You Know You Are Old When

[CalG]

Miss those days!!!

I always liked "Jets" cereal. Unsweetened oat puff balls. I could put sugar on myself!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Much of our grade school punishment for young to teenage boys made you stronger or tougher.
Rulers hit across the knuckles, standing with arms stretched out supporting a book in each hand, carrying supplies up from the basement to the third floor.

We had a really rough grade school teacher who was built and looked like Gomer Pyle's Sargeant Carter. She had five rulers held together with rubber bands and would bend your fingers back whacking your palm so hard your hand went numb.
I hit someone with a paper wad and she said "come HERE!". She bent my fingers back and just as that stack of rulers came down I jerked my hand free so she whacked her own hand!
Just as I thought she was going to kill me my friend spoke up saying "it was me who did it".
So he took the hand whack. Years later I saw him thanking him for what he did.

 

[WinterDeere]

We had a really rough grade school teacher who was built and looked like Gomer Pyle's Sargeant Carter. She had...

She?!?

 

[ultrarunner]

We still buy our milk in returnable glass jugs, 1/2 gallon. But we have a few local dairy farms that still have farm stores, selling their local milk products.

Still get my half gallon milk in glass…

 

[jyoutz]

Still get my half gallon milk in glass…

Haven’t seen milk in glass bottles in decades.

 

[CalG]

Haven’t seen milk in glass bottles in decades.

Hmm

We get it on bottles often, depends on which store we go to. We like the Co-op, but Hannifords will do.

 

[masscity]

Our school had a paddle in the Superintendents office, holes in it and it was called the board of education.

I never got whacked with one, but one time the English teacher tried to hit me with a ruler, I caught it, broke in half and gave it back to her.

 

[WinterDeere]

Haven’t seen milk in glass bottles in decades.

Come to Pennsylvania! Our number of small family-run dairy farms began to dwindle when the generations born before WW2 were retiring and selling off their farms, but we still have enough that it's very common to see those glass jugs in many of our stores. Many of the farms also have their own farm store, where they sell their own products (milk, produce, poultry, beef), as well as the products of usually a half a dozen other local farms. This increases as you head west from the Philadelphia - New York corridor.

 

[LouNY]

You might be older if you remember milk bottles like these and standing in line with a full one at the grocery checkout.

Found this one cleaning the shop.

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Recall getting milk in school in glass bottles with the little cardboard top that would pop out/off. Never bought any milk for a great many years used a mini milk can much of the time or reused juice bottles.

 

[WinterDeere]

Recall getting milk in school in glass bottles with the little cardboard top that would pop out/off. Never bought any milk for a great many years used a mini milk can much of the time or reused juice bottles.

15-25 years ago, was pretty friendly with the lady who ran one of our local dairy farm stores, her husband ran the farm itself. They did and still use those glass returnable bottles, and I remember her mentioning the state or the CDC were making it increasingly difficult for them to continue operations as they always had, requiring the purchase of new equipment and implementation of new processes that made it almost impossible to remain profitable. I got the sense that if they weren't already well-established and already approaching retirement, that they'd have never been able to afford to be in the business of direct retail.

Most of our local dairy farms sell to one of a half dozen larger dairy conglomerations, who combine and process their milk for modern packaging to stores.