with my list and still forget 3 items!

 

[Jstpssng]

I used to buy four or five cups a day. I'm so annoyed at the currant cost that I might buy one cup a month.

This is Maxwell House for my percolator.
It was $10.99.

 

[BravoXray]

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

Eventually they show up in the pantry and fridge.

Yeah, I had to stop at Martin's this evening to get a new supply of chocolate chip cookies, I was out of them. I do however, limit myself to two cookies per day.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

That's not so bad. I sometimes go shopping with my list and still forget 3 items!

Yep, me too! Just did it a couple days ago....
The 3 items across the top of the list ..... wife asked about them when we were emptying the bags..... oops.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Speaking of cookies in the 60's there used to be these peanut butter cookies called "Gouchos". I think they put cocaine or something in them so they were addictive.
My Grandfather next door started with Airstream trailers in the 50s then later motor homes and every summer my brother and I traveled with grandparents from Mexico, US and Canada. Riding in his first RV I discovered Gouchos and ate a box a day along with 3 meals. Along the way they had to buy me larger size clothes as well as plenty of Gouchos.
Somewhere in the midwest we stopped at a carnival. I had to ride all the rides after soda and "carnival quisine" and I'm sure people wished I hadn't been up front.
My 4'11" Grandmother had trouble keeping up with us that hot day and in the evening we were back in the new RV with gold shag carpet when Grandma said "Wow am I pooped!" I looked down and asked her where she got the pink fuzzy slippers? Her shoes were completely covered with cotton candy and when she took them off she had stepped in elephant sh*t.
Lord knows how much weight those Gouchos had packed on and on return trip Grandad gave me a crewcut and back home my parents asked where I was and who was this fat kid?

 

[jyoutz]

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”.

Oh well.

I have a similar story. I used to watch the show F Troop as a kid and thought it was funny. When our sons were in high school we found some old episodes on an oldies channel and watched them. After the third episode, we changed the channel because all of us agreed that the show is dumb.

 

[masseyrider]

I have a similar story. I used to watch the show F Troop as a kid and thought it was funny. When our sons were in high school we found some old episodes on an oldies channel and watched them. After the third episode, we changed the channel because all of us agreed that the show is dumb.

Same with...
Beverly Hillbillies
I dream of Barbara Eden naked
Bewitched
Hogan's Heroes
My 3 sons
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction
McHale's Navy
and all the other silly comedies of the 60s.

 

[Jstpssng]

I do however, limit myself to two cookies per day

That's restraint!!! I don't keep anything in the house because it never lasts. I come home hungry and which doesn't need cooking just disappears.

 

[Oaktree]

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.

I try to avoid shopping with my wife whenever possible. I'm a guy, I get what I came for and leave. Like most women, she takes forever.

Everyone would hate me.... no coffee no nice. Even the dogs avoid me until after the second cup.

Never developed a taste for it. Smells nice, but can't stand the taste.

 

[WinterDeere]

Speaking of cookies in the 60's there used to be these peanut butter cookies called "Gouchos". I think they put cocaine or something in them so they were addictive.

Reminds me of Vienna Fingers. I never liked them, but could wipe out half a family pack (probably 60 cookies?) in a single sitting as a teen, when dipped in whole milk.

I've always had the same relationship with Oreos. Never liked them, I think the chocolate wafer is terrible, but damn... give me a glass of whole milk, and I can slam down a dozen Oreo Original cookies in the blink of an eye.

I'm a skinny guy, believe it or not. 6'-0" and 170 lb., just a high metabolism.